I Have A Dream By Martin Luther King Jr.
a. I chose Martin Luther King, Junior’s speech. The name of this speech is “I have a Dream” b. I listened to this speech in Chinese when I was in the middle school. I was attracted by this title-“I have a Dream”. This time, I want to listen it again in English in order to feel the original feeling of this speech. c. First, I am impressed by the introduction part of this speech. The opening is a powerful one and can stir up the listeners’ passion. When I heard it, I really want to know what he would say in the body parts. Second, I really enjoy the body parts, because he stated out what the situation he and his listener are facing. These things are the key ones for them, because they are related to their benefits. His speech can arouse
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First, in the opening, he said “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” And then, in this second paragraph, he said “But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.” This opening is directly to his mail opinion in this speech. He used the source to indicate what right they should have, but they didn’t get. This opening can let the audiences think about it in order to make the explanation in the next paragraphs. Second, he used check as the promise to describe how wonderful the promise is and then talked in a conversely way to say “It is obvious that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.” In this way, he aroused the audiences’ passion again. After this, he pointed out how to do to fight for their rights. The sentence “We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.” He used parallel construction to emphasize what he want this situation to be in the future as his goal. The construction is “we cannot be satisfied as long as……” Through these parallel sentences, I think the audiences know what they want exactly. Then, he stated his dream in a parallel construction. In the last part, he restated the freedom, such as “Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!” These sentences I
First, in the opening, he said “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” And then, in this second paragraph, he said “But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.” This opening is directly to his mail opinion in this speech. He used the source to indicate what right they should have, but they didn’t get. This opening can let the audiences think about it in order to make the explanation in the next paragraphs. Second, he used check as the promise to describe how wonderful the promise is and then talked in a conversely way to say “It is obvious that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.” In this way, he aroused the audiences’ passion again. After this, he pointed out how to do to fight for their rights. The sentence “We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.” He used parallel construction to emphasize what he want this situation to be in the future as his goal. The construction is “we cannot be satisfied as long as……” Through these parallel sentences, I think the audiences know what they want exactly. Then, he stated his dream in a parallel construction. In the last part, he restated the freedom, such as “Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!” These sentences I