James Baldwin – “Letter to My Nephew”
Article link:
https://progressive.org/magazine/letter-nephew/
Martin Luther King, Jr – “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Article link：
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/mlk/files/letterfrombirmingham_wwcw_0.pdf
A thesis statement indicating which author makes the most effective use of pathos and, briefly, why.
In the form of a direct quotation from the text of the author’s use of pathos. Follow up the quotation with a few sentences of analysis: what makes this use of pathos
Written as a paraphrase of the author’s use of pathos. Follow up the paraphrase with a few sentences of analysis what makes this use of pathos effective?
A few sentence conclusion in which briefly explain why this author’s use of pathos is more effective than the author with which they are paired.
Civil Disobedience (Excerpt) by Henry David Thoreau
https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/civildisobedience/full-text/on-the-duty-of-civil-disobedience/
For this article, please read paragraph one to paragraph eleven and skip the rest of the paragraphs and continue read the last paragraph.
Who made a more compelling argument for disobeying unjust laws, Martin Luther King, Jr. in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” or Henry David Thoreau in “Civil Disobedience?”
Response should address at least one rhetorical appeal and indicate how one author used it to greater effect than the other.
Response should include at least two quotations. They may be both from the same author or one from each.
Full response should be at least ten sentences in length.
