Rhetorical Analysis Of School Lunch Ladies

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Jarrett J. Krosoczka spoke at a Ted talk in July of 2014 about why lunch ladies are heroes. He is a children’s book author and he created the Lunch Lady graphic novel series in honor of his old lunch lady, Jeannie. From the series, he has been able to bring awareness towards the lunch ladies and how important they are. Every school has a lunch staff that feeds all of the students every day and they rarely get a thanks for all their work. Thanks to Krosoczka there is now a day dedicated to celebrating the lunch staff’s hard work and they are very thankful. In his speech he argues the importance of appreciating the lunch staff’s hard work by using pathos and a sincere and inspirational tone. Krosoczka uses pathos to persuade the audience. He said, “For me, I was so moved by the response that came from the lunch ladies, because one woman said to me, she …show more content…

He stays on topic through the entirety of the speech and all of his evidence and ideas support his claim of why we should thank our lunch staff. The only thing that might contradict him is his statement of not waiting until school lunch hero day to thank the lunch staff even though he created that day specifically for that task he said, “I hope that you don’t wait for School Lunch Hero Day to say thank you to your lunch staff, and I hope that you remember how powerful a thank you can be. A thank you can change a life. It changes the life of the person who receives it, and it changes the life ofthe person who expresses it”(Krosoczka 2). Although his statement slightly contradicts what he created it still ties into his main idea of showing appreciation to the lunch staff. Throughout his speech he ties in some facts and stories that add credibility to his argument. Some common ground he used was the story of what kids have done since he released his Lunch Lady series. They have made little projects and cards shaped in different foods saying thank

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