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Analyzing The Essay 'Consider The Lobster' By David Foster Wallace

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The essay I chose was “Consider the Lobster” by David Foster Wallace published in August 2004. The purpose of the essay is to point out the consideration and suffering of the lobster and more specifically, he uses the Maine Lobster Festival as an example. His introduction begins with the background and culture of the MLB. He even goes in to detail about the paid attendance of the festival, all the festivities that are held. From carnival rides to a parade and he even stated the amount of fresh caught lobsters (25,000). One of the descriptive patterns I noticed in the essay is when Wallace stated that “And they are-particularly in their natural brown-green state, brandishing their claws like weapon and with thick antennae awhip- not nice to
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