Which statement best reflects how Martin Luther King, Jr. uses rhetoric and style in paragraph 9 of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" to assist him in advocating the use of nonviolent direct action to achieve justice for Negro citizens in Birmingham? Click here to read the letter.

A.) He illustrates the issue by use of a paradox—something that has held its citizens in bondage is contrasted with the freedom that will ultimately produce a new understanding of each other's trials.
B.) He creates a reassuring tone by reminding the pastors of the common text from which they derive their worldview, which ultimately lessens tension and leads to constructive negotiation.
C.) He combines details and indisputable facts with hyperbole and understatement to demonstrate the complexities of attempting to unify forces in order to promote change among opposing groups of citizens.
D.) He repeats its expected results—economic hardship for the business community of a city—so readers will be reminded that it often takes such dramatic methods to directly cause changes in group behavior.