He was a strong believer that one day regardless of your skin tone we will all form together and become one. In the mid 1950’s America was suffering from segregation. Colored people were set apart from the rest. Martin Luther King opened up his speech by using pathos. He appealed to his emotion in the early stage of his speech. “This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hopes to millions of Negro slaves who have been seared in the flames of withering injustice”. He started to give his audience the idea of what he is getting ready to talk about. He wants his audience to feel his words “One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished”. Dr. King used repetition to emphasize the importance of what he is telling the audience. It makes you realize the degree of his point of view. Also reading the same phrase over and over makes you feel it emotionally, He’s stressing it by repeating himself, so the audience must feel his emotion through his
He was a strong believer that one day regardless of your skin tone we will all form together and become one. In the mid 1950’s America was suffering from segregation. Colored people were set apart from the rest. Martin Luther King opened up his speech by using pathos. He appealed to his emotion in the early stage of his speech. “This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hopes to millions of Negro slaves who have been seared in the flames of withering injustice”. He started to give his audience the idea of what he is getting ready to talk about. He wants his audience to feel his words “One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished”. Dr. King used repetition to emphasize the importance of what he is telling the audience. It makes you realize the degree of his point of view. Also reading the same phrase over and over makes you feel it emotionally, He’s stressing it by repeating himself, so the audience must feel his emotion through his