Think about all the people who do not receive recognition for the simple jobs that they do, to Jarrett Krosoczka, the lunch lady is just one of those under the radar everyday heroes. In 2001, Krosoczka depicted women in aprons, holding ladles as crime fighting heroes. His mass approval of lunch ladies also appeared in 2014 on TED, where Krosoczka further taught people to thank the everyday people in our lives. Remarkably, these fictional characters with capes turned into real life lunch ladies full of confidence due to the recognition they deserved. We may not always think about the faces behind our school lunches, but Jarrett Krosoczka showed us that even lunch ladies can be rockstars. Almost every single person has had school lunch, …show more content…
and more likely, a lunch lady. We have all just assumed that they live in those kitchens, slaving away for the next stampede of hungry children. We can all relate to this making it even more important to show these wonderful and dedicated people some appreciation. Krosoczka uses this relatable thought in his presentation, pulling at our heart strings and making us almost feel guilt for mistreating our lunch ladies. Krosoczka supports his claims using pathos, “What they all do is important” (4:31). They provide fuel for young minds and provide the comfort of knowing we will have a tray of food for lunch everyday. As relatable as Krosoczkas story is, he still needs to portrays a confident and concise headspace to connect to the people who are not phased by his current approach.
Keeping things professional, appropriate, and easily understood allows Krosoczka to break through the heavier armoured people in his crowd. Although his topic of lunch ladies may not seem all that professional, he still must continue to stay in character with proper tone and pristine imagery. Without the proper tone, his message could be received differently and defeats the purpose of drawing attention to the lunch ladies of our schools. Professionalism is also a sign of respect toward the lunch ladies, it shows that Krosoczka takes this seriously and wants others to see his argument for exactly what it is …show more content…
for. Another important aspect of Krosoczkas presentation is his sentence and word choice and how it influences the audience.
With the use of short sentences, Krosoczka can make quick points that move the story ahead such as, “I had never thought about any of that before” (0:11). His choice to use a shorter sentence adds more emotion and meaning to the work and pushes these feelings straight out into the audience. This helps him create the proper foundation of his story, while also allowing the audience members to think and relate to what has been said. There are also a diverse selection of other sentence lengths throughout the presentation. Using special words and complex sentences this allows Krosoczka to get straight to the guts of the argument with flow and expertise. Once again, all of these things add up to creating a perfect rendition of the long time ignored lunch lady who deserves
recognition. Reflecting on the authors use of tone, he also uses a decent amount of plausible diction. He fluxuates from formal to informal to keep everything professional and comfortable. It makes him likable to the audience. Without this leniency the audience could feel differently and could turn his heartwarming story in reverse. HIs story is about some of the sweetest women and men on the planet, if he gave a presentation full of serious intentions, the topic of the presentation would be strayed. His professional but also relaxed attitude makes for a compatible and meaningful argument. Closing in, Krosoczka has done a well job of making the audience feel happy, inspired, guilty, and also understanding through his story. An easily enjoyable essay and one that could have possibly changed a lot of people's minds. Our lunch ladies do need more recognition so good for Krosoczka for standing up for them and giving them a voice of their own. In doing this presentation, he did not do it for his own personal recognition, he did it for someone who deserved it. Hopefully more people, can find inspiration in his story to make a small difference, such as the lunch ladies he empowered through his words. For the thousands of lunch ladies across the world, Krosoczka sends them soaring into the sky, fictionally but also emotionally. Publishing these books about the women behind our school lunches helped open peoples eyes to the lack of respect we have given them. It also filled lunch ladies with the knowledge of knowing that they do make a difference no matter how small. Now it is our time to be superheros and give these women and men the recognition they deserve.
The writer has used a combination of narrative and descriptive styles of writing. He has used the descriptive style to give a step by step illustration on what a man should do, how he should behave and lastly what he should say from the beginning to the end of the story (Meyer 45). The narrative style comes into play as he adds in his characters, the conflicts they will face or words they will use and the settings and or challenges they will encounter throughout the short story. This
At a housekeeping job, Ehrenreich works with Carlie, and Ehrenreich thinks that the bag of hot dog buns that Carlie carries around is something she finds in one of the rooms while cleaning. Ehrenreich later discovers it is, “not trash salvaged from a checkout” (44), but it is Carlie’s lunch for the day. Ehrenreich displays how the reality of low working class can be unimaginable, based on Carlie’s lunch of hot dog buns. Working at The Maids, Ehrenreich often experiences similar situations. Ehrenreich notes, “we grab lunch - Doritos for Rosalie” (80). Rosalie does not have an actual lunch, she could only afford a bag of doritos. What she didn’t eat that day of the Doritos will be her lunch for the next day. Ehrenreich creates sympathy for Rosalie, because she spreads out one small bag of doritos for her lunch for two days. The same day, Ehrenreich encounters young women whose “lunch consists of a “pizza pocket”” (78). The pizza pocket was not an actual pizza, it was dough with some tomato sauce on it. It’s devastating that people who are putting in hard back breaking work do not have enough to eat. Ehrenreich would not consider Doritos or “pizza pocket” as her lunch, but as a snack during a break. Other than food expenses, employees have to think about health
[During the telling of the story there were no meaningful gestures, just pauses when the storyteller couldn't remember certain details, or when she wanted to take more sips of her macchiato. The storyteller did not relate the story with intonation or pitch changes, nor did her rate change. It was more like the stating of facts she knew.]
Most people will not recognize the name Stella Liebeck but say the words “hot coffee lawsuit” and recognition will be instant. The story is almost so well known that it has almost passed into the realm of urban legend or myth. And in the broad strokes it has become a bit of a myth. An old woman drives through a McDonald’s drive through, orders a cup of coffee and then promptly and recklessly spills the beverage all over her legs. Then in search of an easy payday she sues the restaurant for millions of dollars, ultimately walking away a millionaire with no more damage than a ruined pair of sweatpants. The story has been held up as a parable for what is wrong with America today. The well-worn story can be held up to serve as a totem pole for any number of issues. People don’t want to work for money anymore, just look at that hot coffee lady. People don’t want to take responsibility for their actions, just look at that hot coffee lady. People are idiots, look at that coffee lady. As it turns out, the “coffee lady” is a good story for examining the world we live in today, but not for the reasons that might be expected.
In this analysis, I’m going to make a comparison of the “Clever Manka” and “The Story of An Hour”, conflicts and their principal characters.
The fragment we were given is a three paragraph narration that has longer sentences at the beginning and little by little begins shortening them until by the final paragraph they are very short. The long sentences being used to slow down the time that will be very important in the passage and hence to build up the suspense and tension in the ambience until the sentences become short and speed up the time in the story, building the tension more and more to a point where it seems like something is coming or something will occur. The story is also told by a protagonist narrator which we know thanks to the use of the first person and the direct access to the character’s mind along with his feelings and thoughts. This narrator is retelling us the story (“I have naturally no wish to enlarge on this phase of my story. (…) I would have passed it over if I didn’t think that some account of it was necessary for a full understanding of what follows”[line 19-20]) of his trip over to Ransom’s house, a path which will trigger his paranoia and fear. The style of the writing is very direct as the narrator is practically in a one-sided dialogue with his readers.
In the simplest form, there is a basic structural pattern to narratives, as expressed through Tzvetan Todorov’s explanation of narrative movement between two equilibriums. A narrative begins in a stable position until something causes disequilibrium, however, by the end of the story, the equilibrium is re-established, though it is different than the beginning (O’Shaughnessy 1999: 268). Joseph Cam...
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His speech effortlessly flows from him meeting his elementary lunch lady Jeannie, to the creation of his graphic novel series, and the widespread effect the series has had on elementary schools around the country. This style eases the audience into the main message, allowing them to have time to get used to Krosoczka before being thrust into a world of facts and statistics. This also allows the reader to see the widespread effects caused by his simple meeting with Jeannie therefore convincing the audience of the broad improvements caused by small changes. Another way he persuades his audience is as he reflects on his experiences both in elementary school and the success of his program the audience reflects on their past as well. This vastly improves his argument, convincing his audience of the validity of his cause by showing the efforts he
In July of 2014, Jarrett J. Krosoczka spoke at a TED talk in New York City. The people who typically attend TED talks are executives and CEO’s. Krosoczka started off his speech “Why lunch ladies are heroes” by talking about how he returned to his elementary school and saw his old lunch lady. She inspired him to create a graphic novel series about lunch ladies being super heroes. The purpose of this speech was to convince more people to see the importance of lunch ladies. Jarrett Krosoczka uses pathos and compound- complex sentences to show the reasoning behind why the work that lunch ladies do deserves recognition.
Chopin uses varying sentence lengths to put emphasis on certain parts of the story. She calls attention to certain parts by creating lengthy sentences that go into specific detail. These types of sentences are often used for description, whether it be the person, place, or even atmosphere of a situation. On the other hand, Chopin can be concise when it comes to long complicated events, by summing them up in quick, simple statements, such as this paragraph from Chapter 8:
The narration is broken up into paragraphs of various lengths, all of which contain long and detailed sentences. E...
Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour is a brilliant short story of irony and emotion. The story demonstrates conflicts that take us through the character’s emotions as she finds out about the death of her husband. Without the well written series of conflicts and events this story, the reader would not understand the depth of Mrs. Mallard’s inner conflict and the resolution at the end of the story. The conflict allows us to follow the emotions and unfold the irony of the situation in “The Story of an Hour.”
It might be pertinent and helpful here to first discuss the structure of the narrative itself, for there are several elements in the sequencing of the discourse that contribute in no small way to the overall effect of the narration/narrator. The narrative begins in media res (beginning in the midst of the action at a crucial junct...
The traditional short story is a genre of a prose. It is a fiction work that presents a world in the moment of an unexpected change. The traditional short story obeys some rules, such as the unexpected change and major events with detail. The modern short story is a revolution which is based on the traditional short story. In other words, if the traditional short story is in the first floor, the modern short story is in the second floor. Therefore, the modern short story still obeys some rules that the traditional short story obeys, and breaks some rules that the traditional short story obeys. One rule that the modern short story still uses is the unexpected change. The rules broken by the modern short story are that the major events are not detailed, and that the border between the real world and the fiction world. This paper first talks about the unexcepted change and uses the examples of “Eveline” and “The Open Window.” Then, this paper talks about major events with detail, and uses the examples of “Lottery,” “The Open Window” and “Hills Like White Elephants.” Finally, this paper talks about the meta-literary and the border between the real world and the fiction