King is simply putting segregation in the eyes of a child and showing the audience how it’s tearing the younger generation apart by teaching them how to hate those who are different from them. Through this scene the audience feels the complication and shame the father feels for his innocent daughter suffering consequences she has no right to receiving for just being herself. King goes into more depth of the struggle of being black by writing “When you take a cross country drive and find it …show more content…
This just expresses the hardships colored people constantly go through because they’re being looked down upon. King uses words and phrases like “no motel will accept you”, “nagging”, and “humiliated” to express to the audience the hardships and painful life of colored people. His intentions are that when they see what blacks suffered through it’ll make them feel terrible and they’ll stop continuing hurting people. So the use of the pathos in the letter keeps the audience in tune with their emotions which helps them sympathize with the equal rights movement.
King uses a great amount of pathos throughout his letter. It’s constantly seen in the beginning, middle, and end so the audience can feel the struggle and pain of blacks so they can be more inclined to create change along with equality for everyone. In the beginning his use of pathos makes …show more content…
When he writes “We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom. Abused and scorned though we may be, our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America” (272) the tone is clearly patriotic. It’s patriotic because he believes in the Declaration of Independence when it says “that all men are created equal, and that are endowed by their creator to certain unalienable rights such as life, love, and the pursuit of happiness”. King feels important enough to include him and all blacks in this decree and that’s why he peacefully fights because he knows what he so rightfully deserves. The audience should understand why King wants to include himself in something the nation was built on because they’re all Americans therefore want to be include in the big “American Dream”. The thought of being included in something bigger gives the sense of importance and reverence. Even with the tough obstacles he feels that they can all get through it. This tone makes the audience also want to rally with him because the statement was made by one of our founding Fathers of America and any contrary thoughts against him sounds pretty rebellious. So King just wants them to feel the way he does about living in a great country with great laws that just need to be followed. He goes on to express more patriotism by writing “If the