Dreadful Experience

In the book The Life and The Death of Martin Luther King Jr., Martin has dreadful experiences in life partially because he was a black man that lived in the Jim Crow south most of his life and partially because he was the face of the Civil Rights Movement. In Martin's childhood he tried to commit suicide because he felt responsible for the death of his grandmother. The book states,"One time when their parents were out of the house A.D. slid down the stair banister and collided so sharply with the grandmother that he knocked her unconscious. Martin, blaming himself for not watching his younger more carefully, tried to kill himself by jumping out of an upstairs window." This can be a very harmful, and traumatizing situation in life. There are a lot of people that attempt suicide worldwide and are unsuccessful. But I personally believe that this shaped Martin Luther King Jr. for the better because after the unsuccessful suicide attempt he now respected life and found that everybody has a reason to live a life. If there was no Martin Luther King Jr. would there be a successful Civil Rights Movement?