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. The
revelating anaphora of I have a dream (p.18-24) boasts Kings 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 to 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 their own dreams 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 uses I, placed at the beginning of his
anaphoric stated dreams, to not simply establish that he owns his dream, but to show the
audience the needs for a better, fulfilling America 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. Kings hastefully focuses on the revisions of America, to show more of its flaws in
order to get the people to unify by declaring that those such flaws dont have to be permanent. .
In paragraph 6, Kings builds emotions and rush into his audience to alarm them that now is the
time (p.6) and if they let this time wither and nullify, then who knows how long it will take for
their precious dreams of freedom and equality to come to fruition. And he wants his audience to
see how quickly their dream can disintegrate 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 not in an unhealthy state and needs the
help of all to get back to its health. Through this he projects the importance of one and not all by
manifesting to the Civil Rights Activists that this nation is our nation (p.6).This persuades the
people to rise together and claim together the justices of America and the promises of
democracy (p.6). This collective pronoun usage, which is said only one in this paragraph, shows
the rarity of brotherhood in the desolate valley (p.6) of America. King expresses through this
one time usage that a brotherhood (p.6) bond is needed to affectively revise America and help
it stand up and grow on from the injustices of racial discrimination, but to the worthy freedom
bound by everyone. 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 the world 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.