<p>I'm very sorry this is too long, but please, I really want to know the answer. </p>
<p>Passage 1 </p>
<pre><code> The ability of the I Have a Dream speech to high-
light Kings early career at the expense of his later career
accounts for the tone of impatience and betrayal that often
</code></pre>
<p>Line appears when modern-day supporters of Kings agenda talk
5 about the speech. Former Georgia state legislator Julian
Bond said in 1986 that commemorations of King seemed to
focus almost entirely on Martin Luther King the dreamer,
not on Martin King the antiwar activist, not on Martin King
the challenger of the economic order, not on Martin King
10 the opponent of apartheid, not on the complete Martin
Luther King. One King scholar has proposed a ten-year
moratorium on reading or listening to the I Have a Dream
speech, in the hopes that America will then discover the
rest of Kings legacy.
15 This proposal effectively concedes that Kings mag-
nificent address cannot be recovered from the misuse
and overquotation it has suffered since his death. But
it is not clear that this is so. Even now, upon hearing the
speech, one is struck by the many forms of Kings genius.
20 Many people can still remember the first time they heard
I Have a Dream, and they tend to speak of that memory
with the reverence reserved for a religious experience. At
the very least, reflecting on the I Have a Dream speech
should be an opportunity to be grateful for the astonishing
25 transformation of America that the freedom movement
wrought. In just under a decade, the civil rights move-
ment brought down a system of segregation that stood
essentially unaltered since Reconstruction. Kings dreams
of an America free from racial discrimination are still some
30 distance away, but it is astounding how far the nation has
come since that hot August day in 1963. Segregation in
the South has been dismantled; there are no longer
Whites Only signs; segregationist governors do not
try to prevent Black children from entering public schools.
35 Toward the end of his life, King preached a sermon entitled
Ingratitude, in which he called ingratitude one of the
greatest of all sins, because the sinner fail[s] to realize
his dependence on others. The annual Martin Luther King
holiday is properly a day of national thanksgiving, a time
40 for the nation to recognize the immense debt it owes to
King and the thousands of heroes of the civil rights
movement for saving the soul of America.</p>
<p>Passage 2 </p>
<pre><code> Martin Luther King was at his best when he was
willing to reshape the wisdom of many of his intellec-
</code></pre>
<p>45 tual predecessors. He ingeniously harnessed their ideas
to his views to advocate sweeping social change. He
believed that his early views on race failed to challenge
America fundamentally. He later confessed that he had
underestimated how deeply entrenched racism was in
50 America. If Black Americans could not depend on good-
will to create social change, they had to provoke social
change through bigger efforts at nonviolent direct action.
This meant that Blacks and their allies had to obtain
political power. They also had to try to restructure
55 American society, solving the riddles of poverty
and economic inequality.
This is not the image of King that is celebrated on
Martin Luther King Day. Many of Kings admirers are
uncomfortable with a focus on his mature beliefs. They
60 seek to deflect unfair attacks on Kings legacy by shroud-
ing him in the cloth of superhuman heroism. In truth, this
shroud is little more than romantic tissue. Kings image
has often suffered a sad fate. His strengths have been
needlessly exaggerated, his weaknesses wildly over-
65 played. Kings true legacy has been lost to cultural
amnesia. As a nation, we have emphasized Kings
aspiration to save America through inspiring words
and sacrificial deeds. Time and again we replay the
powerful image of King standing on a national stage
70 in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial mouthing per-
haps the most famous four words ever uttered by a Black
American: I have a dream. For most Americans, those
words capture Kings unique genius. They express his
immortal longing for freedom, a longing that is familiar
75 to every person who dares imagine a future beyond unjust
laws and unfair customs. The edifying universality of those
four wordswho hasnt dreamed, and who cannot identify
with people whose dreams of a better world are punished
with violence?helps to explain their durability. But those
80 words survive, too, because they comfort folk who would
rather entertain the dreams of unfree people than confront
their rage and despair.</p>
<p>The author of Passage 2 would most likely characterize the view of King expressed in lines 38-42 of Passage 1 (The annual . . . America) as
(A) contradictory
(B) insightful
(C) atypical
(D) simplistic
(E) arrogant</p>
<p>From CollegeBoard:
Choice (D) is correct. In these lines, the author of Passage 1 is expressing unqualified gratitude to King and to other civil rights leaders, saying that the annual holiday is properly a day of national thanksgiving. Because the author of Passage 2 says that Kings image is covered by a cloth of superhuman heroism, a romantic tissue, and that Kings strengths have been exaggerated, his weaknesses overplayed, it makes sense to say that this more temperate writer would consider the description from Passage 1 simplistic, or oversimplified to the point of lacking complexity.</p>
<p>I understood it this way: Passage 1 basically applauds King's struggle, while admitting the "I Have a Dream" speech has been over-quoted. The author of Passage 2 believes that King's image has been misrepresented; his other, more important struggles have been ignored. So, the author of Passage 2, would say to the quote: people don't celebrate his civil rights activism; they only remember his "I Have a Dream Speech". He would consider it "atypical" for people to celebrate his civil rights activism on his holiday. This became especially true to me when I read this sentence: "This is not the image of King that is celebrated on Martin Luther King Day." (first sentence of second paragraph of Passage 2).</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>