I have a dream | Analysis

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of segregation and the chains of discrimination (...) no discrimination One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. → people feel like foreigners in their own country ; they don't have a chance to enjoy life because of having to snick L kicked out kicked out of somewhere →→symbolizes how Arican Americans fet [left out) treated as if they deserved to be separated from everybody else There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights: "When will you be satisfied?" rhetorical question =) underlines his motivation & his goals to end police brutality We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. (...) We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied and we will not be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, desire emphasized parrelism wants the audience to picture → his wish metaphor oasis of freedom and justice. (...) the possible future as a wonderful place dream.onaphora I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness similee like a mighty stream(...) negative connotaded words positive connotaded words It declared all slaves free (1863) Jim Crow Law (poll taxes, voter innimidation, tests) no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied present future the wish/dream of freedom will not change now and in future unni sth. is done underlines the heat, pain, suffering → light became flame (was not able to change sth.) -metaphor → feeling of capture / lostness in divide adresses everyone 7 > personal language → is supposed to make clear that the people can rely on king & his aims =>he really wants to change the situation & life for everybody in a positive (...) I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the way difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American metaphor explains how intensive the desire of achieving the aim is that's the dream wants to the measures he has planned will contribute to progress & equality encouragement / new hope and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. Declaration of Independence laid not become true for African Americans) And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. →beginning of the end of slavery →light of hope Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. => goal of his speech (to stop horrors) & entire cini lights. Movement segregatio Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California. 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: "Free repetition at last! Free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. metaphor bond between peo of peace & joy in the minds of the audience people of different evokes an I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi) a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an 4 in the brighter futur he magines, these things are no longer going to be a concern I have a dream today! today stands out, before, I have a dream..' => He wants change, but he thinks it's important to start today, not any other day (American Dream) → makes clear to people that they are not alone; recerve support. from him →king uses this metaphor to make his version of the dream more vivid connast between two absnact things mountains of America enumeration ↳he mennons diferent groups of people; although diferent, they are a community ↳emphasizes equality. religious language I shows his background) ↳ we are all dod's children (we shouldn't be separated, because of our diferences)