Dear John Lewis, 

     While reading I was left in complete shock. I felt the emotion throughout the moment of the funeral and the words were very powerful. I was also very angry when I realized what the President and his staff were trying to do when Fannie Lou Hamer came on national T.V to share her story.  I was also not expecting to see everyone go to Africa and meet Malcolm X. It was also interesting to see the teachers march. I noticed how you kept using the word “march” in several instances, and the different tones you gave for the same word. The moment of what was happening in Selma, and how you focused on that specific part seemed like a very huge milestone and climax 

     You used pathos heavily in this part of your book because of Malcolm X’s death, I was shocked by how you received the news with him, and with Jimmie Lee Jackson.  It seems that you were building up to that scene of the bridge and how you made the mood very tense and somber. I wonder what made you accept that every time you would go march or protest, you’d get arrested. I liked the parallel you gave, by when it focused on the present time when President Obama was inaugurated and when it went back to the past.  A solution i’d like to propose would be to encourage the people to continue to fight for what’s right and to not get discouraged. 

                                                                                                   Sincerely,

                                                                                          Carmen Guzman