Mlk Paper

Mlk Paper

In the year 1963, Martin Luther King said his most famous speech "I Have a Dream" in front of the Lincoln Memorial to promote social and racial equality during the civil rights movement. King's speech uses images to force the audience to think about the civil rights issue and to draw the audience's attention in order to change their views. King uses concrete natural images in order to evoke an understanding of nature's unbridled power to destroy and makes comparison to the power we have to change racial inequality. King uses concrete manmade images in order to create relatable comparisons that are commonly understood among his audience. King employs abstract biblical imagery in order to deeply touch his religious audience. King employs abstract societal imagery to give the idea that the people looking for equality are a united group. King employs concrete natural and manmade images as well as abstract biblical and societal images in order to provide a common understanding with his audiencethat nature and society both permit the equality of all people.

King employs concrete natural images in order to create a strong and significant message to the audience. King compares the change from segregation to justice and then to escaping a dark valley. "Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice." Describing segregation as a dark and desolate valley shows his audience that segregation is something that they would want to leave from because it is cold and cruel. Describing the sunlit path outside of the dark and desolate valley and then comparing the path to racial equality makes the audience connect the two ideas into a big one and makes it appear that a better and brighter world awaits those who leave segregation. King describes the revolt as a whirlwind, something very powerful. "The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges."...