Heat
Throughout “I Have a Dream,” heat symbolizes the stifling and intolerable nature of racism. Martin Luther King Jr. first refers to the “sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent” early on in his speech. The…
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Hills and Mountains
Throughout “I Have a Dream,” King uses imagery of hills and mountains to invoke the future of the civil rights movement. Just as climbing a mountain requires enduring pain and difficulty in order to reach…
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