“I have a dream” spoken by Martin Luther King Jr. was verbalized in 1963 on August 28. It was a national turning point for America. In his speech, he uses many literary expressions to portray his beliefs such as Metaphors and Allusions. These are heavily used to depict his ideas about the injustices of African American people and where these injustices thrive. Martin Luther King was an activist for civil rights. He, along with many, wanted to bring to light the terrible injustices that belong to an African American. He uses many metaphors to paint a vivid picture of the world as he saw it. In his speech he declared, “This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.” He uses this metaphor to compare the time a segregation to a excruciating summer. He expresses that people will not rest until they are all considered equal. This time would be joyous just like the autumn, out of the heat and suffering. Later in the speech, Dr. King also states,”The …show more content…
One of the most major problems of Dr. King’s time was police brutality. Police brutality showed up many times in his speech. He states, “Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.“ He compares strong winds to the persistence of the police. This attracts the reader and creates a deeper meaning to his speech. Earlier in his speech he talks about the lives of an African American being like the life of a person excluded to an island alone and mistreated. He states,” Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.” This shows that the life of an African American is like being stuck on an island surrounded by opportunity and disenthrallment yet they’re stuck on the island filled with