Rhetorical Analysis Of I Have A Dream By Martin Luther King Jr.

In the speech “ I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. develops the theme of having hope, when there are hard times could help in finding a way to obtaining the goal by using the symbol of a bad check and the allusion to “Free at Last”. King argues about how America has defaulted then afterward mentions that “America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked insufficient funds. But we refused to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.” In other words, America started to treat the Negro less than white, but they refused to be treated that way, this indicates that they have hope that they could be considered the same as white and should be treated like one. Overall, this means that the Negro have the hope that
justice should be for everyone Negro and white. King also used an allusion to demonstrate that Negro people had hoped, when King was arguing how freedom should be he mention afterwards, “ 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.” To summarize one day everyone is gonna be free and treated equally, this illustrates that the Negro had hoped that one day soon in the future they will have the same rights, decision, treatment as white. The impact of this is that they had hope in change America to make it a better place for all men in kind.