A Critique Of Martin Luther King's Speech

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inhabited a country that stood for all these ideals that weren’t holding true therefore they all had the responsibility to act. The last card played at the heartstrings of the audience which was the father card, Parents all have a sense of want for their children. They yearn to deliver experiences they were not able to have. With hope King announced,“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”(King, 1963)
There were a multitude of cards that were possible to play. Maybe the friend card, or the humor card but I feel that these would of taken away from the speech. The cards he played fit with each other in a perfect way and I personally don’t think I would add any card at all. Adding a card would change the whole style of the speech. The high formality aspect of King’s speech made it hard to bring any humor into the speech. The liking or friendliness
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King’s speech was to empower his people. He wanted to rekindle what they had started and let everyone else know they would not stop fighting until they were treated equally. The audience were memorized by his message. Everyone came for slightly different reasons and King satisfied all of them. Some were looking for hope others were just trying to fuel the battle they had been fighting their whole lives. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. captivated everyone and not only met expectations but exceeded them.
Identifying as a leader King asked his audience to take on the role of followers. He succeeded in inspiring them in hopes that they would then follow or continue to follow him in the fight against segregation and systematic racism. When he played the “negro” card King’s goal was to establish that he was apart of the struggled. When playing that card he didn’t really expect the audience to play a reciprocal card but to channel into the “negro” card as well to gain a sense of

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