Descriptive Essay On The Giant Lobster

David Foster Wallace, author of "Consider the Lobster", asks his audience to explore their personal thoughts on the choice to cook lobsters alive and the reasoning behind it. As he explains in his passive aggressive standpoint, the biological evidence behind the level of suffering of a lobster being cooked alive, he entices the audience by planting a grain of curiosity of what really is the "right" way to cook a lobster. Wallace takes a stand against lobster abuse by manipulating the readers’ emotion behind the worth of an animal’s life and the preference of cooking a lobster. Wallace uses pathos in many ways through his essay to appeal to his audience's emotions by discussing the problem behind cooking alternatives, explaining what he knows

At the turn of the century, American readers were interested only in stories with happy endings, where goodness was praised and evil was punished. They did not particularly care if that was a false interpretation of the way life really was. When men such as Frank Norris, the author of The Octopus, wrote angrily of the injustices and poverty to be found in America, readers turned away. The Octopus made them change their minds. The course of the novel and the reality of its characters held the readers’ attention. It is so powerful a book that people had to care about the wheat growers, almost against their wishes.

David Foster Wallace’s essay, “Consider the Lobster” efficiently shows readers his personal views toward Maine Lobster Festival and lobster in general. Wallace does this by giving the readers facts and his own opinions in lengthy footnotes. Wallace points out facts about lobster that makes readers feel sentimental toward eating lobster by the end of the personal essay. Wallace defines lobster in-depth to show readers that they are living creatures and people shouldn’t eat them. The author uses a contradicting title, “Consider the Lobster” which suggest that readers should consider how the lobster feels about the process of eating them, such as cooking them alive.

Will you give birth to your child at the exact same place you were born? While the answer varies, it is a definite YES for loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). It is well known that sea turtles would swim thousands of miles in order reproduce at the same location where they began their life (Griffiths, 2015). However, the methods they use to find the precise location on sandy beach has been mystery for a long time.

In the essay “Consider the Lobster”, David Foster Wallace communicates his experience in the Main Lobster Festival as a writer for a food magazine called “Gourmet”. In this essay, he explores the impact the festival had on him as he tries to question the morals of eating lobsters. Wallace initially makes it seem as the festival is a place of fun and celebration as he describes the entertainment: concerts, carnival rides, lobster-themed food, lobster-themed clothes, and lobster-themed toys (50). In spite of that, he changes his attitude as he observes that the festival is actually promoting cruelty to animals and holds a long discussion whether or not lobsters can actually feel pain. Through the use of his language and description, Wallace convinces the audience as he claims to persuade the reader to stop eating lobsters, but he doesn’t explicitly say so at any point in the essay.

To determine the principals of osmoregulation, we sampled two lobsters from each tank and there were three different tanks which the water ranged in salinity. The experiment is to determine whether the six lobsters tested are osmoregulators or osmoconformers, this is done by obtaining a sample of hemolymph. The first step of the lab is to prepare the needle and syringe that will be taking the hemolymph. The syringe size was 1 ml, and the intention is to collect between 0.5 and 1.0 ml of hemolymph. The needle size was 20 gauge, because anything smaller would destroy the hemolymph cells. Then the lobster was picked up with a firm grim around the dorsal celphao-thorax region and flipped over to expose the ventral side. The

You scratch Giant Crab 1 in the left first leg from behind, fracturing the chitin and bruising the fat!

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

Strategy is not easily defined and furthermore the term is not exclusively related to just the business world. We can confidently say strategy is key to survival, not only in business but also in the animal kingdom. All animals under go a process of constant change in their physical appearance and in their behaviour. These changes take place over millions of years and the species that survive, do so because throughout their evolution they have perfected certain strategies that have enabled them to develop more successfully in the environment they inhabit. One such case of this successful development is the great hammerhead shark.

In “Consider the Lobster,” by Davide Foster Wallace, Wallace argues that preference is defined as something personal that relates to suffering. He presents the idea that preferences are not enough to make moral decisions. The author begins this essay by describing the Maine Lobster Festival and all its festivities, followed by what a lobster is and its anatomy, and concludes with whether or not they feel pain through their suffering. Wallace does this to convey the message that lobsters are living creatures who do in fact have a preference. If something feels pain, it has a preference, and this something that lobsters have. Preference varies between every living creature, and no single creature could feel the pain or know preference another feels or has. An example provided in the text is when a worm is cut in two, after they are sliced, their haves carry on; we see no sign of pain but have no idea as to whether the worm would have preferred to remain in tact, rather than in two. When it comes to lobsters however, we do study signs of preference, for example they hook their claws to the rims of a

In Maine, people are wondering why there are so many lobster appearances when fishing. The reason for this is because in Vinalhaven Island, Lobster fishing trucks has been piling up relentlessly on the daily commerce roads, and new fishing boats have been occupying in the harbor. Fishing companies has been fishing for more lobsters, causing catches to rise up rather quickly. Everyone however are expecting for the new development to drop once again, before this could happen. The Maine Lobstermen are currently making new development as much as they can before the season of fishing for lobsters is over. The owner of the company, Walter Day use the form of catch and release towards different lobsters he believe that could benefit the ecosystem,

For many Americans the food we eat is just something to be consumed for our needs and pleasures, however in “Consider The Lobster” by David Foster Wallace the reader is challenged to think on what his food was before it was food. In “Consider The Lobster” Wallace explores the Maine Lobster Festival a correspondent of Gourmet Magazine, during his time at the MLF he sees a new side to lobster and learns about the lobster as a sentient creature. After his exploration he comes to a moral dilemma of cooking and eating lobster, he realizes that our society does not think of our food as anything more than something to eat. Wallace uses his knowledge, research and a large amount emotion to persuade the reader to think about the food they eat; using

Throughout the course of David Foster Wallace’s essay, Consider the Lobster, he uses many different methods to try and convince his audience in fact it is seemingly inhumane to boil lobsters. Wallace proves to the reader that the proponents of the Maine Lobster Festival, home of the World’s Largest Lobster Cooker, support their style of killing the lobster by falsely arguing that lobsters do not feel pain, when in fact they do. By examining the essay, it is apparent that Wallace is writing to more than one audience. One audience that he is writing to is the readers of Gourmet, the magazine that this essay was published in. However, it is important to note that this essay is also being written to those people who would not have read the magazine otherwise, that is the people that who are purely reading this article because it was written by Wallace. Because there is such a broad audience, it is nearly impossible for every piece of evidence given to effect each read the same way. Below I will examine a piece of evidence that appeals to only one audience, as well as evidence that does in fact appeal to both.

There are a couple of questions that I believe every single persons asks themselves at some point in their life. Questions that aren’t indicative of schooling or some sort of an educational background, but an instinctive curiosity about life. One of those question is how are we so different. How are we, as humans, so different from everything else? This question is asked in attempts to understanding the world and nature around us.

It was dark outside. Clouds loomed over the skies as I walked into the enormous colorful building. Blazing rays of LED lights shone through the entrance’s translucent windows. Brightness and gleams engulfed my vision like a wildfire. My eyes blink, trying to focus where I was walking. As I paced myself through the crowded corridors of the large hallway trying to find my group of friends, I could see murals of sea animals everywhere and signs directing where each exhibit was. Animated and overjoyed, I pranced to the first exhibit where the baby sand sharks were. They were extraordinary, swimming around their tank but sadly not able to leave their confined space. Their tank only allowed them to swim continuously in circles. Although animals in captivity tend to live longer than animals in the wild, it is depressing to mull over how they were stripped of their freedom. There was nowhere to escape when housed in such small enclosures.