Timed write on ‘I Have a Dream’ by Martin Luther King In martin Luther King’s speech “I Have a Dream” the intended audience is essentially the general public. The speech also focuses down into influencing the African Americans to fight for their right and to change the views of poverty of powerful leaders. Therefore, the purpose of this speech is to provide a better future for the generation of tomorrow and to enable freedom in the grounds of America. This is conveyed on the last page of the speech where MLK say’s ‘let freedom ring—from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!’ This sentence is also an anaphora as ‘let freedom ring’ is emphasised twice in that sentence. Additionally, this speech is trying to make all coloured skin people become one and equal, so that African Americans can still have hope in their living. Furthermore, his words used prove the understanding of the social and political disruption. Moving onwards, ...
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