Throughout Krosoczka’s emotional speech he expressed lunch ladies’ appreciation and thankfulness for the recognition they had received because of Krosoczka’s new illustrated series. Specifically, many responses to Krosoczka were, “Thank you for creating a hero in our likeness.” And as he shared the inspiring stories of a summer “mobile feeding unit[s]”(Krosoczka, 1) and the impacts on America’s crime-fighting ladies in hairnets, the audience’s view on their lunch lady or any lunch lady had changed. They were not just people behind the counter serving food; They were someone of importance and purpose. Above all, he appealed to the audience’s emotions to persuade them that lunch ladies are heroes; the ones that do not need capes. Krosoczka speech was inspirational and emotional to make his audience reflect, furthermore, when introducing his topic he eased into it with a pinch of humor. Like most people, when they leave work they go home, but for Krosoczka he had always believed lunch ladies never left the cafeteria. “My lunch lady [...] left school at the end of the day? I thought she lived in the cafeteria with the serving spoons”(Krosoczka, 1). He used this kind of humor with the intention to mold a comfortable audience as he weaved his way into talking about “fish stick nunchucks” and “mutant mathletes”(1); not exactly a popular…show more content… In the beginning, he displayed his appreciation and humor through words like, “cafetorium” and “inspired”(1). Krosoczka then used repetition of the words “amazing”, “important”, and “thank you”(2), to emphasise how he felt about the work that had been done throughout cafeterias everywhere. The purpose of his word choice is for it to sink into the audience and inspired them. Krosoczka’s decision in word choice shifted from funny, to inspired, to appreciation, building up the audience’s emotions so it was easier for Krosoczka to
