tatements mentioned in clergymen’s letter, and makes a strong and firm counterattack. The questions he answers include:1) Why are the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham?2) Why do we take direct actions, instead of negotiation first?3) Why now?4) Why should we show willingness to break laws?5) The critic of white moderate.6) Precipitate violence7) Is our action extreme?Among these influent and powerful answers, the words that talk about breaking laws show an excellent organization and combination of identify and example, cause and effect. In the paragraph 14, King connects the problem of breaking laws to the just laws and unjust laws. In the next paragraph, he defines the difference between just and unjust laws. Then he raises several examples to further explain his principle. Linking by words” let us consider a more concrete example”(King 408), he gives a vivid analogy. After that, he explains his idea from another aspect beginning with “let me give another explanation”(King 408). Next, he uses the format of “It is not…but…” to refute some deny or doubt. In the following two paragraphs, he raises a couple of positive (the Boston Tea Party) and negative (Nazi German) examples in history to support his idea. In this section, there is a clear and complete processes of arrangement, which can be illustrated like these: surface problem real problem identify examples explanations refutes deny positive/negative examples (hopes). Besides the rigorous organization, we could not forget the powerful emotional words in the letter. It seems parallelism is King’s favorite writing style. He uses it times in different part of the letter to make a fluently increasing tone. But it is the one in paragraph 13th which is most strong and beautiful in this letter. He uses night “when” to fully express the sad situation o...
