Question

Write your reflection in brief ‘I have a dream ‘ in your words.

Answer 1

Answer:

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” – A direct reference to the biblical doctrine that man is created in the image of God Almighty, found in Genesis 1:26-28. Again, if there is no God, and/or he has not created us as equals, this is merely sloppy sentimentality utterly disconnected from reality and anchored in … thin air. If we are not divinely created, we are nothing more than random piles of molecules – white molecules and black molecules. Who cares how one pile of molecules treats a differently colored pile of molecules? Where would we even get abstract ideas such as “truth” and “equality”?

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” – An almost direct quote of Isaiah 40:4-5 from the King James Bible; a few words and phrases in verse 4 are juxtaposed.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

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Answer 2

Martin Luther King astounded America with his historic ‘I have a dream’ speech. His demand for racial justice and a unified society became mantra for the black community and is known to successive American generations as the US Declaration of Independence. In his speech, King stresses upon equality and presents hisl dream of an ideal non-racist community. The speech is divided into two halves. The first half shows the picture of seeing an American nightmare of racial injustice rather than an idealized American dream. It then makes a demand for action and sets some goals to achieve. The second half of the speech describes the dream of a better future – racial integrity and equilibrium. The King has a very sophisticated voice in the speech. He makes his speech effective by using several large and descriptive words rather than short and direct words. All around the speech, King uses various metaphors such as “America has given the Negro a bad check.” The speech is directed towards King’s fellow Americans. All over the speech, King makes use of the words, “our” and “we” when he refers to others. This shows that he is not speaking specifically to white or black Americans, but to the country as a whole. This is supported by, “must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers … their destiny is tied to ours,” and in the line “we cannot talk alone.” To increase the rhetorical effect in his speech, King uses a rhetorical device, “anaphora” in which words are repeated at the beginning of neighboring clauses. A pattern is set by repeating the words twice, and further repetitions signify the sequence and increase rhetorical effects. For instance, “I have a dream” is repeated in eight successive sentences. Moreover, King has made the clever use of repetition of key theme words throughout the body of his speech. For example king has used key words like “freedom,” “we,” “our,” “nation,” “America” “justice” and “dream,” to highlight important themes he has tried to discuss in his speech. In addition to the above, King has made extensive use of allusions in order to make his speech more credible. He starts his speech with “five score years ago …” which refers to Abraham Lincoln’s famous speech which began similarly, “Four score and seven years ago …” This allusion is particularly emotional given that King was speaking at the front of Lincoln’s Memorial. His fourth paragraph, “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness …” is a reference to the US Declaration of Independence. To provide the moral basis of his arguments, King uses numerous Biblical allusions. The allusion in the second paragraph, “It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity,” refers to Pslams, “For his anger is but for a moment; his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes in the morning.” [30:5] Further in the eighth paragraph, the allusion “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of hatred and bitterness …” alludes Jermiah “for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug out cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns that can hold no water.” [2:13] King provides numerous geographic references like “Mississippi,” “Georgia,” “Albama,” “California,” etc. throughout his speech. Mississippi is mentioned on four different occasions; King has logic and purpose behind this. He wants to evoke some of the strongest emotions and images for his audience relating to various incidents that would have taken place at the above mentioned places. Additionally, King uses generic geographic references like, “slums and ghettos of our northern cities,” “the south,” “from every mountainside,” and “from every village and every hamlet,” thus making his message more inclusive. To associate his speech concepts with concrete images and emotions, King has used Metaphors. For example, to contrast separation with racial justice, King uses the contrasting metaphors of dark and desolate valley (of separation) and sunlit path (of racial justice). He used metaphors in paragraph two, “joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity,” at paragraph three, “the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity,” at paragraph six, “rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice,” at paragraph seven, “This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality,” and at paragraph nineteen, “sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.” Hope it helps if yes marks are brainliest please!