How Words Have the Power to Provoke, Calm, and Inspire
Imagine the loud crowds of people chanting “we shall overcome” while your arms are in link with other protesters. You look up to see that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is about to discuss the importance of African Americans fighting for their freedom. In the speech, “I Have a Dream,” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, King addresses why fighting for freedom is important to black people. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was introduced to be “the moral leader of our nation,” and was trusted for his words by the audience. Many people took time off their jobs losing money to observe King’s words that made a huge impact on society, that even now people are still inspired by it. This historic commentary used …show more content…
Martin Luther uses ethos to convey an inspiring tone to move the crowd to do better things. Ethos is the appeal to credibility to convince the audience the creator of the message can be trusted. The audience at the time were christian and very much looked up to god. King mentions the bible quote, “Justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream,” (Paragraph 262). He uses an allusion to establish that justice is something they need to be given. People will begin to listen to him if he talks about god and what is right and wrong, since it is all stated in their religion. Loaded Language is an amazing example of how he inspires the crowd to not give up for what they believe in. Martin Luther King inspired the crowd by saying, “the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality, you have been the veterans of creative suffering,” (paragraph 14). This is powerful because he acknowledges those who have been beat down and mistreated for just trying to stand up for what is right. This is one of the most powerful sections in the speech because police brutality is still a problem we face today. Martin Luther King uses imagery to inspire the crowd to make a change for the sake of their children. He gives them the image of, “little black boys and blacks girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers,” (Paragraph 264). Black people get emotional over their children because they want them to have a better life than what they had growing up. The inspiring part of the speech ties into doing good for the future. Doing good for the future will help all american
Imagine the loud crowds of people chanting “we shall overcome” while your arms are in link with other protesters. You look up to see that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is about to discuss the importance of African Americans fighting for their freedom. In the speech, “I Have a Dream,” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, King addresses why fighting for freedom is important to black people. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was introduced to be “the moral leader of our nation,” and was trusted for his words by the audience. Many people took time off their jobs losing money to observe King’s words that made a huge impact on society, that even now people are still inspired by it. This historic commentary used …show more content…
Martin Luther uses ethos to convey an inspiring tone to move the crowd to do better things. Ethos is the appeal to credibility to convince the audience the creator of the message can be trusted. The audience at the time were christian and very much looked up to god. King mentions the bible quote, “Justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream,” (Paragraph 262). He uses an allusion to establish that justice is something they need to be given. People will begin to listen to him if he talks about god and what is right and wrong, since it is all stated in their religion. Loaded Language is an amazing example of how he inspires the crowd to not give up for what they believe in. Martin Luther King inspired the crowd by saying, “the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality, you have been the veterans of creative suffering,” (paragraph 14). This is powerful because he acknowledges those who have been beat down and mistreated for just trying to stand up for what is right. This is one of the most powerful sections in the speech because police brutality is still a problem we face today. Martin Luther King uses imagery to inspire the crowd to make a change for the sake of their children. He gives them the image of, “little black boys and blacks girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers,” (Paragraph 264). Black people get emotional over their children because they want them to have a better life than what they had growing up. The inspiring part of the speech ties into doing good for the future. Doing good for the future will help all american