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In the essay, “Consider the Lobster,” the writer, David Foster Wallace, analyze the pain that Lobster’s feel when they are being cooked alive to be eaten by humans. The main point of the essay is to inform the readers about the issue of killing animas just for the benefit of our humanistic pleasure. The author used specific details. He is very detailed in informing the readers of how the Maine Lobster Festival has been celebrated. For 56 years at the Maine Lobster Festival, the enormous, pungent, and extremely well marketed festival that is held every late July in the state’s mid coast region, meaning the western side of Penobscot Bay, the nerve stem of Maine’s lobster industry. He foremost informed the reader a little background of the festival that has lasted for 56 years. …show more content…

In his introduction, the author has created the impression of controversies that wrapped the whole festival. In fact, he claimed that in 1800s people thought that lobster was literally low-class food, eaten only by the poor and institutionalized. His statement is purely descriptive but contentious to the readers who have acknowledged the savory of lobster as the recent all-time favorite of the many. Well, on the other hand, he was also fair and honest to tell the readers that now, lobster is posh, a delicacy, which is only a step or two down from caviar and the meat is richer and more substantial than most fish, and its taste is subtle compared to the marine-gaminess of mussels and clams. David Foster Wallace uses the comparative pattern in describing the lobster by comparing it from fish, mussels and

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The peruser can see this by his general harsh tone. His uses the tone to supplement his presentation since his theory was not about the lobster celebration but rather negating their activities of slaughtering lobsters. The utilization of the harsh tone makes the paper less formal, making his gathering of people for gourmet experts as well as for the overall population. While Wallace is by all accounts in supporting PETA and its endeavors, he is really befuddled about his own sentiment on the subject. He concedes that his decision of activity in these circumstances is to abstain from contemplating what's ethically

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