The article, Consider the Lobster, was very interesting. It started out kind of bland but I learned a lot about cooking lobsters and the annual Lobster Festival that takes place in Maine. I think that by writing this article the author was not only wanting to advertise the annual Main Lobster Festival, but he also wanted to inform his readers on different ways that lobsters are cooked. He wanted to discuss his opinion on boiling lobsters alive. He believed that it may sound inhumane, but then he provided background information to show why he believes it is not. At the beginning of the article the author writes about the annual Main Lobster Festival. He compares this festival to a mid-town county fair. Although, instead of having greasy corn
In his article “Consider the Lobster”, David Foster Wallace uses the Maine Lobster Festival as a medium for his argument regarding the ethics of eating lobster. Wallace frames his article as a conversation just to get people thinking, but a deeper look at his rhetoric shows that he is arguing against the inhumanities of eating lobster, while doing everything he can to avoid sounding like he is taking a stance.
The city hosts the annual North Carolina Potato Festival, the region’s most significant yield. Originally, event organizers named the festival the Albemarle Potato Festival. The events take place in May. Each year, participants gather at the festival to participate in the National Potato Peeling Contest and participate in family friendly activities. Today, the festival is the largest regional event in North Carolina.
Although some readers may disagree with him and assert that boiling lobsters alive cannot be considered a moral decision, Wallace finds it critical to point out some of the phenomenon that comes out of the Maine Lobster Festival (MLF). He argues that people are either denying or avoiding the fact that lobsters, are just like humans, are able to feel pain. Thus, he pushes his readers to think that cooking lobsters does involve ethical considerations. In the article, Wallace talks about a story happened on the night before the MLF opened – an informal interview to a cabdriver, Dick.
Not an oyster bought from the reputable market, no Paul Greenberg ate an oyster he harvested himself from the shore of a Bronx outlet. In 2005, the United States imported nearly twice as much seafood as twenty years earlier. During that same time American seafood exports have quadrupled. Our narrator's travels took him to New York’s Jamaica Bay, Vietnam, to the Gulf of Mexico, and to Alaska’s Bristol Bay. During his trials Greenberg dove, he observed the effect of the BP oil spill on bayou country, he watched the salmon runs in Alaska threatened by a copper-mine, and played with shrimp in mangrove
The website for SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment is speaking towards anyone that has seen the documentary BlackFish, or anyone who thinks that SeaWorld is abusing or mistreating the orcas or other animals by keeping them in captivity. They also attract the corporate side of SeaWorld as a business. The website gives information about what the business does to give back to the community, how their animals are treated and shows their credibility to draw in customers. The tab titled “The truth about Blackfish” states multiple points about how the producers of the documentary were lying about their facts or over exaggerating to appeal to multiple viewers. The purpose is to fight back against
In his essay Consider the Lobster, it’s apparent what David Foster Wallace is trying to tell his audience: we should really think about the lobster’s point of view before cooking and eating it. Wallace uses multiple rhetorical strategies to get his point across, including pathos and ethos. His essay is very good in how it gets its point across, and how it forces even the largest lobster consumers to truly contemplate how the lobster might react being boiled alive. It brings up many controversial topics of animal rights that many people tend to avoid, especially people who are major carnivores. Wallace’s use of rhetorical strategies really gets the reader thinking, and thoroughly captures the argument of many vegetarians against the consumption of animals. Wallace captures the use of pathos in his essay and uses it in a way that is incredibly convincing to the reader. For example, he compares the Maine Lobster Festival to how a Nebraska Beef Festival could be, stating, “at which part of the festivities is watching trucks pull up and the live cattle get driven down the ramp and slaughtered right there…” (Wallace 700). Playing off of people’s natural tendency to feel bad for the cattle, he shows that the killing of lobster is, in reality, no different than the killing of cattle, but we treat it much differently. We tend to think that lobsters are different because they are less human than cows are, and, maybe to make us feel better about our senseless killing of an animal,
Another way Wallace gets his point across to his reader is by using ethos He is writing about a subject which is largely related to emotions. Wallace gives specific details about how lobsters act like when they are being boiled alive. He states, “The lobster will sometimes cling to the container’s sides or even to hook its claws over the kettle’s rim like a person trying to keep from going over the edge of a roof” (Wallace, 1465). This intimidating quote gives the reader a sense of pain that lobsters experience when they are being prepared for consumer’s desire. Wallace shows how inhumane an overall cooking method can be through his descriptive writing. In addition to this, Wallace proves his point again when he states, “the lobster, in other words, behaves very much as you or I would behave if we were plunged into boiling water” (Wallace, 1466). This is an absolutely effective method to gain ethos by comparing an animal which most people consider food closely to human interaction. Yet again, Wallace gives pathos by playing off with people natural habits of feeling bad for the cattle by comparing the Maine Lobster Festival with Nebraska Beef Festival. He says, “At which part of the festivities is watching trucks pull up and the live cattle get driven down the ramp and slaughtered right there” (Wallace, 1465). This shows that
He is not even trying to persuade the reader to stop eating lobster. Wallace is trying to give different perspectives to a audience that most likely eats lobster. He effectively does this to a audience that will probably support some of the things he is saying through the use of rhetorical devices. He use pathos to try to make the readers feel different emotions on eating and killing lobsters. The author uses ethics in a special way by using a plethora of research and sophisticated writing to make his ideals seem credible to the audience. Lastly, Wallace uses logos in his article by putting loads of scientific information that helps support his argument on lobsters. This article was made for a tough audience that probably majority if not all eat or has eaten lobster. It doesn't really matter to this audience and will not change their opinions but the article was made to make them think more about the next time they decide to eat
The article was well-written and it’s a narrative and argumentative article although the author argument appears to be more ethical rather rational. The article begin in an unexpected way which is telling stories about his life he mentioned his grandmother which adds to the argument an high emotional tone but his calls to the reasons are weak. The main idea of the article was understood and it supported with personal experience overall, the article was well structured and the language used in the article was simple and informal although he clearly supported one side of the argument which is we shouldn’t harm animals also Foer ignores the fact animals protein is essential for humans so it seems little bit unfair and biased. Foer appeals repeatedly to emotionally tone, to raise compassion to creatures Foer attempts to inspire compelling feelings in the audience. The article contained huge amount of pathos due to the fact he shares his own personal story about his childhood memories how he admires his grandmother and her special dish chicken with carrot, his teenagers years as a confused teen searching for his identity leading to meeting his wife and having first baby. He sometimes appealed to logos by stating some facts “According to an analysis of U.S.D.A data by the advocacy group farm forward, factory farms now produce more than 99 percent of the animals eaten in this
Lobstering is in my blood. It is what supports my family and most of my town. I have been doing it my whole life i’ve had a lobster license since i was 8 years old which is as young as you can get one. I love summer just for lobstering season plus I like the money outcome. I hate school starting the most because it tires me out because I play football everyday except sundays and some saturdays so i have to wake up early and haul on my days off from school.
Crawfish are delicious crustaceans that closely resemble lobsters. Many people consider crawfish to be as delicious as lobsters, which is why these crustaceans are harvested all over the world. In the U.S., crawfish are closely associated with the haute cuisine and culture of Louisiana. In fact, crawfish are the official crustacean of the state. I normally prefer to harvest or purchase crawfish on the day I intend to cook them. However, many people prefer to purchase and eat them later but do not know how to keep crawfish alive in a sack or container for several days before finally preparing and eating them. Fortunately, I will provide you with some tips on how I keep my crawfish fresh and healthy
I can vividly remember playing a game of ‘Go-Fish!’ with my Father. I began to grumble because my hand contained no matches and all around bad cards. My father consoled me by saying, “It's not about the cards you're dealt, but about how you play the hand.” As a 5 year old, I would have much rather preferred my father slipping me a wildcard than hearing some foreign metaphor; however, this is the exact philosophy that will determine my life successful when I reflect in 30 years.
He writes: “The lobster will sometimes cling to the container’s sides or even to hook its claws over the kettle’s rim like a person trying to keep from going over the edge of a roof.” This imagery uses a simile that horrifies the readers because it lets the readers feel like that they are the lobsters, and they are being cooked. Wallace uses this sentence to place the readers in the lobsters’ position and let them experience the pain. Later on, Wallace also says: “the lobster, in other words, behaves very much as you or I would behave if we were plunged into boiling water.” By making the connection between lobsters and human, Wallace knows that this would change people’s opinion towards cooking lobsters. Connecting lobsters’ death to humans’ is an effective way of using pathos to make people think whether eating lobsters is an appropriate matter. This shows how human preferences leads to lobsters’ suffering. Wallace not only uses pathos to make the readers think whether eating lobster is the right thing to do but also uses ethos to make him more credible and thus readers will listen to his
The gluttonous lords of the land capture those who are unable to defend themselves, boil the captives alive, and then feast on their flesh. Could this be the plot of some new summer blockbuster? It could be, in fact, but for now we will focus on how this depiction of events compares to David Foster Wallace’s essay, “Consider the Lobster,” which starts as a review of the Maine Lobster Festival, but soon morphs into an indictment of not only the conventions of lobster preparation, but also the entire idea of having an animal killed for one’s own consumption. Wallace shows great skill in establishing ethos. In the essay, he succeeds in snaring a receptive audience by laying out a well-baited trap for an
Overfishing is an enormous issue that needs to be corrected or there will be no more fish to catch in the future. The true definition of overfishing is as defined by the national fisheries act from 1996 overfishing is “a rate or level of fishing mortality that jeopardizes a fishery's capacity to produce maximum sustainable yield (MSY) on a continuing basis(kennedy, 2016)." Some of the facts of overfishing are so shocking they would blow you out of the water, as well as some of the effects overfishing can have on the fisheries. The solutions to overfishing are extremely simple and completely within our power to do.