Letter From Birmingham Jail Analysis Essay

His entire letter through the use of stylistic devices like similes and metaphors demand his audience to think about the problem and do something to solve it. In paragraph seven we found an example of a simile:
Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
This simile written in an urgent tone compares a boil with injustice. A sore needs to be open in order to heal no matter how ugly it looks. The same way, injustices must likewise expose so people can act and help avoid this partiality. When King talks about the days he was looking at the beautiful church buildings, he uses an effective metaphor, “On sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings… .” King is comparing the summer with intensive oppressive heat the same way he correlates the

As a result of the church being able to influence the society before, King compares it with a thermostat and the contemporary Church as a thermometer, just taking notes on what is happening. A thermostat is able to change to colder or hotter temperatures, as well as the Church could help change people’s minds, but instead, they decided not to fight in favor of equality for their members. King finishes his letter expecting “that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away”, hoping for a better future that like after a bad weather, the sun always shines. In addition to his desire “the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted” from humanity; by comparing the deep fog of misunderstanding with the inequalities he is wishing they will forsake and there will be no more fear or hatred between the human