Martin Luther King on "why We Cannot Wait"

"Why We Can't Wait"

In the introduction to Martin Luther King's "Why We Can't Wait", he uses stylistic, narrative and persuasive devices to capture the reader's attention. The passage roughly describes the life for an African-American back in the 1960s. If you sit back and ponder upon that idea, the question "Why?" might come to mind. Why? What was King's reason to write this passage and how did he want to get it across to his audience? Well, let's analyze this through football knowledge.

As King attempts his pass of many stylistic ideas to his reader, they, the receiver catches the ideas and runs with it with wild imagination. King uses imagery in his passage to personalize this essay and give the reader another perspective to look at it from. He uses the little girl form Birmingham, who cares for six children and the little boy from Harlem who lives in a vermin-infested apartment with junkies and strange, dark figures