Topic > Common Sense, by Thomas Paine and Letter to Any...

Achieving justice throughout human history has been one of the primordial dreams pursued by most human beings and, at the same time, hunted down as simple fugitives by others by order to satisfy their fearful thirst for injustice. “Injustice everywhere is in danger of justice everywhere” as stated by Martin Lather King, if you don't fight for justice you may end up having to face the sad reality of injustice taking over everywhere. To prevent this from happening we must fight together against injustice. Two literary works that embrace this idea are Common Sense by Thomas Pain and Letter to Any Could-be Terrorists by Naomi Shihab Nye. These two literary works as an example of protest literature were very important in illustrating how crucial the fight against injustice was because both works were effective in encouraging and helping the authors and their audiences to share their ideas about a troubling topic, while at the same time hoping that one day it will bring about a major social or political change. Letter to All Would-Be Terrorists by Naomi Shihab Nye is protest literature, targeting possible would-be terrorists with the primary goal of combating the discriminatory injustice faced by Arab-Americans following the actions of some individual Arabs after the September 11th. In her letter Naomi Shihab Nye describes how proud she thinks Arabs should be about their origins and, using that feeling and idea, uses her family's lifestyle as an example to show her audience the immensity and the wealth of the Arab community. He thinks Arabs should definitely be proud of their heritage. He talks about his Palestinian father who challenged the word terrorist spread by the Arab community to his American mother, who as she states... middle of paper... for humanity." In the end, Thomas Pain, using this type of message, tried to show the necessity and importance of fighting for one's freedom. Thomas Pain and Naomi Shihab Nye try in their protest literature to free their people's days from darkness while whispering to their audience(s) to have. keep in mind the belief that if today they fight against the injustice they are facing, one day they will all be able to look back on their lives and wish that everyone could have had a life as fun as theirs because, all as one believing in the injustice as it is not a source of as much pride and happiness as their love for justice, everyone will be able to reach in their hearts, and in their entire being, the infinite limit of peace, justice and happiness and so they will be at the same time, they will be capable of exterminating the most dangerous and frightening human creation in the form of injustice.