Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have A Dream

I’ve always wondered why Martin Luther King Jr. wanted freedom so badly, so let's go find out. The author wants to persuade us to treat everyone equally, and that the people can’t give up until we get treated equally. Martin Luther King Jr. speech, “I have a Dream”, was most compelling because he is trying to get equal rights for everyone by actually standing up to the cause and his speech usus good figurative language to back up what he is saying. In this speech there are many good points he wants to get across, but i'm going to go over the three main ideas; don’t fall into protesting with violence, people can go back home knowing all of this will be over, the Declaration states that everyone is equal but we don't follow those rules.

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He shares this by saying, “Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. This paragraph is saying that people are willing to do anything and go through anything just to get the freedom that they deserve, also that all people can go back home knowing that this will be over. This paragraph is supporting the central idea because it is saying that after this people will get the freedom they deserve and that everyone will finally be equal. Two devices that he used in this paragraph is diction and metaphor. The metaphor he uses is, “...quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.”The metaphor is comparing how bad this problem is to something more relatable like how police are beating them when they are doing stuff that isn’t even illegal like voting. He uses diction throughout the paragraph by using a unique word choice for most of his sentences like, “I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and