What Manner of Man: Post #3

Summary - pgs. 56-111
At this point of the story, Dr. Martin Luther King is now putting his ideas into motion. He is also starting to make his opinions heard by the mass population of his community. With help from his fellow everyday African-Americans, he was beginning to create a legacy that would later change the views of Whites in America. As King kept pressing on, more and more people began to follow him. This all leads up to the day when he gives his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech, which was said to be an impassioned plea for political rights.

Quotation Explanation
The author uses vivid metaphors to describe African-Americans through the eyes of White people who discriminate them by saying that, "There lived in Montgomery at the time fifty thousand Negroes. But they were neither citizens nor subjects. To most white people, the Negro populace was composed of objects, tools, instruments, things to be manipulated, dominated, and endured." (Bennett 55).

My Reaction
The author's writing style is still subjective, thus most of the writing is still a bit uninteresting. However, he still implements high-level vocabulary into his paragraphs, making them sound extraordinary. The Quotation Explanation was on the first page of the chapter, and it immediately caught my attention when I skimmed through and saw the word, "manipulate". Bennett's use of verbs like this can serve as a "hook" of some sort that can draw the reader into the book, making him or her eager to press on and read more of the story.