Lit.+Devices+Fleshpot+and+Emnacipation

**"They prefer the "fleshpots of Egypt" to the ordeals of emancipation" (pg. 9).**

**A.** King uses this reference to show that acquiescence is not the answer to oppression as it only causes people to give up and surrender. 
 * B.** Not only is this an allusion, as it references Moses, but it is also a metaphor. The quote is comparing "the fleshpots of Egypt", some sort of slums I assume, to emancipation.
 * A.** This example communicates MLK's point about acquiescence because he's saying the slaves in Egypt were so used to being slaves that they didn't even question it, and he didn't want this to happen with black people and racism.
 * B.** This literary device is a metaphor because it compares black people being discriminated against to the Egyptian slaves, in the fact that they could both possibly become used to their bad treatment and not try and change their circumstances.