Preston Lefevre Ms. Comos ELA 11 March 2024.
The “Beyond Vietnam” Martin Luther King Essay War is a subject that will always cause disagreements, whether it’s what the country is fighting for, who the country is fighting for or if the country should be fighting or not. But possibly the most controversial war in the history of the United States is the Vietnam War, which Martin Luther King Jr. discusses in his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, given on April 4th, 1967 in Riverside Church. King uses serious tones along with the use of ethos and metaphors in an attempt to win his audience over. The first piece of evidence comes when King opens up the speech by informing his audience about his ethos. “Since I am a preacher by calling” King then goes on to talk about the reasons for his beliefs, he seems to be using this quote as a way to almost give the crowd a reason that he is notable, a reason to listen to him despite the only piece of …show more content…
Despite this probably being the best example of the ethos being used in this speech, it is not the only one. Later on in the speech King claims that the war is a war on African American people, more than it was on Vietnam, he uses a metaphor to get across this point by saying “And so we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching black and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools.” He says this in an attempt to connect to all the families the war could be affecting and lays another point across saying that if the war is not over, it is a war on African American these people wouldn’t even be living in the same city together. why would they be fighting
The “Beyond Vietnam” Martin Luther King Essay War is a subject that will always cause disagreements, whether it’s what the country is fighting for, who the country is fighting for or if the country should be fighting or not. But possibly the most controversial war in the history of the United States is the Vietnam War, which Martin Luther King Jr. discusses in his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, given on April 4th, 1967 in Riverside Church. King uses serious tones along with the use of ethos and metaphors in an attempt to win his audience over. The first piece of evidence comes when King opens up the speech by informing his audience about his ethos. “Since I am a preacher by calling” King then goes on to talk about the reasons for his beliefs, he seems to be using this quote as a way to almost give the crowd a reason that he is notable, a reason to listen to him despite the only piece of …show more content…
Despite this probably being the best example of the ethos being used in this speech, it is not the only one. Later on in the speech King claims that the war is a war on African American people, more than it was on Vietnam, he uses a metaphor to get across this point by saying “And so we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching black and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools.” He says this in an attempt to connect to all the families the war could be affecting and lays another point across saying that if the war is not over, it is a war on African American these people wouldn’t even be living in the same city together. why would they be fighting