Martin Luther King American Dream Rhetorical Analysis
Mireille Mina
Professor Eberle
English 1A
27 September 2016
“Martin Luther King Jr’s American Dream”
On August 28th, 1963 over 200,000 people gathered at the Lincoln memorial so hear a speech. This speech was given by Martin Luther King Jr. He gave his “I Have a Dream Speech that discussed the problem of discrimination and segregation. During this time the African Americans were oppressed dramatically. They were forced to use separate public utilities and schools to leave space for the whites. An example of this is when Rosa Parks was asked to move from her seat in the middle of the bus for a white man. She had refused to get up so then she was arrested. To show what Martin Luther King Jr. was there to do he states, “I am happy to join with …show more content…
uses logic in his analogies which uses logos. He shows this when he states, “American has given the negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds’” (King). He is relating the audience to himself by saying he has been given a bad check because everyone understands how money works. He uses this because he wants the blacks to know that they have the same rights, opportunities, and respect the whites get. All though the blacks were promised “all men are created equal,” this is trying to say that all Americans should be equal no matter what. During King’s speech he constantly repeats, “one hundred years later” to emphasize the fact that nothing has been changing. Even after the emancipation proclamation was signed it all managed to fail. When King …show more content…
He represented a very strong stand for rights and segregation. He spoke out about racism and the discrimination to certain races. King did not end racism but he did make a memorable moment in history. Martin Luther King Jr’s main argument was,”… when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! “
Professor Eberle
English 1A
27 September 2016
“Martin Luther King Jr’s American Dream”
On August 28th, 1963 over 200,000 people gathered at the Lincoln memorial so hear a speech. This speech was given by Martin Luther King Jr. He gave his “I Have a Dream Speech that discussed the problem of discrimination and segregation. During this time the African Americans were oppressed dramatically. They were forced to use separate public utilities and schools to leave space for the whites. An example of this is when Rosa Parks was asked to move from her seat in the middle of the bus for a white man. She had refused to get up so then she was arrested. To show what Martin Luther King Jr. was there to do he states, “I am happy to join with …show more content…
uses logic in his analogies which uses logos. He shows this when he states, “American has given the negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds’” (King). He is relating the audience to himself by saying he has been given a bad check because everyone understands how money works. He uses this because he wants the blacks to know that they have the same rights, opportunities, and respect the whites get. All though the blacks were promised “all men are created equal,” this is trying to say that all Americans should be equal no matter what. During King’s speech he constantly repeats, “one hundred years later” to emphasize the fact that nothing has been changing. Even after the emancipation proclamation was signed it all managed to fail. When King …show more content…
He represented a very strong stand for rights and segregation. He spoke out about racism and the discrimination to certain races. King did not end racism but he did make a memorable moment in history. Martin Luther King Jr’s main argument was,”… when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! “