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“Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.-
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I’m
supposed to read up page 83 to 86 in the module and write a review about it.
It’s a speech written by Martin Luther King, Jr. entitled “I have a dream”. I’m sure everyone has a dream. It’s common to
humans.
Well, reading it is one difficult task. I kept asking myself, “What is
so special about this guy? What did he write? Why is he so famous? What is so
special about this speech?
I “googled” some information about it and
found out that this a 17-minute public
speech delivered on August
28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. during
the Civil Rights March
in which he called for racial
equality and an end to discrimination. It is then taken as an ideal model to stimulate
and inspire public speaking.
Wow! I got to read an ideal model of public
speaking. So, I took the effort and read the lengthy speech.
I need to be disciplined and stayed focus when I read it. After reading it, I
can say that this speech:
- is lengthy indeed, but it’s worth to read it;
- has a frequent repetition of “one hundred years later” (later I found out that it’s called anaphora);
- has repetitive words like freedom, Negro and dream (it’s also known as key themes);
- has metaphors to highlight the contrast between discrimination and justice that make it more interesting.
