Question

What is the effect of King comparing freedom movement to the flight of an airplane in paragraphs 10 and 11?

Answer 1

Martin Luther King, Jr. is such as important character not only in American, but in global society, because thanks to him may, unlike him, could live in a world where social status and, mainly, skin colour were not important. In other words, the impact of his acts influenced thousands of people.

Nevertheless, it is important to state that King was not alone in his fight for equality. So that, when recieving Nobel Prize, King gave a speech in which in a metaphorical way he thanked and recognised the work that other participants of the Freedom Movement had made. In this way, the well operation of an airplaine depends not only on the machine by itself, and neither on the pilot; but there are people on land managing and controlling so many different things that make possible the goal of transporting the plane and people to the destination successful. In that way, the plane can be related to the movement itself and King considered only as a pilot who need many other people working hard to achieve the destination that would be freedom.

Answer 2

By comparing the freedom movement to the flight of an airplane in MLK's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, King recognizes all of the people who made the movement possible. When talking about the flight, he mentions all of the personnel, not just the pilot but all of the ground crew who are rarely seen, that make the flight successful. He is pointing out that the freedom movement couldn't have been successful without all of the people in the background.