¶ … Coatesville" John Jay Chapman "The Letter Birmingham Jail" Martin Luther
Deeply Disillusioned
The United States of America has meant a wide variety of things to several different people, particularly to those who have had to call its shores home. The initial promise of this land -- as one of redemption, as a place where the lofty ideas engraved within such documents as the Bill of Rights and the Constitution have never been fully realized by a widening number of people who have never been treated with the degree of parity and ideals within them -- wasted little time in going sour. Virtually any Native American can tell you: there can never be justice on stolen land. In spite of this fact, men such as Martin Luther King, Jr. have written their own documents (such as "Letter From A Birmingham Jail," a discourse about the need for public non-violent protest) attempting to change this fact and change the country. Similarly, John Jay Chapman's piece entitled "Coatesville," which laments the public burning of an African-American man, was also written as a cry to incite decisive action within this country to bring about a perceived change in the racial disparities that have always threatened it. Yet closer examination of these texts indicates the authors' respective sense of disillusionment with America's promise and the idea that there will never be justice within its borders.
The principle cause for the growing sense of disillusionment within the United States is evinced in Chapman's "Coatesville" as a direct result of the racially motivated violent actions propagated against African-Americans. The public burning of an African-American was the inspiration for the author's writing of "Coatesville," and shows his disillusionment with a society that would largely tolerate and condone such action, as the following quotation indicates. "As I read the newspaper accounts of the scene enacted here in Coatesville a year ago, I seemed to get a glimpse into the unconscious soul of this country… I said to myself…I have seen death in the heart of this people." The newspaper accounts which the author refers...
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Abstract This paper serves as a letter from Birmingham jail analysis essay. It first gives background information on the Birmingham Campaign and why King was there in the first place. Then it proceeds to discuss the reason he wrote his letter, which was a public response to public criticism he received from eight white Southern preachers. The analysis examines the letter itself and shows how King used various arguments and persuasive
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