

By presenting himself as a detached narrator, Obama can, free from his identity as a senator, voice with disdain his thoughts on sensationalist media and his disappointed expectations regarding his colleague’s style-over-substance manner of politics. Obama establishes the dichotomy of truth and lies, makes use of parallelism to reinforce his points, and employs careful diction meant to showcase his concerns with politics as usual. In The Audacity of Hope, the 2006 book by Barack Obama, he strives to take a similar role to the harpist, commenting on the current state of Washington politics, while throwing out suggestions and ideas for a better future. In that sermon Wright speaks of a harpist on a mountain looking down at the world, but also daring to hope for a better future. In his memoirs Dreams from my Father it is the title of a sermon that Reverend Wright gives.

“The Audacity of Hope” was not originally a book by Barack Obama.
