Rhetorical Analysis: I Have a Dream Speech

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Rhetorical Analysis: Martin Luther King Jr an educated christan who left the crowd astonished after his speech. His goal was to abolish slavery and have whites and blacks in the same place with no hostility, to live in peace for as long as people are on this earth. His dream took flight after that astonishing speech. He encouraged blacks to protest but without violence. That day marked a note in the history books and is now taught today. Martin Luther king Jr took attention to the problem in our country during the Civil rights era. As he starts his speech, Dr.King seems optimistic about his speech during the first line.Then he speaks about the hardship which African Americans endured while America was beginning to become a stronger symbol of hope and freedom. He uses ethos, logos, and pathos throughout his speech "Ethos, or the ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author's credibility or character." Dr. King is a man who is over flowing with credibility. He uses his writing skills to display his intellegance, it was second nature to him since he already had to write speeches and sermons as a child. In his speech head drew inspiration from his Christian faith and the peaceful teachings that he had learned as a child. “While others were advocating for freedom by “any means necessary,” including violence, Martin Luther King, Jr. used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly-impossible goals”(). he portrayed ethos in his speech effectively because he himself is an African American, and he knows exactly what kind of segregation and discrimination his black brothers are experiencing. King gives an example by saying, “We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels
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