Tone

= The types of tone he uses in his speech is being informative and passionate. Although, when you listen to his speech you can hear the passion in his voice and how much he cares for this nation and wants us to be a united nation, blacks and whites combined. = = “And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.” = = “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; ‘and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.’” = = “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.” = = “But one hundred years later, the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.” = = How do you think Abraham Lincoln would’ve felt if he saw our country how it was during King’s time and then in our time now? = = Do you feel that Lincoln was the basis for helping unite the blacks? If so, how do you think he has changed the views of many slaveholders then and white people now? =
 * = Represented in these quotes shows the passion he has for this country to be united and the dream that is to be seen in America. =
 * = In the beginning of his speech he informs the audience of the struggle for emancipation that has been going on for over one hundred years. He uses this information about the Emancipation Proclamation to remind the audience how the blacks still haven’t earned the true equality that they wanted for so long. =