Analysis Of Angie Thomas 'Letter From Birmingham Jail'

In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, the departed Martian Luther King, Jr. thoroughly writes to a group of Christian clergymen about his and his community’s reasons behind their insistent push for African American’s rights. At this point in time, segregation plagued the Southern area of the United States of America, and was being combated by black activists. MLK understood that a majority of white people were oblivious to the cries for basic human rights; he wrote about such in his letter to a group of white men. He desperately hoped the country, mainly white moderates, would understand that there needs to be a fundamental change in the country’s morals. Not only does the change need to happen, but it needs to happen now, not later. All he wanted was for more people to notice the injustice happening in the supposed great country of freedom. The residue of the separation that once took place in America still lies thick across the country, coating neighborhoods like dust on a coffee table. In the book The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas, the narrator of the story, Starr, faces living with the consequences from the mistakes of the past. Starr is an African American teenage girl who lives in a predominantly black community, yet attends a school that draws …show more content…
However, there’s a major fracture in the way Starr lives her life. Since she is a minority in her school, she tends to feel like her life at home, which is principally surrounded by black people, is odd and different in an unpleasant way. Even when Starr is a witness to a friend’s brutal murder by a police officer, she hides that part from her peers at HIGH SCHOOL NAME. Starr is being placed in a corner, limiting what she thinks she can feel and what she tells her friends. The truth is that Starr lacks the flexibility and mobility that her current situation provides, to be