Letter from Birmingham Jail
Topic: Letter from Birmingham Jail. Write a 4-page essay typed, double-spaced, and titled, on the prompt below. Develop a clear and controlling thesis and support it with evidence from the texts properly cited in MLA format. Paper format guidelines include Times New Roman 12, 1” margins, etc. (see Essay Guidelines in Course Information). Please underline your thesis.
Use any of the following or other criteria in your analysis: purpose; content; voice/tone; the point of view; audience; motive; author’s background; diction (vocabulary) and syntax; appeals to the reader (pathos – emotion, logos – logic, ethos – credibility); organization/structure; figurative language (symbols, metaphors, similes, imagery, personification); allusion; anaphora; examples/facts/statistics; sensory imagery.
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” ML King (the main focus of your essay) In this synthesis essay, you will analyze two readings, the main one being Letter from Birmingham Jail, above, plus one of the readings below. Your thesis will address the authors’ purpose and audience. Are they similar or different? Analyze the commonalities or differences in the content (issues discussed) and argument (rhetorical devices) used by the authors to bring the audience to their point of view on social justice.
In other words, how or why is each author persuasive, or not? Provide textual evidence properly cited in MLA format. Choose one of the following “Black Men and Social Space” Staples “Harlem” Hughes “Let America be America Again” Hughes “The Elements of San Joaquin” Soto. For more information on social just check this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice
