Summary Of To This Day By Shane Koyczan

Every teenager thinks that they have it the worst. That they've been through and seen everything. The truth is they haven't and they will only realize that when they become an adult. I recently read a speech given by a man named Shane Koyczan. He titled it "To This Day". When I started it, I thought he was going to tell me about his childhood, but then progressed onto the life of teens and what they go through. I liked this speech because I felt like so many teens could relate to it and it got me hooked to the speach itself and the spokesperson. In the end, he was trying to get a simple message to the certain people who thinks their life is bad. What I got from it, Koyczan was telling us to stop reflecting on the past and the bad things happening to you now, and look at the beautiful side to life and live it to the fullest. Koyczan was telling us that no matter what people say, we are amazing and beautiful just the way we are. He gave us hope.
To have a good speach, you need to get your audience's attention. One of the best ways to do that is to have good word choice. For example, a boring way to say that kids live bad moments in their life is by saying "kids live bad moments in their life". The audience already knows this, so a better way to say that is to have unique word choice. Koyczan does this by adding his own memories of his childhood and stories of his friends. This way he has more of an emotional touch than a boring one. Another example of word choice is that the author uses the word "you" in the speech often. Doing this, Koyczan is making a connection with the audience and touching on their own lives. An example of this is when he says "maybe you didn't belong to a group or a click. Maybe they decided to pick you last for basketball of everything. " This way the audience can reflect on their own past and become more emotional and touched to his