Response to The Last Lecture

I think that the way he communicated his message was great. He was very engaging and he kept his audience interested in what he was saying. The fact that he let everyone know that he was sick at the beginning of the lecture added to the importance of the lecture. It gave the audience even more incentive to listen to what he was saying. Even though he didn't want people to pity him it's impossible for people not to feel sorry for him. So by stating that he is dying he immediately appealed to his audience's emotions. There are two reasons why I think he chose a lecture format as his platform  to send out his final message. The first is that he is a professor and that's what he does. If you are sending out your final message you want to be in your comfort zone. If he was a writer I'm pretty sure he would've wrote a book to do it. The second reason is that a lecture is more personal and it allows people to see who he really is. He is able to really connect with his audience this way.