A Rhetorical Analysis Of Martin Luther King Speech

Perhaps the saddest thing that can ever happen to any friendship is to acknowledge a friend’s death. However, in 1968, when the death of Martin Luther King shocks the world, Robert Kennedy has to quickly control his hopelessness of losing a close friend and release the depressing news of a freedom fighter’s fall. In a chaotic time with intense racism and unstable society, Robert Kennedy’s speech successfully pacifies the world and reduces the possible conflicts with his deliberate use of a powerful speech that unified the world and at the same time remember Martin Luther King’s achievement. In Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy effectively uses ethos, pathos, and parallelism to create strong bonds of unity as Americans and encourage

Martin Luther King Jr., one of the chief proponents for racial equality, has just been assassinated. Robert Kennedy breaks this news to the crowd while championing the Martin Luther King Jr.’s cause. Kennedy wants to focus the crowds energy into “an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence.”’ He wants to encourage people to unite in the United States and close racial divisions. The last example is Coach Boone’s speech at Gettysburg from the movie, Remember the Titans.

Martin Luther King states “ Martin Luther King Junior dedicated his life to love and to justice for his fellow human beings, and he died because of that effort. “ This is a strong statement announcing his death. It was a tragic thing that had happened, and it provoked people to strive for justice. It was as if the power of the words in that statement caused people to not just be satisfied with the minimum. It provoked them to want to do more than what had already been done.

Which was non violence and protests. Kennedy used a lot of tools in his speech to make it more effective to his audience. The speech starts off by announcing the death, which causes the crowd to panic in shock and disbelief. According to the speech, Robert said “ I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.”. The crowd wanted to get revenge immediately as they were all angry and sad but Kennedy explains the options instead of violence.

In his emotionally charged speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. strongly urged and desperately pleaded with his audience through the use of allusion, metaphor, and repetition to champion for racial equality. King uses these methods to hopefully open the minds of his audience, and change their overall mindset on racial equality. Specifically, King intended to impact those listeners who continued to demonstrate strong beliefs not aligned with the equality of all men. Martin Luther King Jr. begins by using repetition to show how long the Negro has fought for freedom. MLK states “But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free.

Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr, in his speech, “I Have a Dream”, uses imagery, repetition, and similes to persuade the audience to support the civil rights movement and emphasize the importance of freedom to all. His purpose is to convince the audience to participate in the fight against racial discrimination. He adopts a passionate tone to initiate then strengthen his supporters’ beliefs on racial equality. Martin Luther King Jr. utilizes imagery to give the audience a strong picture of the current situation. He begins his speech with mentioning a founding father and the Emancipation Proclamation, stating, “this momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared by the flames of withering injustice.”

Robert F Kennedy, in Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 4th, 1968), argues that through tough times, no matter the color of one 's skin the nation needs to come together and support each other. He supports his claim by using repetition, allusion, and presentation skills. Kennedy’s purpose is to inform the audience of Martin Luther King Junior’s assassination and to convey the importance of coming together as a nation in order to get through the tragedy. Kennedy was advised not to attend the speech due to concerns of safety in the neighborhood, yet proceeded even when his security team did not. The speech was, other than a few notes, improvised.

Kiki Hsieh Ms. Marniel Botha English Literature 11M4 11 December 2015 I have a dream---Martin Luther King Martin Luther King (1929-1968) is the leader of the African-American civil right and social activist. He pursued peace for Whites and Blacks, and led African-American to achieve equality through nonviolence. He gave his speech in 28 August, 1963 by engaged civil rights from boycotts and protests to gain the victory. As a result, King presents to not only African-American but all Americans to appeals for the end of the racial segregation and discrimination. People who attended on this day were demanded to voting right and fight for jobs and freedom.

On the tragic evening of April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in Memphis, Tennessee and died. Kennedy is running for president when he learns of peace advocate, Martin Luther Jr.’s assassination. In the persuasive speech, “Robert Kennedy on the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr,” Kennedy uses all three rhetorical devices of ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade his audience to stay calm and work for peaceful solutions. Although all three devices are utilized, the two used most effectively are pathos and logos. Pathos is used to describe the ideal world Martin Luther King envisioned by influencing the audience's emotion.

Martin Luther King Jr., a minister and social activist, led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. He was an advocate for equality between all races and a civil and economic rights Activist. Because of his leadership, bravery and sacrifice to make the world a better place, Martin Luther King was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize. His incredible public speaking skills and ability to properly get his message across can clearly be scene throughout the speech. Tone: Dr. King delivered his speech at the university of Oslo in Oslo Norway in front of a large group of people.

Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential leaders of his time and played a crucial role in the African-American Civil Rights movement. Luther was a charismatic leader who took a firm stand against the oppressive and racist regime of the United States (US), devoting much of his life towards uniting the segregated African-American community of the US. His efforts to consolidate and harmonise the US into one country for all is reflected in many of his writings and speeches spanning his career. As a leader of his people, King took the stand to take radical measures to overcome the false promises of the sovereign government that had been addressing the issues of racial segregation through unimplemented transparent laws that did nothing to change the grim realities of the society. Hence, King’s works always had the recurring theme of the unity and strength of combined willpower.

“Martin Luther King JR dedicated his life to love and to justice for his fellow human beings,” is a quote that Robert F Kennedy spoke in the speech the assassination of Martin Luther King JR. Even though we have laws where oppression and unequal rights and treatment are illegal, oppression and racism are not always respected in America. This speech was most compelling to me because a white man named Robert F Kennedy was talking about how racism was wrong and how it should be ended. And he was also defending the African Americans and standing up for them.

On April 3rd, 1968, Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speech named “I 've Been to the Mountaintop”. Three days later, on April 6th, he was shot and killed. What lives long after his death is the message he spoke of during his movement for the achievement of equality for those of all races. He achieved in driving home his message by the use of his attitude(s) in his speeches, but most prevalently in his final speech. Dr. King’s overall attitude(s) to the importance of the sanitation workers’ strike, the direction of the civil rights movement, and the importance of equality are shown throughout his speech.

The speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the greatest demonstrations for freedom and equality in the history of the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American man who went through an age of being singled out by segregation, and it was only because of his color. The speech was given on August 28, 1963, on the Lincoln Memorial and it was the speech of all speeches to end all of racism and bring equality into America. The main idea of the speech was to emphasize the inequality of the colored people of the United States, and was to attempt to catch the countries attenion to attempt to recover the equality our nation needed. Martin Luther King Jr. described the need of this equality throughout the two paragraphs

Mr. Tim at Lexington started the speech by saying that It’s been an honor to speak about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the celebration day, He said he was nervous for the first time not about what’s he going to say, but because he has a perception of Dr. King which he went there to remember but he didn’t know about the rest of the folks that which Dr. King they all went to the celebration day to remember. One Dr. King in History but there are many Dr. King in memory as everyone has their own perception about Dr. King. He was not a secular saint as he was taken away from us through the hatred and hypocrisy of the people. Instances of 1961 and 1963 were remembered about the civil rights movement and treatment and the right of the