The structure of the speech is intended to address the three audiences most likely to hear King's speech: average blacks who are discriminated against, average whites who discriminate, and black militants. In the first part of his speech, King carefully paints a picture of the plight of the ordinary African American. Early in the essay, King states that black life is “crippled by the shackles of segregation and the shackles of discrimination” and that blacks live on “a lonely island of poverty” in a “vast ocean of material resources.” prosperity." This forces whites to put themselves in the shoes of blacks, seeing their own actions and inducing remorse for their transgressions. Later, near the end of his speech, King continues to "preach" this point, stating that he dreams that " Black boys and girls can join with white boys and girls as sisters and brothers.” In this way King intends to state that the majority of the civil rights movement does not support black militants and that the movement is intent on achieving its goals in a nonviolent way. This also makes whites uncomfortable, causing them to think that black people are not really the savages they think they are and are instead dignified and honorable people who continue to endure all the cruelty that white people have thrown at them..