University of Michigan Letter from Birmingham Jail Rhetorical Analysis
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Look at the following quotes from “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
“I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action.”
“I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.”
Explain how one of the previous quotes can be connected to one or more of the following aspects of the Rhetorical Situation:
Writer and context
Audience
Purpose
Look at the following quotes from “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
“I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens to Birmingham”
“Your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstration.”
“Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their “˜thus saith the Lord’ far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town.”
Explain how one of the previous quotes can be connected to one or more of the means of persuasion (logos, pathos, or ethos).
2nd part of the question is (What argument in King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” do you find most compelling? Why)

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