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    Martin Luther King speech analysis

    The speech given by Martin Luther King is to convey the discrimination facing by
    Negro people. It is to inform that Emancipa(on Proclama(on was signed to stop
    the racial inequality, however, years passed but the white people’s discrimination
    over Negro’s hasn’t stopped. This speech argues to obtain freedom and justice to
    remove the racial inequality.

    This speech is aimed on the people in the nation, who gathered at their nation’s
    capital, ‘we've come to our na(on's capital’, the phrase ‘God's children’ was used to
    emphasise that his speech wants to be delivered to everyone but not only the black
    people.

    The speech was persuasive for people to come out of their boundary and take ac(on
    , as evident in phrases like ‘Now is the (me to make jus(ce a reality’, ‘Now is the (me
    to liC our na(on from the quicksands of racial injus(ce’. The speech delivered by him
    was formaEed in way star(ng with the introduc(on by telling the history of his
    country, ‘in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstra(on for freedom in
    the history of our na(on’ then started persuading his people telling them to fight for
    their jus(ce , ‘Now is the (me to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segrega(on
    to the sunlit path of racial jus(ce’ and gave a conclusion to inspire his people, ‘as we
    walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn
    back’

    The overall tone of this speech is diversified with complex of emotions, it


    expresses the determination to remove the racial inequality. A sense of
    frustration in the sentence ‘those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off
    steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to
    business as usual’ is shown for the justice which has not been given to Negros.

    In conclusion Martin Luther King’s speech is persuasive and inspiring to his


    audience/people and his speech aims at achieving racial equality and justice for
    his people.

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