Stride Toward Freedom

non-fiction by Martin Luther King Jr.

Religion reminds everyman that he is his brothers keeper.
Life of opressed; they adjusted by being silent
To accept passively is unjust
Religion reminds everyone of there moral rights
Can adjust by being violent.
Violence to achieve racial justice is impractical and immoral (emphasis hate rather than love) seeks humiliate opponinte rather than win his understanding
violence ends by defeating itself; creates bitterness, or adjust, nonviolent resistance; reconsive truth of 2 opposites
with nonviolence resistance, no individual or group need submit to any wrong, nor resort to violence in order to right or wrong.
Not black vs. white, but justice vs. injustice.

Information on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King

Malcolm X:
Malcolm X: was an African-American Muslim minister
public speaker, and human rights activist.
He stood up for the rights of African-Americans. He was known as a very great and influential man in the history of blacks.



Martin Luther King Jr.:
Martin Luther King Jr was a clergyman, activist and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.
In 1963 he led the March on Washington where said the well known speech called "I Have a Dream".
Killed on April 4, 1968.

Protect Ourselves- Transcript of 1964 TV Interview
Done By: Malcolm X

Malcolm believes in talking face to face rather than doing something constructive for the benefit of other people.
Malcolm also believes negros should be allowed to have guns for protection
Malcolm questions if government and FBI respects negros
He also believes negros should form vigilanted committees for protection of lives and community.

Ballad of Birmingham

poem by Dudley Randall

Mom didnt want her little girl on the streets so she told her she could go to the Baptist Church so she did and a man by the name of Robert Chambliss blew it up and killed 4 little girls. When the mother went to the church she found her daughters shoe.
Ballad-narrative poem:meant origianally to be sung

Coming of Age in Mississippi

autobiography by: Anne Moody

1963 she was part of a NAACP.
conducted boycotts of the downstown stores in Jackson
3 blacks sat down at the counter up front
got mustard, ketchup, sugar, and much more poured all over them
many news crews showed up
when they prayed people got even more mad and upset
Memphis arreseted, but 2 girls stayed
one white man joined them
As they were being harrased a man by the name of Lois Chaffee joined them, 2 whites, and 2 negro women
John Salter came but got a jaw wound
George Raymond also a student joined
slapped and pushed to the ground
cops didnt do anything because the "bartender didnt tell them to do anything"
when they got out the cops barly protected them
after Anne went and got her hair cleaned and get to walk infront of all the other customers
That night there was a rally and she was afraid of something being on the news because she was afraid they would maybe hurt her family

From Narrative life of Frederick Douglass

Style:not what was said, but how it was said. Style can be described as a formal or conversational concise or elabrote, object or subject.

Talks about his master Covey
He got sold to him for a year
Talks about how he went through hell the whole 6 months with Mr. Covey
One day when he is sick and working he falls to the grouns and is told to get back up but he cant so he gets beat
He then runs away and goes to his old master to tell him what Mr. Covey is doing
Well walking home he meets a guy and they go talk to his gf
She tells him to keep a root on the rightside of his arm
He goes back Saturday morning and when he gets there Covey sees him and runs after him
He gets away and hides in the corn for a day
The next day when he is doing horse chores Covey comes up to him ready to whip him
He doesnt let him and starts to fight back
He calls to Hughes but Fred kicks him to the ground and Bill doesnt help him either
They went @ it for 2 hrs. Finally Covey gave up
He was another slave for 4 more years but was never whipped

QUOTES


Figurative:
"I expected every movement that my brains would be dashed out against the trees." Page 563

Word Choice:
"My car was upset and shattered." Page 563

Elaborate:
"His comings were like a thief in the night." Page 565

Formal:
"My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died." Page 565

Conversational:
"He spoke to me very kindly, bade me drive pigs from a lot near by and passed on towards the church." Page 569

Declaration of Independence

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/doi/text.html


The Declaration of Independence has four main parts:
* a preamble, or foreword, that announces the reason for the document
* a declaration of people's natural rights and relationship to government
* a long list of complaints against George III, the British king
* a conclusion that formally states America's independence

-unalienable: that may not be taken away
-despotism: absolute power or control; tyranny
-transient: passing away with time
-usurpations: acts of wrongfully taking over a right or power that belongs to someone else
-conjured: appealed to
-consanguinity: blood relationship
-acquiesce in the necessity which denounces: recognize that we must demand
-parallelism: the use of similar grammatical forms to express ideas of equal importance
-insurrections: an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government

The list of complaints begins with "He..."
1. Why do they repeat it?
To let people no that it is important and has a meaning.

2. Why do they make it personal?
Its just how they did it so that that one person stands out.

3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
They change how they wrote it out so that there are parts that stand out more than others.Also there's parts that mean more then the others. For example: He has....

4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
When it talks about the King of Great Britain "He has...." they use it to show the one person standing out!

parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.


5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
"We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. " This is says we all need to learn to get along and live with one another as it would be the right thing to do!

A Murder, A Mystery, and A Marriage by Mark Twain

Southwestern Missouri
Village of Deere Lick: small town, were John lives
Reverend Hurley: Reverend in town
John Grey: Mary Grey's father, farmer, 55 yrs old
Mary Grey: daughter of John Grey and loves Hugh Gregory
Hugh Gregory: Mary's love, has lots of money
- tall, handsome, honest
Sara/Sally Grey: John Grey's wife and Mary's mom
Tom: little brother
Dave: John's brother, very rich
Reverend comes and says Dave's gonna leave all money to Mary
John tells Mary shes not allowed to marry Hugh
He lives in small town called Deer Lick.
His daughter Mary Gray and Hugh Gregory want to get married.
Reverend John Hurley:Hates Hugh because he tried to cheat Hugh's father out of money and Hugh stopped him.
Dave left all his money to Mary in his will
John went into the field and found a stranger in the snow
The stranger was named George Wayne-Frenchmam who was very wealthy and his father is a lord and so is he, his father wanted to marry a queen but he wanted to marry for love.
His real name is Count Hubert dee Fountingblow
Mary now says she could love Count b/c he came a gave a big speech about how he will leave her alone b/c she loves Hugh.
Hugh and Dave get in a fight.
Count tells marry he loves her.
John comes and said Hugh has killed Dave, the knife, the cloth and blood.
Hugh and Mary are trying to reach each other but John gets in the way.
Count and Mary decide to get married.
The hanging of Hugh is on the same day as the counts and Marys wedding.
Mary doesn't know that Hugh has been excused.
They are going to get married- a stranger is the reverend and he tells of the hanging.
The police rush in and say that Hugh is innocent.
He taught himself everything he knows.
Count killed Dave Gray so that he could get Mary's wealth
Jean had worked for Jules Vern and Jean would go and when he came back he told Vern his stories.
Vern would then twist his stories and make books. He killed Vern when they were up in a hot air balloon.
This book is really bashing on Jules Vern b/c of Mark Twain and the stolen book.