Passion in Writing for a Purpose

Passion in writing for a Purpose

When analyzing a written text there are a couple of things to look at. Does the author validate what they are writing? This question can be asked in order to figure out the different qualities of the essay itself. How does the author relay the massage? This is another question that can be asked from this analysis. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. explains his message very clearly in his text, The World House. Dr. King provides a lot of information to back his ideas and main thesis. He uses examples when he describes what he wants you to know. He is able to relay his message to the proper audience, which happens to be everyone in the world, but specifically to the African American people when he wrote the piece. He is able to set the tone and keep it from the beginning to the end. Dr. King is able to use audience, tone and language to relay his message.

“A family unduly separated in ideas, culture, and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.”(King, 338) The key here is to live with the people around you no matter what the differences between the people are. Whether the people in the house are of all different religions, cultures, ethnicities, and sexes, they must all be able to live together because they can not live without each other. He then mentions a citing from the Bible, where Moses is trying to free his people. “Let my people go,” says Moses, towards the pharaoh. (King, 340) This quote relates to his thesis and why he is writing this essay. Moses says this in order to let his people be free to live with everyone else and to be treated equal just like

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everyone else was at the time. It was their God given quality to be able to be free without restraints. He says that we shall all be able to live together because we are supposed to. This is effective for his audience to understand because they know the Bible. Also, he is a preacher so they know that it comes from a credible source when he writes. It is an effective way to quote from the Bible in this case in order to show how he lives his life but even further to explain the power which comes from within him. Another key point is the story of Rip Van Winkle. He puts emphasis on how he woke up twenty years later there was a different leader in the country and he was confused. He noted that he had slept through a revolution that changed the nation completely. The allusions that are used here are specific in order to help his audience understand what he trying to write. These writings are easy to understand and are each known very well to his audience. He is thus able to convey his message clearly to his audience.

King discusses about how we all need to live peacefully for the country to have order. He puts his main focus not only on the African American population but on the entire world. He is able to use ideas that come from all over the place in order for people to believe where he is coming from. “What we are seeing now is a freedom explosion,” (King, 340). This quote shows how he is taking his thoughts to a higher level showing that everyone around the world is working together to become free. His language is spoken clearly in these statements. He is able to show passion in the words that he uses and He says that the earth is now being redistributed, thus making it visible to the people that the rest of the world is coming together and getting along. This brings up the point that if everyone else in the world is coming together peacefully then why the African

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Americans shouldn’t come together with no problems? Dr. King also has a specific tone about his essay that sets it away from the others. In this his ideas are very clear from an outsider point of view. It seems as if he says it is not a decision that we live in peace or war, but the only option is to live in peace. He does not come out and directly say this but it is what is implied from the tone of the essay. Everything else is dying out so that there leaves only one way to fuse together and that is to become peaceful with everyone no matter whom they are or where they come from. The way he writes and the words that he uses make it feasible for