Rhetorical Analysis Of Martin Luther King's Letter To Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr was an incredible person, leader and writer; he fought for what is right, racial equality. During one of his protest in Birmingham Alabama he was arrested for parading without a permit, it was during that time he spent in jail that he used the technique of writing in form of a rhetorical triangle. The rhetorical triangle was created by Aristotle in 4th century BCE it consist of logos which is logic, pathos which is emotion, and ethos which is ethics. King uses this technique very well to write what we know now as the Letter from Birmingham Jail.
In the beginning of Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail, King quickly establishes his role by directing the letter to “my dear fellow clergymen” by stating that …show more content…
King writes about mothers and father being lynched by mobs and brother and sister being drowned. Policemen doing anything from beating to killing the Negros. King even takes the letter to a more personal level and begins to write about his own family. King explains how he has found himself without words to try and explain to his young daughter why she cannot go to a theme park that is being advertised and continues to write how his daughter was heartbroken, King also writes how the children begin to question why the white people are so mean to the colored people. King uses all those examples and emotions to get to the reader to a more personal and accomplishes by having the reader feel what he feels.
Martin Luther King Jr. as mentioned before was a great leader. Kings letter from Birmingham jail has been read and studied by many people, his use of the rhetorical triangle is one of the best. King captures logic, ethics and emotion in a way that draws the readers in and makes them understand what he is writing