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I need help

Answer 1

O.o who?

Answer 2

anybody @Kristen17

Answer 3

Hmm okay well... I'm not a him.. but maybe I can help?

Answer 4

okay

Answer 5

Psst you kinda have to say what you need help with...

Answer 6

Thesis Statement Worksheet
Instructions: Copy and paste the following text into a document or create a document that contains the same information.
Write a basic thesis statement and a revised thesis statement in response to the writing prompt.
Writing Prompt
What stylistic elements does King use to influence his readers? After reading and analyzing "Letter from Birmingham Jail," write an essay in which you answer the question and analyze structure and language in his text, providing three or more examples to illustrate and clarify your analysis. What conclusion can you draw about the power of this text?
1. Write your Basic Thesis Statement in the space below.
2. Go through the Thesis Statement Essentials Checklist. It is okay if you are not able to check off some of these characteristics.

_ Is your thesis statement one sentence?
_ Does it answer the question?
_ Does it use specific words?
_ Does it take a stand? Could someone have a different interpretation?
_ Does it answer “Why does this matter?” or “So what?”
3. Based on the checklist above, revise your thesis statement so that it has all of the above qualities and include it here.

Answer 7

Woah O.o

Answer 8

so

Answer 9

Okay, so let's start small. The question you are suppose to answer is "What conclusions can you draw about the power of this text?" Right?

Answer 10

yes

Answer 11

Okay. Let me pull up the story real quick.

Answer 12

i will d;o f;or u

Answer 13

Ok?

Answer 14

Writing Prompt

What stylistic elements does King use to influence his readers? After reading and analyzing "Letter from Birmingham Jail," write an essay in which you answer the question and analyze structure and language in his text, providing three or more examples to illustrate and clarify your analysis. What conclusion can you draw about the power of this text?

Answer 15

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Birmingham City Jail
April 16, 1963
My dear Fellow Clergymen,
1 While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine goodwill and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

Feedback: This paragraph establishes King's purpose for writing the letter: he wishes to address the criticisms of his fellow clergymen.
2 In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: (1) Collection of the facts to determine whether injustices are alive; (2) Negotiation; (3) Self-purification; and (4) Direct action. We have gone through all of these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying of the fact that racial injustice engulfs (swallows up) this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of police brutality is known in every section of this country. Its unjust treatment of Negroes in the courts is a notorious (well-known) reality. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than any city in this nation. These are the hard, brutal, and unbelievable facts. On the basis of these conditions Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation.

Feedback: This paragraph is a response to one of the criticisms. King explains the steps he and his followers had taken and establishes why they chose Birmingham for their protest.
3 I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say wait. But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity ; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people …—then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience.

Feedback: This paragraph is a response to one of the criticisms. It depicts the many instances of inequality that individuals in the African-American community experience.
4 I was arrested Friday on a charge of parading without a permit. Now there is nothing wrong with an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade, but when the ordinance is used to preserve segregation and to deny citizens the First Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and peaceful protest, then it becomes unjust.

Feedback: This paragraph explains King's personal situation; he broke the law by parading without a permit.
5 I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Feedback: King moves to a philosophical discussion of law and justice. He uses this paragraph to assert that an individual who breaks an unjust law (such as one that does not let people exercise promised rights) is actually respectful of law and justice.
6 We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. But I am sure that, if I had lived in Germany during that time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal. If I lived in a communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

Feedback: This paragraph uses a historical example to show that sometimes laws that are "legal" are not just or right, and that they should be disobeyed for the good of the people.
7 I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and that when they fail to do this they become dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress … we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

Feedback: This paragraph reminds the clergymen that laws exist to establish justice for all. King reminds them that he and other activists are not causing the problems in society; they are merely showing that the problems exist so that something can be done about them.
8 We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy, and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Feedback: This paragraph challenges King's audience to act NOW.
9 I have travelled the length and breadth of Alabama, Mississippi and all the other southern states. On sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings I have looked at her beautiful churches with their spires pointing heavenward. I have beheld the impressive outlay of her massive religious education buildings. Over and over again I have found myself asking: "Who worships here? Who is their God? Where were their voices when the lips of Governor Barnett dripped with words of interposition and nullification ? Where were their voices of support when tired, bruised, and weary Negro men and women decided to rise from the dark dungeons of complacency to the bright hills of creative protest?"

Feedback: This paragraph directly addresses the Church. It points out the irony of the beautiful churches who were supposed to fight for justice but who were silent about racial inequality.
10 There was a time when the Church was very powerful … In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Wherever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators." Things are different now. The contemporary Church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch-supporter of the status quo. Far from being disturbed by the presence of the Church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the Church's silent and often vocal sanction of things as they are.

Feedback: This paragraph reminds the clergymen that the Church can be a powerful force in the community if they stop being silent about racial inequalities.
11 Never before have I written a letter this long (or should I say a book?). I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else is there to do when you are alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell other than write long letters, think strange thoughts, and pray long prayers?

Feedback: This paragraph reflects on the length of the letter and the injustice of King's circumstances.
12 Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Feedback: This paragraph closes the letter with King's hopes for the future.
13 Yours for the cause of
Peace and Brotherhood,
14 Martin Luther King, Jr.
[ Close ]

Answer 16

What stylistic elements does King use to influence his readers? After reading and analyzing "Letter from Birmingham Jail," write an essay in which you answer the question and analyze structure and language in his text, providing three or more examples to illustrate and clarify your analysis. What conclusion can you draw about the power of this text?

Answer 17

Starting with elements. What elements do you see immediately?

Answer 18

I what kind of elements

Answer 19

Umm elements are things like, similes, metaphors, imagery, illusions, any literary device. Those are the things you need to look for in the story to answer the first question.

Answer 20

can you help me

Answer 21

Sure... to start, he uses a ton of rhetorical questions to get his point across. From the examples I gave you, do you see any of them in the article/story?

Answer 22

where

Answer 23

Where what?

Answer 24

the article use simlie

Answer 25

@Phoenix515

Answer 26

Yes very good. Usually an essay has about 5 paragraphs. Intro, 3 body, and a conclusion. So about three elements should work. So far you have rhetorical questions and similes. Another one that you could use is imagery. When he says things like, "On sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings I have looked at her beautiful churches with their spires pointing heavenward." It helps you to picture what was going on. He uses this element quite a bit.

Answer 27

So I can put Martin Luther King use rhetorical questions,similes and imagery stylistics elements.

Answer 28

In the essay yes. But you need to write a clear thesis about the power of the text. Since it's part of your prompt.

Answer 29

oh so I need to put the answer into the essay

Answer 30

Yes. You could start out with your thesis, then say something like, "Martin Luther King shows this power through similes, rhetorical questions and imagery. We can take a closer look at each element. (next paragraph) First off, King uses....blahblahblah"

Answer 31

okay I will do it and can you look over it

Answer 32

Sure:) Just post it in here when you're done and I'll read over it.

Answer 33

Ok a Stylistic elements are inherently in how an author writes; things like word choice, sentence construction, character motifs, etc. Kind of like his style of writing.

Answer 34

alright thanks kristen

Answer 35

No problem.

Answer 36

@Kristen17 Hi

Answer 37

Hello

Answer 38

Im still reading the essay

Answer 39

Mkay?

Answer 40

writing

Answer 41

Ohh.. okay

Answer 42

Its this a simile I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

Answer 43

No I don't think it is:/

Answer 44

Yeah im trying to find one in the letter

Answer 45

Okay

Answer 46

A simile is a rhetorical figure expressing comparison or likeness that directly compares two things through some connective word such as like, as, so, than, or a verb such as resembles.

Answer 47

Do think there's any in the letter

Answer 48

I'm sure there is

Answer 49

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Birmingham City Jail
April 16, 1963
My dear Fellow Clergymen,
1 While confined here in the Birmingham City Jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine goodwill and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

Feedback: This paragraph establishes King's purpose for writing the letter: he wishes to address the criticisms of his fellow clergymen.
2 In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: (1) Collection of the facts to determine whether injustices are alive; (2) Negotiation; (3) Self-purification; and (4) Direct action. We have gone through all of these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying of the fact that racial injustice engulfs (swallows up) this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of police brutality is known in every section of this country. Its unjust treatment of Negroes in the courts is a notorious (well-known) reality. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than any city in this nation. These are the hard, brutal, and unbelievable facts. On the basis of these conditions Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation.

Feedback: This paragraph is a response to one of the criticisms. King explains the steps he and his followers had taken and establishes why they chose Birmingham for their protest.
3 I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say wait. But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity ; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people …—then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience.

Feedback: This paragraph is a response to one of the criticisms. It depicts the many instances of inequality that individuals in the African-American community experience.
4 I was arrested Friday on a charge of parading without a permit. Now there is nothing wrong with an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade, but when the ordinance is used to preserve segregation and to deny citizens the First Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and peaceful protest, then it becomes unjust.

Feedback: This paragraph explains King's personal situation; he broke the law by parading without a permit.
5 I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Feedback: King moves to a philosophical discussion of law and justice. He uses this paragraph to assert that an individual who breaks an unjust law (such as one that does not let people exercise promised rights) is actually respectful of law and justice.
6 We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. But I am sure that, if I had lived in Germany during that time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal. If I lived in a communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

Feedback: This paragraph uses a historical example to show that sometimes laws that are "legal" are not just or right, and that they should be disobeyed for the good of the people.
7 I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and that when they fail to do this they become dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress … we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

Feedback: This paragraph reminds the clergymen that laws exist to establish justice for all. King reminds them that he and other activists are not causing the problems in society; they are merely showing that the problems exist so that something can be done about them.
8 We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy, and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Feedback: This paragraph challenges King's audience to act NOW.
9 I have travelled the length and breadth of Alabama, Mississippi and all the other southern states. On sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings I have looked at her beautiful churches with their spires pointing heavenward. I have beheld the impressive outlay of her massive religious education buildings. Over and over again I have found myself asking: "Who worships here? Who is their God? Where were their voices when the lips of Governor Barnett dripped with words of interposition and nullification ? Where were their voices of support when tired, bruised, and weary Negro men and women decided to rise from the dark dungeons of complacency to the bright hills of creative protest?"

Feedback: This paragraph directly addresses the Church. It points out the irony of the beautiful churches who were supposed to fight for justice but who were silent about racial inequality.
10 There was a time when the Church was very powerful … In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Wherever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators." Things are different now. The contemporary Church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch-supporter of the status quo. Far from being disturbed by the presence of the Church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the Church's silent and often vocal sanction of things as they are.

Feedback: This paragraph reminds the clergymen that the Church can be a powerful force in the community if they stop being silent about racial inequalities.
11 Never before have I written a letter this long (or should I say a book?). I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else is there to do when you are alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell other than write long letters, think strange thoughts, and pray long prayers?

Feedback: This paragraph reflects on the length of the letter and the injustice of King's circumstances.
12 Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Feedback: This paragraph closes the letter with King's hopes for the future.
13 Yours for the cause of
Peace and Brotherhood,
14 Martin Luther King, Jr.
[ Close ]

Answer 50

@Kristen17

Answer 51

I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

Answer 52

Its in the 1st paragraph...

Answer 53

I put that early but she said thats not a simile.

Answer 54

I said I don't think it is... I wasn't sure

Answer 55

oh whts a rhetorical in the story

Answer 56

@Kristen17

Answer 57

A Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the capability of writers or speakers that attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. So find a sentence that matches this....

Answer 58

A rhetorical is something like, if I were to say, "You don't expect me to go along with that crazy scheme, do you?” It seems like they expect an answer but they are just trying to make a point.

Answer 59

Is that apart of the letter

Answer 60

The example I gave? No, not at all. That was a random example.

Answer 61

Is this good .
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the bleakness of corroding despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience.

Answer 62

What is that for? Imagery?

Answer 63

oh thats good for imagery

Answer 64

.......

Answer 65

Um okay then?

Answer 66

I need to find rhetorical

Answer 67

Rhetorical questions.... simply put... find some questions in the story...(and there are a lot of them) that are meant to make a point.

Answer 68

If I lived in a communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

Answer 69

how about this ^

Answer 70

As a rhetorical question?

Answer 71

Yes

Answer 72

@Kristen17

Answer 73

?

Answer 74

Sorry if this sounds rude, but rhetorical questions... are well...questions.

Answer 75

oh okay your not being rude you are helping me out

Answer 76

Okay cool:)

Answer 77

what is a different element I can use because that one is hard

Answer 78

Umm basically any that you can find?

Answer 79

Over and over again I have found myself asking: "Who worships here? Who is their God?

Answer 80

^rhetorical question.

Answer 81

yay thanks

Answer 82

No problem:)

Answer 83

After reading and analyzing "Letter from Birmingham Jail," write an essay in which you answer the question and analyze structure and language in his text, providing three or more examples to illustrate and clarify your analysis. What conclusion can you draw about the power of this text? Now I think we on conclusion part

Answer 84

@Kristen17

Answer 85

hey

Answer 86

@Kristen17

Answer 87

@JBFlyBoiTv can you help me? i need the thesis statement for the essay..