Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

On Wednesday, our class was assigned to read a letter that Martin Luther King wrote in 1963 after he was wrongfully arrested and sent to a jail in Birmingham, Alabama. We also read a children's book called "Martin's Big Words," which referred to some of the same historical events but with a more didactic tone. One thing that I found most significant about reading the two selections was that, even though they were written to appeal to two totally different audiences, they both still used the same element of argument, pathos, which is "appeal to emotion." The children's book did this mostly through its illustrations of young children and walking men. King's letter, however, did this by making references to his own small children and by repeatedly apologizing for taking up the people's "precious time" which his lengthy letter.