Letter Form the Birmingham Jail
Comprehensions:
1. He stated that he was “serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.”(2) Therefore he was invites here and because he has organizations that are approaching same goals as him here. While more importantly, his actions were due to the “injustice”(2) here. In addition, he states that: “I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.”(4) He thinks that his destiny in to fight against injustice, which is threat everywhere, so “outside agitator”(4) no longer exists. In these aspects, his actions are not “unwise and untimely”.

2. In paragraph four, King describes himself as a person who can’t not sit aside and watch the injustice being a threat everywhere. He describes people as a whole that “we (they) are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” So “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow. As the whole human population is a whole and inseparable, there is no such a thing called outsider. Everyone who lives in the United States is never an outsider no matter where he/she lives.

Rhetorical:
1. Metaphor is the use of something to represent something else. In this case, King uses dark clouds representing racial prejudice; fog representing misunderstanding; radian stars representing love and brotherhood. Dark clouds, just as the racial prejudice is cold, gloomy and depressive, and on the other side, radian star, just as love and brotherhood, is luminous, warm and powerful which can disperse the darkness and fog. King uses this metaphor, which makes his language more figurative, and vivid to