Analysis Of Beyond Vietnam A Time To Break Silence

The struggle of life is not limited to the poor and the desolate, or even the minorities of our nation. It is something that attacks people from all walks of life. If our nation herself is not free from the struggles of war and violence, how can she seek to heal the souls of her children? In Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence”, the speaker has successfully expressed to his audience the fact that unless the unjust Vietnam War ended, the citizens of United States would never be able to lead happy satisfying lives and their poverty would always follow them like a lost puppy. The speaker begins his speech by appealing to his audience’s emotions using a nostalgic feeling of happiness which is now merely
The speaker uses this experience to inspire his audience to think twice about where their own government is leading them under the strain of violence and how it will never lead to peace within their own country. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., the ever peaceful, explains to his audience how even though he is a civil rights leader he dreams and believes in peace and tranquility in the nation. He mentions this to his audience, so that they know what his motives are and to persuade him to join his figurative fight against the Vietnam War and all other wars in general. The speaker explains the motto of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference - “to save the soul of America”, to spark feelings of patriotism within his audience. He says, “if America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam”. By personifying America and imagining her death, the speaker explains to his audience that if action isn’t taken soon, America as we know it, may no longer exist, and the main reasons for this will be the Vietnam War and all the hopes of men it has destroyed along the