Rhetorical Analysis Of Why Judy Brady I Want A Wife

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King & Brady Judy Brady was born in 1937, and became a freelance writer after going to the university of Iowa and getting her B.F.A in 1962. She wrote for a magazine called the Ms. and was an active feminist.Brady’s article Why I want a wife written in the 1971 issue of Ms. magazine, detailed how she would too want a wife to take care of her and her children, while she was off at work or getting a college education. In the article she uses satire to mock the current way women are viewed by many male peers. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, writes a letter from a cell in Birmingham Alabama to eight fellow Bishop Clergymen,C.C.J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L.Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, Reverend George …show more content…

That is the only point in his letter where emotion is shown, which is important to understand why. Knowing that the ones against him and the cause he fights for, would take an emotional letter and use it against him, calling him uncredible from the emotions he displays. By keeping a logical tone throughout, he can add in a small amount of emotion to remind those who read the letter that he is human. Although the emotion plays another role here besides serving as a reminder that he’s human; King wants the clergymen he writes to, to know his anger about having to find a way to explain to his young son and daughter about racism. That he shouldn’t even have to find a way to explain that to them; the clergymen themselves have never had to explain to their children why they can’t go to Funtown or why white people are mean to colored people that they shouldn’t tell the affected minority’s to wait for a more well timed

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