f black people, in order to emphasize “…difficult to wait” (King 407). It is so strong and filled with emotion that my eyes get wet when the first time I read these. The second personalize (“you”) actually drag readers into African American’s sad situations. It forces reader to taste, to feel, and to experience what blacks went through. Neither the first person nor the third person can get as much sympathy as it gets. The readers are not just reading the letter; they follow King to climb a ladder of emotion. They become more and more sad and angry, when reaching the peak, they face the statement:” We can’t wait anymore!” Then, suddenly, all the sadness and anger finally find a way out. That’s how King reaches your heart. The same style also appears in his famous speech “I’ve a dream!” Martin Luther King is well respected as a great civil rights leader. But, as an effective writer, there are so many things I should learn. For I’m not a native speaker, English articles are less impressive than Chinese. When I read the Black Cat, I even didn’t feel any horror about it. But “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is totally different. I felt exited and read the whole letter without a break. It has such an emotional impact even on a foreigner; it’s not hard to imagine how powerful it is to black people in despair. These fantastic writing and speaking skills enabled Martin Luther King, Jr. to stand forward and fight for his black brothers and sisters to have an equal society and a brilliant future. Paragraph 18: Just and unjust lawParagraph 18th and 19th are not the most attractive paragraphs in this letter. But they play an important role in it. In these two paragraphs, King continues the discussion on just and unjust laws, and proclaims his idea about how to resist the unjust law peacefully and deliberately. These sentences become the pract...
