Hard Rick
William Penn once wrote “ No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne, no gall, no glory; no cross, and no crown.” This quote strongly relates to Etheridge Knight’s Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane, for the main character of Knight’s Hard Rock too is faced with the struggle between his desire for elevated status among his admirers and defiance of the norms of the society. During the era of 1950s and the 1960s, our country was overcome by the struggle for humanity and human suffrage. In 1955, Dr. Martin Luther King led the charge against the government for unfair treatment of African Americans by accepting leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States. His leadership and rebellious force was the first great wave of the Civil Rights Movement to sweep the country. Etheridge Knight boldly parallels the life of Hard Rock and that of Dr. Martin Luther King by illustrating the obvious differences and obscure similarities. The title of the poem itself is an important element in understanding the parallelism that is formed between the two individuals. In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King set his nonviolent tactics in full swing in Birmingham,
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Approximate Word count = 1120
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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