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Rhetorical Analysis Of Consider The Lobster

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Should We Consider The Lobster? Evaluative Essay About Wallace Article. I consider myself a food lover, and I also enjoy cooking. I love to cook elaborated dishes that I find on the Internet and magazines. One day I was curious of how to cook lobster, and when I started to read the magazine and how it explained that I had to cook the lobster alive my mind panicked and I did not continue reading. I am always questioning why we have to cook lobsters alive? And, do lobsters feel pain when they are in the boiling water? The article of David Foster Wallace “Consider The Lobster” claims that lobsters can feel pain and there is a moral implication about cooking them alive. Wallace’s argument tries to convince his audience effectively with an strong appeal to ethos, pathos, and logos. David Foster Wallace starts his article with an introduction to the Main Lobster Festival that is held every July, and that it accomplished its 56th anniversary on 2003. At the beginning, he reviews all the attractions and a variety of lobster’s dishes that spectators can find at the festival. In addition, Wallace balances his article with a detailed background about lobsters. He discusses the taxonomy of lobsters, the long history that these animals have faced, and the way lobster is cooked …show more content…

Wallace comments “Try to imagine a Nebraska Beef Festival at which part of the festivities is watching trucks pull up and the live cattle get driven down the ramp and slaughtered right there on the World’s Largest Killing Floor or something” (5). This sentence is one of the analogies that the author uses to support his claim, where he compares the Main Lobster Festival, where people watch how lobsters are cooked alive and it does not bother them, but if the situations presented in the sentence could happen, people would be horrified about

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