Coralie Casimir
A.P English
Mr. George
October 7, 2009
Outline

Outline
Ethos:
1. Doctor Martin Luther King tries to establish his character for this letter by drawing similarities between him and the clergymen.
“My dearest Fellow Clergymen” (738).
There he is alluding to a bound between himself and the clergymen. The word “fellow” strengths the clause, to give him the credibility; to make the appeal to them.
2. In his letter he does not try to establish his character by what he has accomplished or his PhD, which would also qualify him to make an appeal to the clergymen.
Pathos and Logos
1. Martin Luther King in parts of his speech mixes to appeal really well to convey certain emotion and also lay a foundation for his argument.
For example the middle paragraph in page 742. In this paragraph he his telling the clergymen why he can wait any longer. First he lists many examples injustice and how it affects his children, wife, mother and himself. All through this he was able the show the frustration and the exhaustion of the black and community.
2. The thing that Martin Luther King was able to do well was to convey emotion in his speech. He was able to accomplish this through his incredible diction and his tremendous choice of syntax.
Logos:
1. Martin Luther King brings the logic for his argument from outside sources. People the clergymen would tend to respect, due to the brilliance of the teachings.
For example: Martin Buber in his relationships page 743 second paragraph. He say in Buber would consider segregation to be an I-it relationship. Where the people are treaty other peoples as object or as less then them. Martin Luther King feels like the status should be elevated to I-thou where both parties have a level of respect for each other.
Saint Augustine and the unjust laws
2. He also takes a stab at the church feeling that it has no accomplished what set out to do.
3. Also when he talk about the extremist on page 751 in a way drawing similarities between him and those famous people.
Syntax and Diction
1. Syntax:
Parallel Structure: Bottom of page 747, second paragraph of 751
Rhetorical Questions: Bottom of page 747
Periodic Sentence: Middle paragraph of 742
Juxtaposition: Top of 742
2. Diction:
Martin Luther King uses a certain aggression in his word to prove a point. We can see this in the adjective he uses to describe the word segregation.
Disease of segregation
Stinging darks of segregation
The plague of segregation
He uses his word to assert an idea by creating vivid image in the readers’ mind which also comes with some kind of emotion.