Civil Rights Movement In Jack Canfield's A Letter Home
“One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Gandhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes” by Jack Canfield. In the two stories, Waiting for Dan, and A Letter Home, they talk about what the experience was either having a family member in one of the many movements or experiencing it first hand on a campus. In Waiting for Dan it is told from the wife’s point of view who is waiting for her husband to come back home from a Freedom Ride. In A Letter Home, this college student, Kara, is experiencing first hand a riot at her school, she is trying to tell her parents what
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In, Waiting for Dan, the husband, Dan, leaves so he can go help fight segregation. Dan’s thought process had been inclined to do so by believing that “the threat of violence would send the wrong message” (7). He wanted to ride the Freedom buses because he thought it would help send a peaceful message, over a riot. In, A Letter Home, the narrator, Kara, was experiencing a riot at her school, which she thought was wrong, yet she wrote of her experience when the National Guard came to her school with rifles. “Violence is not the answer to these problems” (7). This was also including the Vietnam War of which many people at her school had been against including her, for which she did not see the point of why these people needed to use violence as a way to help solve …show more content…
In Waiting for Dan, the wife is not first-hand at what is going on, within the Freedom Ride buses or anything besides hearing a bit of news. It is also written in more of a story way. In A Letter Home, it is a first-hand experience of what that narrator had to go through between the riots on the streets and the National Guard shooting at a crowd of people. A Letter Home, is also written in a letter format because it was the author writing to her parents because of how emotional it would have been to say it on the
In, Waiting for Dan, the husband, Dan, leaves so he can go help fight segregation. Dan’s thought process had been inclined to do so by believing that “the threat of violence would send the wrong message” (7). He wanted to ride the Freedom buses because he thought it would help send a peaceful message, over a riot. In, A Letter Home, the narrator, Kara, was experiencing a riot at her school, which she thought was wrong, yet she wrote of her experience when the National Guard came to her school with rifles. “Violence is not the answer to these problems” (7). This was also including the Vietnam War of which many people at her school had been against including her, for which she did not see the point of why these people needed to use violence as a way to help solve …show more content…
In Waiting for Dan, the wife is not first-hand at what is going on, within the Freedom Ride buses or anything besides hearing a bit of news. It is also written in more of a story way. In A Letter Home, it is a first-hand experience of what that narrator had to go through between the riots on the streets and the National Guard shooting at a crowd of people. A Letter Home, is also written in a letter format because it was the author writing to her parents because of how emotional it would have been to say it on the