Essay 2 Revision Reflection:

     MLK having the vision of being challenged with captivating his listeners appeal and senses relating to the skillful technique of imagery, using frequent metaphors through his figurative language to motivate and inform his audience through his speech particularly (“I Have a Dream’’ MLK Jr.) has demonstrated his ability to move his intended listeners in a profoundly impactful way all the while still connecting relevant modern-day issues and topics such as the normalized life of discrimination and the sub consequently unfortunate altercations of segregation as a whole portrayed through mastering the framework of pathos and ethos. It can be inferred through the transitions used of ethos using his prior knowledge of his intended listening audience and the occasion of what would be considered a credibly reliable way to build the bridge of using first-person experiences. For instance, one such sprucing from the Declaration of Independence connects his listeners’ ethical appeal, of not just equality but of the mobility to roam freely with natural and unalienable rights, also backing up MLK’s original standpoint that he advocating for his original catchphrase of “I Have a Dream”. MLK approaches his strategy of engaging his viewers’ senses and appealing to emotion with much optimism, he also didn’t fail to recognize and acknowledge the distress and downfall of the inevitable future that is in store for generations to face and confront, through careful use of pathos. This was most specifically used through his informing speeches about discrimination, revolving around what his four children growing up in an unwelcoming environment will have to endure, learn, and overcome obstacles and hardships like no other may enlighten the viewers’ sympathetic imagination and structure a new point of view when it came to what is more significant of value at the time. MLK used pathos consistently in a period where it was most desperately needed as it was controversially a puzzling subject on what was truly the right path within the Civil rights movement,  from the ’50s-’60s juggling between both the segregational tensions of North and the South’s divisions, needing advocacy for a better-instituted mindset and first-hand witnesses and experiences shared such as MLK himself.