Martin Luther King Jr. has empowered and strongly impacted people with his words many times before. The book Why We Can't Wait is no exception. In this book, Martin Luther King uses his words to strengthen the Black Americans in 1963. In Why We Can't Wait, Martin Luther King Jr. describes to the Black Americans in 1963 the social conditions and their attitudes using rhetorical questions, parallelism, and repetition.
In the book, King separates it into three sections. In the beginning, he starts off with stories that take place in two different places and begins to connect both. In the middle, he uses parallelism to show how alike the kids are. In the end, King uses repetition to bring the importance of what they knew and rile them up. …show more content…
King describes a boy living in Harlem where the "drunks, the jobless, the junkies are shadow figures of his everyday world", while the girl lives in a life where she is not able to go to school and her father is a porter, who "will always be a porter, for there are no promotions for the Negro in this store". They both live in a life where they would never really go anywhere whether it is never rising or never getting a job. King intended to reunite the Black Americans by having them realize that change is needed and they can make it. King then reunites both stories by adding rhetorical strategies. He reunites both kid's thoughts with "Why does misery constantly haunt the Negros?" He does this in order to have his audience think about it as well and think about whether their children ever have thought about it
In the book, King separates it into three sections. In the beginning, he starts off with stories that take place in two different places and begins to connect both. In the middle, he uses parallelism to show how alike the kids are. In the end, King uses repetition to bring the importance of what they knew and rile them up. …show more content…
King describes a boy living in Harlem where the "drunks, the jobless, the junkies are shadow figures of his everyday world", while the girl lives in a life where she is not able to go to school and her father is a porter, who "will always be a porter, for there are no promotions for the Negro in this store". They both live in a life where they would never really go anywhere whether it is never rising or never getting a job. King intended to reunite the Black Americans by having them realize that change is needed and they can make it. King then reunites both stories by adding rhetorical strategies. He reunites both kid's thoughts with "Why does misery constantly haunt the Negros?" He does this in order to have his audience think about it as well and think about whether their children ever have thought about it