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The story Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King is an example of great writing.
King utilizes emotive imagery, symbols, rhetorical questions, stylistic, narrative, and persuasive
devices to describe the social conditions and mind set of many African Americans in the 1960's.
He persuades the reader to agree with his ideas by stating the facts, past and present, about how
African Americans were forced into helping build this nation when they arrived on slave ships,
but even after the Emancipation Proclamation, the Negro was still not free. He tells of the
hardships of African Americans of that time, and why they could not wait any longer for
freedom.
In this writing King tells of a little boy and a little girl; one living in Harlem, and the
other in Birmingham. Although they are in totally different parts of the country, they both endure
the same problems and horrid conditions. The boy lives in a vermin-infested apartment house,
where the scent of garbage fills......

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