In your famous inspirational and impacting speech âI Have a Dreamâ you strengthened your main point in a number of creative ways. You used many little techniques that took a while for me to pick up on but were brilliantly used. One major technique that you used that I picked up on was the use of your setting. In your speech you mentioned Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation (403), while the speech was taking place in Washington DC, at the Lincoln Memorial. This made the impact on your audience more illuminating, and it really caught my attention. This has shown how great of a man he is and his dedication to making his Dream a reality.
In both, âI Have a Dreamâ and âLetter from Birmingham Jailâ by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. they have few similarities and two huge differences. One huge difference that âI Have a Dreamâ has that âLetter from Birmingham Jailâ doesnât have is that Dr. King is emphasizing his âDreamâ, I feel like this is important because though his Dream is something that was with him for a while that he thought about he doesnât mention it in the Letter. Secondly, a huge difference is the delivery or the messages. The âI Have a Dreamâ speech is more like a poem than an essay. Because of his repetition of âI have a dreamâ and a little italicized portion on the final draft (407). Finally, a big similarity was that both the Dream speech and the Letter from Jail were for the same cause, Freedom and Rights. Though they were delivered differently.
