Assignment task:
Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. cowrote his "I Have a Dream" speech with his close confidant Clarence Jones. In 2011, Clarence Jones and Stuart Connelly published Behind the Dream, a behind-the-scenes account of the weeks leading up to King's delivery of that speech at the March on Washington.1 The following passage is an excerpt from the prologue to Behind the Dream. Read the passage carefully. Write an essay that analyzes the rhetorical choices Jones makes to achieve his purpose of introducing the reader to the book.
Write an essay that analyzes the rhetorical choices Jones makes to achieve his purpose of introducing the reader to the book.