Keyahnna Lindsey

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IHADAss 2, 3Evs Paragraph Development
10/23/13

Within Kings empowering I Have a Dream speech delivered in Washington, D.C., to
the Civil Rights Activists, he shifts from the dark oppression of injustice to the bright and joyous
prospect of the future, in order to persuade them to continue fighting until justice prevails and the
people can be free at last (p. 37)
As King, introduces his acknowledgements of the crises of the Negro people in order to
prove that their struggles should not bring them to a stop toward their sacred goal of total
equality, by getting them to join hands while he expresses his perspective of the future. By
hastefully focusing on the flaws of America, King shows the power of unity, by declaring that
those such flaws are revisable. In paragraph 6, Kings builds the emotions of rush into his
audience to alarm them that now is the time (p.6) and if they let this time wither away, then
who knows how long it will take for their precious hopes of freedom and equality to come to
fruition. He wants his audience to see how quickly their dreams can be dislodged if they dont
stand their ground and fight for its life. King exemplifies the work needed to fix America to
move toward the sunlit path of racial justice by simply assuring the people that America is in
an injustful state and needs the help of all to get back to its foundation of justice. Through this he
projects the importance unity by manifesting to the Civil Rights Activists that this nation is our
nation (p.6), in order to persuade them to rise together and claim together the justices and
promises of America. Our, the collective pronoun usage which is said only once in this
paragraph, shows the rarity of brotherhood among the nation, which has brought King to express
what he sees of it. Through this, King shows that a brotherhood (p.6) bond is the force needed
to affectively revise America and help it stand up and grow on from the injustices of racial
discrimination, but to the worthy path of freedom bound by everyone. By the revelating anaphora
of I have a dream (p.18-24), King boasts his dream from projecting not only a dream, but his
deep emotional attachment to it, to facilitate in the making of the audiences own bond to their
own dreams. Kings repetition of his many dreams and aspirations register to the audience that
he possess something personal and confidential, of which he deems worth standing up for, to
further persuade the audience to formulate dreams of their own, of which they would persevere.
Kings strategy is to uplift the veterans of constant struggle, by expressing his prospection, in
order to get the audience to contemplate more positively and see the value in having something
inalienable. Because dreams are not materialistic, no one can seize them from another unless one
allows it, which makes the connotation of dream more passionate than any wish and in fact
worth a battle to the death. King shifts to first person pronoun usage, to not only ease the haste
in his audience or simply establish that he owns his dream, but to show the audience the needs
for a better, fulfilling America and not the necessities for it. And what King believes America so
desperately needs, is to treat all men (p.18) equally, which he alludes to further the ideology as
to what everyone is obligated to uphold. He also feels that in order to uphold this basic right of
men, that people should perceive one another based on their character rather than by the color
of their skin (p.21), because the injustful action of judging someone by the pigment of their
skin, diminishes the equality of themselves and their posterity, down to nothing but physical
features. Therefore, with these needs at hand, they all have to collectively join one another, to
stand and fight to get those dreams fulfilled and those rights granted. As King proceeds to bring
the people together through his motivating speech, by his righteous parallel sentences, he
withdrawals balanced feelings of relief and placement, even though they havent begun to fight
for the precedent of justice of the nation. Let freedom ring (p.30-36) is an anadiplosive
continuum of the last lyric of the song included in paragraph 28 of the speech. King implements
this song to shift from song and reality to the balance between them. Songs, rather the
connotation of them, really show light on dark situations to relieve audiences of any stress,
through the beautiful tones and symphonic-like music alongside them. And by this, King shows
the beautiful reality of America to step aside from its faults and point out its unique traits. He
balances these descriptions of different places to emphasize that no matter where the people of
the audience are from, those states work together like a puzzle, because these states did not
always work so well together and it took battles and wars to get it to the point at which it stands.
And to further explain that that is precisely what the peoples role and goals are, to work together
like a puzzle balanced by ideology of life, liberty, happiness, and equality for all people uniquely
placed throughout this glorious nation.