J.K. Rowling's Commencement speech undergoes several shifts in tone. One of those shifts occurs towards the beginning of the speech. She starts off nervous, and she willingly admits that she is nervous to the audience. Yet as the speech progresses, she takes on a more serious attitude as she begins to truly begin her speech. She progresses from talking about her life, to relating it the overall topics of her speech, failure and imagination. As she shifts from the changes of her life, and begins to tell the audience about the benefits of failure she becomes sincere, undergoing yet another change in tone. This shift is important because it allows the author to relate to the audience because she connects on an emotional level with them. Then, as her speech draws nearer to the end she develops more of a passionate tone. Although she was passionate throughout the entire commencement address, she was particularly passionate at the end, as she tried to emphasize the importance of failure and imagination. It was an important tone because if you are not passionate about what you believe in, then why would anybody else be.
Quixotic: extravagantly chivalrous, impractical
Paradoxical: self-contradictory
Totalitarian: of or pertaining to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life
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