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    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

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    YOU, the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor,” (Wallace pg.3). Wallace is explaining that

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    David Foster Wallace wants the reader to realize that the most important and the most obvious realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about. Seeing what’s right in front of you can be the most difficult thing because you are always looking further and not opening your eyes to see the most obvious parts of life. Wallace is additionally trying to get the reader to tap into the real meaning of life as well as trying to move people away from their “default setting”. The opening

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    young fish swimming past an older adult fish who is swimming in the opposite direction. The older fish asked them a question about the water, and yet they had no idea what water is. Wallace made an interesting point with this story by emphasizing that what is right in front of us we tend not to be conscious of it. Wallace painted a picture for the audience about two men in a bar arguing about religion. The significance to this story is that one person can interrupt the same experience or situation

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    in August of 2004, David Foster Wallace argues that torturing and killing animals for humanistic pleasure is unethical and inhumane. Throughout the essay, Wallace utilizes rhetorical devices and draws emotion from the audience to support his central claim. Wallace describes the history of lobsters, the Maine Lobster Festival, and how lobsters are cooked and killed in order to raise awareness on the inhumanity in how lobsters and animals in general are treated. Wallace effectively supports his argument

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    considerate as being thoughtful of other people but others will see it as a deeper meaning with being courteous toward all living things on Earth and their belongings. There are so many different ways to be considerate and the readings of David Foster Wallace, Jessica Mittford, and Caitlin Doughty all have underlying messages of how people need to be more aware of what they are doing. Each piece

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    David Foster Wallace, author of the essay “Authority and American Usage*,” praises and advocates for “good” writers who have a strong rhetorical ability, which he defines as “the persuasive use of language to influence the thoughts and actions of an audience” (Wallace 628). To have a strong rhetorical ability, an author needs to be aware of whom their audience is, in order to present their information in a way that will be influential on their audience. Wallace recognizes that an author who applies

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    Consider the Lobster 2 In the essay, Consider the Lobster, by David Foster Wallace, a point about morality with regards to animal abuse is brought up. Much like minorities in America, lobsters are considered to be the lowest tier of the animal society. The main point about the essay is to alert people about the issues of torturing animals just for the sake of our humanistic pleasure. What is socially acceptable as normal behavior is not always the most ethical or moral behavior. At the beginning

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    Foster Wallace’s commencement speech “This is Water”, Wallace discusses multiple aspects and instances that will come before us. To begin, Wallace’s speech elaborates to us most importantly that we are not the center of the world. For instance, Wallace states in his speech that a vast majority of the information he tends to be certain in usually results in being completely wrong. An example of this wrong highlighted in this speech is that Wallace states that everything his experience supports the belief

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    ships are advocates for stress-relieving vacations. Wallace, however, is displaying that the sun does in fact set in paradise. In his personal experience, he is mostly displeased with the cruise line and his journey. The author over-analyzes his denied requests by a man he called “Mr. Dermatitis”, the personalities of

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