Review Of Jarrett Krosoczka's Speech Why Lunch Ladies Are Heroes

In July of 2014, Jarrett Krosoczka gave a highly persuasive speech about an unusual topic: lunch ladies. This speech, titled “Why Lunch Ladies are Heroes,” uses tales if why lunch ladies going beyond just cooking food to change the audience of sophisticated people for the better. He also teaches how a person can change the life of a lunch lady. Lunch ladies are not thanked enough, and he is speaking out to change that. Krosoczka is greatly influential in the topic of lunch ladies and uses strong emotional stories and crafty informal language to change people. Lunch ladies are important is conveyed throughout Krosoczka’s speech by his use of heart-warming stories and abstract remarks. Krosoczka is extremely effective at holding an audience's

This quickly gives the audience a feel for the way Krosoczka goes about life. He then opens up his speech to broader generalizations. With this, he invites the audience in and connects to them. Since he has now connected with the audience , he then shows them different time lunch ladies have done extraordinary acts and changed lives. This then opens up the audience’s eyes to what they can also do, and how they can change people’s lives. At the end, he encourages the audience to do what people in his stories have done. His unique way was effective in grabbing the audience and persuading them into a whole new

His speech may have been written for children to understand, but it allowed a group of highly intelligent people to take a break and enjoy the speech. In Krosoczka’s opening story he states, “ I returned to my elementary school to talk to the students about being an author and illustrator, and when I was setting up my slide projector in the cafetorium, I looked across the room, and there she was: my old lunch lady” (1). This is a light-hearted way of opening a speech. By doing this he broke the tension in the room, and he allowed for more connections with the