Why Lunch Ladies Are Heroes

Jarrett J. Krosoczka gave an impacting Ted speech known as “Why Lunch Ladies Are Heroes”, to a TED audience in July of 2014. Jarrett Krosoczka, author and illustrator, decided to visit his old elementary school after publishing his first children’s book in 2001 to talk to the students about being an author and ended up running into his old lady. After bumping into his past lunch lady he realizes how much of a dedicated worker she was and becomes inspired to make sure everyone knows how hard lunch ladies work. Through his work Krosoczka writes a “Lunch Lady” book series and spreads awareness of just how much lunch ladies should be appreciated worldwide. Krosoczka does a fantastic job at engaging his audience with his strong structure of persuasion

The author develops the persuasion of logic in his speech by at first mentioning his personal experience with his old elementary school lunch lady and how it inspired him to write the “Lunch Lady” series. By mentioning his own personal experience it helped him relate with the audience. One example of when he used pathos in his speech was, “Well that chance encounter inspired my imagination, and I created the Lunch Lady graphic novel series, a series of comics about a lunch lady who uses her fish stick nunchucks to fight off evil cyborg substitutes, a school bus monster, and mutant mathletes, and the end of every book, they get the bad guy with their hair net, and they proclaim, “Justice is Served!”” (Krosoczka 1). This quote displays the use of pathos because he talks about how the interaction with his lunch lady inspired him to write the series and spread awareness about the importance of their work around the

He develops the tone by using a descriptive story of running into his past lunch lady and why lunch ladies are important. Krosoczka uses a strong emotional tone because he knows that people of the audience are most likely close to his age and also have kids. This has the audience thinking about how they also want their kids to have his relationship with the lunch lady and how to appreciate them. The writer of the speech, Krosoczka is a known author which causes him to come across as knowledgeable and also creates more persuasiveness to the argument. As a way to arrange his ideas the author organized his speech from least important to most important. Such as talking about his old lunch lady to creating a fiction book series involving heroic lunch ladies. By using this arrangement it allowed Krosoczka to keep his speech moving forward and come together towards the end. The structure also kept the reader engaged and understanding of how his story came to be. It is also meaningful to the audience because the author talks about an experience from his past and how it inspired him to achieve something