I Have A Dream Ethos Pathos Logos

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If you mention the famous speeches, there is one famous speech you have to mention---it is I have a dream. "I have a dream" (I have a dream) is a very famous Martin Luther King speech published in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, a famous person in the world. He is the African American civil rights leader, 1929 January 15, was born in the city of Atlanta, Georgia a black family, he very speaking ability, and is the author of many books, the idea of the 1960s African American civil rights movement produced a significant impact, but unfortunately, he was assassinated at the age of 39 in the hotel.( Martin Luther King) At that time, there existed a big problem about racial discrimination, which …show more content…

Thus, you can easily think out that its main content is black ethnic equality and it expressed the black people desired for their rights of freedom and equality by dreams. Also, it has great influence on the United States and even the world. The other thing I would like to say is that Martin Luther King used many kinds of ethos, pathos, and logos to make “I have a dream” prefect and attract audiences. His speech can be divided into three parts. The first part is the review and that President Lincoln signed the "Emancipation Proclamation" of great significance. The second part is to reveal the status of black life, slated the dark side of society, put forward their legitimate demands. The third part is the description of dreams, in the future, for each freedom ring from the United States. In the first paragraph, he said Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Next paragraph, he said But one hundred years later… He used logos in these two sections. These two sections through …show more content…

He used pathos to express his feelings. He strongly expressed the desire to dream by repeating. This also expressed the theme that he responds black people to express the dream they want to have the same right as white people. Then, in twenty-fifth paragraph, he said This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with to translate the hope to the faith, and at the same time told them why he came here to have this speech. Then, he reminded freedom by a song to call people to know how important the freedom is! Next, in the same way, he used let freedom ring from many times to express black people should have freedom, they should not be slaves or people who have no power in the city. Also, he expressed that white people and black people can be friends because everyone should be equal in the world. At last, he said Free at last! Free at last! to emphasize free is important for black people, and they hope to be free in the future. Also, he said Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! to show they will be free in the future. This section is the prospect of the end and depicted as the sea diving, Eagles cleaved the sky. The author hopes his own imagination, the good vision of the future in every dream. These beautiful dream affable and full of inspiration, as delicate, yearning, climax of incisively and vividly, the expression of the

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