Consider The Lobster Summary

Consider the lobster Everyone knows what a lobster is. A lobster is a marine crustacean of the family Homaridae, characterized by five pairs of jointed legs, the first pair terminating in large pincerish claws used for subduing prey. Like many other species of benthic carnivore, Lobsters and are both hunters and scavengers. Wallace talks about the MLF know as the Maine Lobster Festival. This is a festival that goes on every July, People come out and they boil lobsters and eat them. Wallace decides to tell readers how he feel about the MLF, and how he feel about the lobsters and how they are being treated. In 2005, David Foster writes an article called Considered the Lobster. In his article, he discusses the innocence of a lobster, and wonders how a person can be so cruel to capture and kill the lobster. Moved by the cruelty, he decides to write a concerning article about lobsters. In this article, Wallace informs and gets readers to think and to question their morality about the harm they are inflicting to the lobsters. Wallace wants his readers to know the difference between animal rights and rights activist. He did an exceptional job on this

He uses the appeal ethos in here because he explains how the festival is and the environment of being there. Wallace mentioned, “Over 25,000 pounds of fresh caught Maine lobster that is consumed in the main eating tent after being prepared in the world's largest lobster cooker” (Wallace, 50). They are boiled and served in many ways. He also describes some history about the lobsters. He tells readers back in the 1800’s; lobsters use to be a low class food and poor institutionalized ate them. “The name Lobster comes from the old English Loppestre. The name lobster comes from the old English loppestre, which is thought to be a corrupt form of the Latin word for locust combined with the Old English loppe, which meant spider” (Wallace,