The evident purpose of the speech is to bring together all blacks and unify them, with faith in a fight for freedom. King’s hope was that blacks would flock toward his messa

King uses many literary devices, such as metaphor, to convey his ideas. King says, “with this faith we will be able to hew out the mountain of despair a stone of hope” (p41). The metaphor of despair as a mountain and finding a single stone, hope being this stone, gives the reader the sense of how exhausting, painful, demanding, and awesome achieving freedom would be. King also says, “sit together at the table of brotherhood” (p40). King paints the picture of equality and peace between whites and blacks. King’s metaphors throughout the speech put an emphasis on his strongest ideas.

ge of freedom, and ultimately intensify the black movement. Protest was one way the movement could be intensified. King says, “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence” (p40). King calls for blacks to resist the discrimination through protest, and to avoid physical violence in the fight for freedom. The protest King asks for is one of unity. The dream Kin

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