...Consider the Lobster,” is an article about the mortality of consuming lobsters or any animal for that part. The writer first captures your attention with a well-known festival, Maine Lobster Festival, were over 25,000 pounds of lobster is caught and consumed. Consumer then goes into detail about the history of lobsters and how they were consumed. The author expressed that the lobster was once food that was only eaten by the lower classes, and now it is seen as a delicacy. The article takes a turn short after and goes into great detail of the ethical background of boiling lobster. The author explains how people feel its okay to cook lobster because they do not feel pain. In all reality, the lobster does feel pain as to why they...
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...In David Foster Wallace’s article, “Consider the Lobster”, he takes into account and sheds light on various topics that often lay hidden away from the surface. Wallace at first begins to talk about the Maine Lobster Festival where eating lobster is seen as a festivity and a means for celebration. At first the article seems boring and rather dry, but surprisingly Wallace actually sheds some light on a few notions concerning the lobsters further on in his article. The first unanticipated turn that Wallace makes is when he discusses what exactly the lobster is. He further discusses the habitat and natural manners of the lobsters, even comparing them to garbage men because of their diet. Although the topic leans further to the mundane side of the spectrum, Wallace is able to make the discussion interesting by providing titillating facts while also using a strong voice throughout. With a smooth transition, he was able to progress to his next provocative analysis. Wallace’s next factoid dealt with the symbolism and assumptions surrounding the idea of lobster. He further discusses how lobster is often viewed as a delicacy, but what made this topic specifically interesting was when he stated that lobster used to be viewed as peasant food....
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...“Consider the Lobster”, by David Foster Wallace, is an informative review for Gourmet Magazine. The article is focused on the Maine Lobster Festival, where people from all over the country come to enjoy this fun-filled festival with thousands of pounds of lobster. However, Wallace describes the reality of this festival: long lines, noisy families, and foul smells. He also goes into immense detail about the preparation, taste, and anatomy of lobsters. As a well-known writer, Wallace tries to encourage people to think outside of their default setting and realize that not everything is about them, as shown in “Consider the Lobster”. Wallace brings to light the morality of boiling the lobsters alive and whether our treatment of any animal is justified by our cravings for the most delicious dish. In the final paragraphs of the article, he uses strong diction, strategic questions, and critical tone to encourage readers to take a moment and think about their morals. Wallace uses strategic diction, using words such as “curious” and “confused” as to why people are so ignorant and selfish because they “like to eat certain...
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...The article” Consider the Lobster”, written by David Foster Wallace, describes the sensation associated with the inhumane consumption of lobster during the infamous and well known MLF, held yearly in Maine. Wallace, the journalist for the 56th Annual Main Lobster Festival, chronicles the Tourism and Lobster based festival with the excitement of concerts, pageants, parades, crate races, carnival rides and food competitions, which he believes mask the massacre. Wallace’s purpose is to intentionally stimulate readers to envision the unintentional abuse of animals. He begins by describing the festival with all its marvel and extravaganza with its tradition, communities and vastness. He brags of the festivities, including its many visitors and...
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...“Consider the Lobster” Summary 08/26/2013 David Foster Wallace’s essay “Consider the Lobster” examines the pain that Lobsters feel when they are being boiled alive to be consumed by Humans. He uses the lobster as an example to expand his examination, bringing out the relationship between humans and the animals that we consume. Wallace starts of his essay by mentioning the Maine Lobster Festival and its huge crowd of over 80,000 people that consume over 25,000 pounds of lobster during the 5 days that the festival lasts. He starts off the essay with admiration in his tone as he describes the Maine Lobster Festival to his readers. After he’s done praising the festival, Wallace reveals that his main intention of writing the essay was to question if killing animals is morally acceptable. He explains that Lobsters have nociceptors, invertebrate versions of the prostaglandins and major neurotransmitters that enable human beings to record pain. Lobsters, however, do not appear to be able to absorb natural opioids like endorphins and enkephalins which are what advanced nervous systems use to deal with pain. Wallace examines this information about lobsters and recognizes that lobster either suffer more than a human would because they can’t control pain as well as humans can or they simply can’t comprehend the idea of pain. Wallace sympathizes that if lobsters can’t control their pain, then humans are unnecessarily boiling and eating them, as a result, putting them through immense...
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...“Consider The Lobster” is a short story written by David Foster Wallace that explores the act of murdering lobsters in both restaurants and at home. Wallace believes that humans should question what they are doing before they partake in an action because the way that lobsters are killed is quite cruel. To catch the attention of his readers, Wallace uses vivid imagery when describing how some choose to kill their lobsters. Aside from the typical “plunge” (6) into boiling water, he states that some cooks like to “drive a sharp heavy knife point-first into a spot just above the midpoint between the lobster’s eyestalks” (6). Although it is a gruesome statement, it is clearly seen by anyone who is reading and it is easy to imagine how awful that would feel. Wallace also uses strong imagery when he talks about the lobsters at the Festival. In order to express how miserable the lobsters are, he says that they “pile over one another, wave their hobbled claws impotently, huddle in the rear corners, or scrabble frantically back from the glass as you approach” (7). Just...
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...Whiting Writer’s Award and Lannan Literacy Award winner, David Foster Wallace, in his commence speech, “Consider the Lobster”, discusses about the inhumanity involved in eating a delicious and butter soaked piece of lobster that people consider a luxury. Wallace’s purpose is to inform the readers about the Maine Lobster Festival and question humanity. The author adopts an aggressive tone in order to show how he is bothered by how the lobster are treated and cooked. He shows the readers both sides of the controversy between animal rights activists and gourmet food lovers. He wants his readers to have an open minded flow to the ideas that he presents in his essay. Wallace uses multitude of rhetorical strategies to get his point across, including...
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...be Wrong, but Consider the Lobster David Foster Wallace's essay about the morality of boiling live lobsters turns up the heat on its unsuspecting readers. His essay, "Consider the lobster" is Wallace's account of attending the Maine lobster festival that takes place every July in the states mid coast region. What starts out innocently as a quaint gastronomic field trip with his parents and girlfriend, quickly turns into a moral predicament for the readers of Gourmet Magazine and lobster lovers everywhere. While the implications of the essay are surely thought provoking, it's Wallace's "aw-shucks, I-could-be-wrong-here” (Gauld, NY Times) style that deserves the consideration. In Consider the Lobster Wallace takes an indirect approach in his writing, which proves very effective. Brendan Wolf of SFGate summarizes Wallace's style with: "The catch is that the deal he's closing has nothing to do with any forthcoming intellectual insight. In this respect, the reader is the bull and Wallace the guy with the red cape. Rather, the deal is simply for the reader to keep reading. The payoff, in other words, is the performance" And...
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...The short story that I had the pleasure of reading was called “Consider the Lobster,” by the late David Foster Wallace. Wallace wrote this article in 2004 after attending the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival at the end of summer 2003. He initially began the story by writing of the pageantry and history of the lobster as it related to the culture of Maine. He discussed the local’s nickname for the lobster which is bug. This, the author went on to say is not far from the truth as lobsters are arthropods and have many anatomical similarities with grasshoppers. At this point the story becomes tragic – for the lobster anyway. Wallace explains the fact that lobsters that are prepared correctly must be cooked while they are still alive. This wouldn’t...
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...not know this, but Maine's central trade is not lobsters, for that precise reason, Maine is known as "vacationland" and lobsters accumulate travelers. So in the late spring of 2003, Gourmet Magazine sent the essayist David Foster Wallace to examine the ground zero of lobsters, the Maine Lobster Festival, MLF, in the heart of the mid coast area (wallace). One would envision the article would be a paean to lobsters and the exquisiteness of the Maine coast. Truth be told, Gourmet was a dream magazine for foodies and voyagers. However Wallace, a not so secluded critic and expert of savviness and talk, took the reader’s on an alternate adventure. One in which their taste buds needed to confront their consciousness. Wallace hopes to provoke self-analysis and examination of the readers’ own views on animal suffering. He does this by utilizing diverse Rhetorical devices to help engage the readers to influence them towards his contention. "Consider the...
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...Eng-101 Date: July 07, 2015 Summary In “Consider the Lobster” David Foster Wallace points out morality of animal abuse by animal-like humans. Wallace gives example as lobster and the Maine Lobster Festival. The Maine Lobster festival cooks about 25000 thousand pounds of fresh lobsters and it’s the world’s largest lobster cooker festival. Wallace tries to convince humans that it is not right to boil live creature for humanistic pleasure. The author also thinks it is not moral or ethical behavior to. Lobsters are cooked alive; Wallace expresses his feeling about Lobster, and the pain they go through. It shows inhumanity and torture lobsters experience. However some people believe that lobsters are not humans, so they don’t feel any guilty eating lobsters. Wallace sounds so depress and he also says, “Gourmet readers should also consider moral status and suffering that animal involved.” RESPONSES David Foster Wallace’s Essay, Consider the Lobster has raised a great point. How Humans treat animals, especially in America. I really enjoyed reading this essay. Being a vegetarian I am really impressed by the author’s writing. Wallace is not telling people to become vegetarians or vegans. Many people think lobster don’t have brain so they don’t feel pain. Wallace states that “It is difficult not to sense that they're unhappy, or frightened, even if it's some rudimentary version of these feelings,” showing his knowledge of the way lobsters react to the pot of boiling water. Also he...
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...Leanna Forkner English 111 Sep 3, 2011 Consider The Lobster For 56 years, the Maine Lobster Festival has been drawing crowds with the promise of sun, fun, and fine food. One visitor would argue that the celebration involves a whole lot more. (David Foster Wallace) The MLF is held every July in the mid-coast region of the state. D.F.W describes how tourism and lobster are that areas main industries. The lobster however is celebrated every year by the mass capture, cooking, and eating. In the article "Consider the Lobster", D.F.W describes a lobster, the many was to cook a lobster, and the cruelty that comes with it. "Taxonomically speaking, a lobster is a marine crustacean of the family Homaridae, characterized by five pairs of jointed legs, the first pair terminating in large pincerish claws used for subduing prey.Like many other species of benthic carnivore, lobsters are both hunters and scavengers. They have stalked eyes, gills on their legs, and antennae. There are dozens of different kinds worldwide, of which the relevant species here is the Maine lobster, Homarus americanus. The name “lobster” comes from the Old English loppestre, which is thought to be a corrupt form of the Latin word for locust combined with the Old English loppe, which meant spider." D.F.W "There are, of course, other fairly common ways to kill your lobster on-site and so achieve maximum freshness. Some cooks’ practice is to drive a sharp heavy knife point-first into a spot just above the midpoint...
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...Consider the Lobster in Birmingham in Jail After reading Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and David Foster Wallace's “Consider the Lobster” it became evident that the two pieces had completely different audiences. “Letter From Birmingham Jail” was written during the height of the Civil Rights Movement and directly responded to “A Call for Unity.” “Consider the Lobster” had an audience consisting of foodies. By just the audience itself for which the pieces are written, it becomes clear that the levels of importance vary. Although, the two pieces differ in importance, both Wallace and King use ethos and logos to appeal to the audience. King’s essay is historically significant in that it addresses the deprivation of human rights,...
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...LobXprt Where consider the quality Prepared For : Name Designation : Mr.Md. Shahinur Sobhan : Lecturer Department of Business Administration Name of the institute : Dhaka City College. Prepared By : Sl. No 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Name ID Ismat Jahan Senjuti Md. Asim Shadab SK. Rajibul Hasan Mahamuda Akter Asaduzzaman Md.Hasan Imam 135 165 125 149 145 159 Section: B Batch: 7th Session: 2004-2005 Group: 7 B.B.A. Dhaka City College 2|Page Letter of Transmittal August 20, 2009 Mr.Md. Shahinur Sobhan Department of Business Administration Dhaka City College Bangladesh Subject: Submission of Feasibility study of LobXprt. Dear Sir, We have the honor to state that My Project report is submitted to you for your kind supervision. Under shade of Feasibility Study we have collected data from various sources which were unknown to us in past but now we can realize the importance of a Project feasibility study and its implication in the present and future growth of one’s career. We would like to draw your attention that we are worked with our utmost sincerity to prepare this report. We, therefore, request you to kindly grant the feasibility study of “LobXprt”. Thanking you in anticipation. Sincerely yours Name Ismat Jahan Senjuti Md. Asim Shadab SK. Rajibul Hasan Mahamuda Akter Asaduzzaman Md.Hasan Imam ID 135 165 125 149 145 159 BBA, 7th Batch Section: B Dhaka City College. 3|Page Acknowledgement We are expressing gratitude to Almighty, the Merciful and the Benevolent Allah for...
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...Marin Gibson Ms. Park Senior Composition Period 2 1/16/13 The Ethos of David Foster Wallace in; “Consider the Lobster” The ethos of David Foster Wallace in the article “Consider the Lobster,” was shown through his connection of lobster’s to human’s. Instead of simply stating lobsters in fact feel pain when being boiled alive, he makes the lobster’s emotions into human ones, making the issue more relatable to readers. He shows human emotions such as stress when,” …the animals claws are pegged or banded to keep them from tearing one another up under the stress of captivity”(Wallace 4). Any and every human can relate to stressful situations and Wallace is very smart to put lobster’s stress’ of being captive into human’s emotional perspective. Instead of saying lobster’s claws are tied to keep them from harming each other, he shows that they are in fact very stressed due to being in captivity which catches the readers attention to the inhumanitites of lobster captivity, and readers can relate to this. Wallace is knowledeble for taking this approach to the reader’s emotions, and readers will believe he is knowledgeable because the lobster’s anguish is now understandable and put into perspective. Wallace however does admit that, “…pain is a totally subjective mental experience [and] we do not have direct access to anyone or anything’s pain but our own”(Wallace 6). In other words, Wallace calls for the reader to fill in how they would personally feel if they were to be in...
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