Dr. Martin Luther King's I Have Seen The Mountaintop

Dr. Martin Luther King wrote “I Have Seen the Mountaintop.” In the year 1968 In a time where the negroe population was being severely mistreated. King was outraged at this matter and was desperate to make a change. His plan was to unite the negroe community and the American people as one by making them think not what will happen to me if I do this but what will happen to them if I do not. He was fighting for what America was initially founded upon, all men are created equal and their inalienable rights.
King was a very well rounded writer he managed to effectively use all 5 dimensions of persuasion in this speech. Ethos was effectively used when he cited credible sources such as Ralph Abernathy a leader of the civil rights movement, Abraham
Lincoln the 16th president of the United States who signed the Emancipation Proclamation and James Lawson. Logos was used when King appeals to the audience’s sense of reason, African Americans have an annual income of more than 30 billion a year (not currently). Which made that community collectively richer than most nations in the world. Pathos was used when various biblical references were employed during his speeches such as when he spoke of Pharaoh and the slaves when Pharaoh wanted to keep the slaves he pitted them against each other but when they became a unity something amazing happened he proposed this idea as if the negroe community came together in the way the slaves of Egypt did a similar change would happen. I have been to the mountaintop also relates to the story of Jesus’ journey from Jericho to Jerusalem?
Martin Luther King made valiant efforts to change Americas people and the country itself. Although this speech was his last millions of people were affected by it. The speech is about unity and making a positive change in a community. King used biblical references to appeal to the emotions of