Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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Criteria? The short response must: How the device works/ author’s purpose in using device How the device/strategy affects audience does it contextualize the quote (how does accomplish purpose and sub-purpose?)

Thoreau “Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”

Thoreau “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison... the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.”

Thoreau “Why does [the government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?”

Thoreau “For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?”

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Breakdown of Question 10 Humor Terms 7 Modest Proposal 7 MLK 16 TDITWC 5 Close Reading Short Answer