Analysis of “I have a Dream”
Martin Luther King, JR. was born in late 1900s in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in a Christian family, where most of his family members were preacher. His family’s values had shaped King, JR. to be a strong-optimistic Negro with love toward others. (King, 1998). National Archive (n.d.) reports that King JR. took his action to push government to open their eyes to see the racism that created gap amongst people by speaking his speech that known as “I have a Dream” on August 28, 1963 in the front of ten thousand people, in Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC.
Vary of talk card used in the way King JR. delivering his speech. He played the card of teacher, friend, family member, motivator and leader that was made he delivered his speech successfully. In my opinion, the way he played different roles in his speech was really brilliant. In the very beginning of his speech, he expressed his gratitude of being in the occasion together with all of the audience. “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation” (King, 1963) He used card of friend and family together in this sentence. Expression of “our nation” shows that King JR. try to convince the audiences that they are family that together part of the …show more content…
put lower distance in his powerful speech, where both speaker and audience have equal distribution of power. He delivered his speech with spirit and pure emotion. He made himself in the position where he and the audiences have the same power, he was not higher than the audience and vice versa, he put himself as a friend that motivated his friend. He used friendliness style. King JR. used both of formal and informal style in his speech, he used a lot of complex sentences and formal word choice, but he also used a lot of simple sentences. He used his natural accent, like other Negros’ accent and he used a very good phase in the way he
Martin Luther King, JR. was born in late 1900s in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in a Christian family, where most of his family members were preacher. His family’s values had shaped King, JR. to be a strong-optimistic Negro with love toward others. (King, 1998). National Archive (n.d.) reports that King JR. took his action to push government to open their eyes to see the racism that created gap amongst people by speaking his speech that known as “I have a Dream” on August 28, 1963 in the front of ten thousand people, in Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC.
Vary of talk card used in the way King JR. delivering his speech. He played the card of teacher, friend, family member, motivator and leader that was made he delivered his speech successfully. In my opinion, the way he played different roles in his speech was really brilliant. In the very beginning of his speech, he expressed his gratitude of being in the occasion together with all of the audience. “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation” (King, 1963) He used card of friend and family together in this sentence. Expression of “our nation” shows that King JR. try to convince the audiences that they are family that together part of the …show more content…
put lower distance in his powerful speech, where both speaker and audience have equal distribution of power. He delivered his speech with spirit and pure emotion. He made himself in the position where he and the audiences have the same power, he was not higher than the audience and vice versa, he put himself as a friend that motivated his friend. He used friendliness style. King JR. used both of formal and informal style in his speech, he used a lot of complex sentences and formal word choice, but he also used a lot of simple sentences. He used his natural accent, like other Negros’ accent and he used a very good phase in the way he