Rhetorical Analysis Of African American Cruelty

African American Cruelty wasn’t right. The Author’s purpose is to persuade the World to change. This was to help stop African American Cruelty to come to a stop. This speech, “I have a dream” by M.L.K. was how he had a dream that he wanted the world to change. “I have a Dream” by Martin Luther King was most compelling and it really stood out to me because it was very long. He made his structure about everything really stand out to his audience. His speech was drowned in rhetorical devices that stood out to me such as: Pace, Sentence Structure, Repetition, Imagery, Pathos, Allusions, and Sequencing/Chronology. The Author’s points were to get across the audience's mind that African American Cruelty needed to come to a stop. The world needed

to change, men were to be created equal, and that M.L.K. wanted the World to have peace.

The most important main idea in “I have a Dream” by M.L.K. was to inform everybody what was going on in the world not only in one place-- but all, and it was to persuade the world the change. People needed to make a change and help stop African American Cruelty. On August 23rd, 1968 there was a speech called “I have a dream.”
For a long time, slaves and African Americans were being treated wrongly and the cruelty just needed to come to a stop. This problem was caused by many people. Whites can’t be the only ones who take the blame. Everyone has done it. People have made others in their community be slaves for them and treated them wrongly. It was cruelty to them, and not right. The author used Pace, Sentence Structure, Repetition, and imagery to make their speech stand out. Especially for this main Idea. In the actual speech itself the author used pace. If you have ever listened to M.L.K. give his speech, you can tell the pace. Just from listening to it, you can tell that he spoke slow, then fast in some parts. “... and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.”(M.L.K. 9) Then “We cannot walk alone.” (M.L.K. 10) In the longer quote, he spoke slow and then changed how he said the next. Then on the smaller quote, he spoke faster than he did on the one before. From him doing this, it made the smaller quote be kind of emphasised. The quotes mean that all people have the same amount of freedom no matter what. Knowing this, African Americans have no right to even be treated wrongly or different to others. The Author also used Sentence Structure for one of his Rhetorical Devices. In some of the sentences that he created, he used commas. Commas create a pause in the text. “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” (M.L.K. 2) From the commas, it leaves a pause which created emphasizing and it leaves the audience kind of hanging on what he has to say next. The quote brings up the Emancipation Proclamation meaning that they have tried to helped solve this problem before, but it wasn’t quite enough to push them off the edge yet for people to actually do something about it. The Author used repetition as well. When M.L.K. was giving the speech, there were tons of people. With tons of people, it could get loud. Repeating what he has to say, means it is very important to start out with. “I have a dream...” (M.L.K. 16) Not everyone may hear what he is saying all the time, so repeating takes away from that issue. Also, it shows that he actually has a dream and that he wants it to stop. He has a dream that someday the World will be treating African Americans right, and that there will be no slaves! Last but not least, the Author used imagery. Some people learn/understand better using pictures. At the end of the speech, (He considers it a song) it names all if the places and describes them putting a picture in your mind. “Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped rockies of Colorado...” (M.L.K. 32,34) Martin Luther king doesn’t only this to change in one place, but all.

In “I have a Dream” by Martin Luther King, there was also a second point.

This point was to make sure that all men were to be created equal. All people were born the same and it is not right to treat one person different or better than another because of their skin color, or because how they act. Black and Whites were separated, not able to go to the same school, or even be friends. M. L. K. wanted a big change all throughout the world. It really shows who is being affected by what is really going on because children were even brought into this speech. Martin Luther King's family was even affected. In the speech “I have a dream” By Martin Luther King he also made a point that are meant all men are to be able to be created equal. You may think that one person is better than one another, but it is not true. Every single person is unique in their own way. Yes.Everyone is different, but that is what makes you, you. This problem in the world was caused by everyone. From people not being treated right, to people just letting it happen. People don’t try to fix this, they just go along with it because they're scared.They're scared that they will get judged or even hurt. In this speech, the author use pathos and allusions. in the speech “ I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King, he use pathos that helps his speech incredibly. The pathos used and added in a ton of emotion that was needed. “ 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.” (M.L.K. 20) This adds lots of emotion. Normally parents want to keep the kids out of the conversation so it doesn't become too much for them. This has gotten way out of hand and he has realized that nothing is going to change unless people understand-- people understand what younger people are even having to go through themselves. He knows that if he doesn't get his point across now, of everyone being equal, then it will not change ever. This will only change if the world really knows who this is affecting. In this speech he also used Allusions to make his speech even more powerful. This isn't the first time that something to be changed in the world. “Five score years ago, A Great, American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” (M.L.K. 2)The Emancipation Proclamation was also to show that the author wanted all men to be equal along with the Declaration of Independence, “When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution and the Declaration of Independence.” (M.L.K. 3) All of these speeches/documents show that multiple meaningful people want everyone to be created equal in many places through the world.

In the speech “I have a Dream” by Martin Luther King, there was one more final point that he was going to get across everyone’s mind throughout the World.

It was that all M.L.K. wanted was to create peace in the World. A long time ago people fought to their death to get a piece of land or who deserves it. Martin Luther King believed that violence wasn’t the answer. M.L.K. didn’t write this speech to be against a specific skin color. All M.L.K. wanted to do was to create a meaningful change through the world to make it a better and happier place. This problem was caused by everyone. The last device that M.L.K. used was sequencing/chronological. In this speech, he goes back to the Emancipation Proclamation and works his way forward. This helps because since the Emancipation Proclamation, not much has changed other that after M.L.K.’s speech. All M.L.K. wanted was to create peace in the

World.

The author’s purpose is to persuade the world to change, and in inform them about what is going on. The author’s point is to make african american cruelty to stop, make all men equal, and to create peace.