Summary Of Consider The Lobster By David Foster Wallace

In David Foster Wallace’s article “Consider the Lobster,” he describes the harsh reality of lobster eating. At the site of the World’s Largest Lobster Cooker at the Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace describes in detail the brutal treatment of lobsters in order for people to seek pleasure in their appetite. Wallace’s argument is that it is not right to “boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure” (700-701). He thoroughly describes the process in which lobsters are boiled alive in order to support his argument that because lobsters have feelings too, we should not boil sentient creatures alive for our pleasure. Wallace’s argument complicates Nijhuis’ view on nature because Nijhuis makes the point that people should essentially

An essay written by David Foster Wallace titled with” Consider the Lobster” reflects his own opinion and experience in the Maine Lobster Festival. Which tells the reader to consider the lobsters and their life with their feelings. The writer is mentioning some important points of consuming lobsters and how its related to an ethical issue, methods of cooking lobsters, low class food in 1800s, how lobsters are feeling pain, how lobsters behave, and their nervous systems. So in this essay, I will clarify the main points that Wallace mentioned in “Consider the Lobster”. First of all , Wallace talking about the festival and showing that Maine Lobster festival takes place in late July yearly on the western side of Penobscot Bay (midcoast trigon).

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“Everyone knows what a lobster is. As usual though there’s much more to know than most of us care about – it’s all a matter of what your interests are” (Wallace 460). Novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace was the Roy E. Disney Professor of Creative Writing at Pomona College until he died in 2008. Wallace is best known for writing dazzling journalistic pieces, short stories and novels. In his 2005 article “Consider the Lobster and Other Essays”, Wallace brings it to the attention of people that lobsters are the one creature that are usually cooked while still alive.

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The beginning of the essay, the tone and diction are both lighthearted and inconsequential- full of basic observations and details. As the argument progresses, the tone shifts to be much more serious, even the footnotes hold a more serious perspective and address more insightful issues. Even in the moments of sincerity, Wallace builds a place of non-threatening engagement, reassuring the audience that he is not an expert either and any decisions about the consumption of meat is an individual one. Such is evident in Footnote 14; Wallace explores the linguistic trends in naming food, then immediately identifies himself as a non-expert by restating that is is just a theory and asking about “biblio-historic reasons” that could unravel his whole

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.

The consumption of animal meat is highly accepted in today’s society, however, the methods, in which the animals are killed are sometimes questioned for their cruelty. David Wallace, in considering the Lobster, takes the readers to the Maine Lobster Festival, where the consumption of lobsters is exploited, and the festival's attendees celebrate these acts. However, the essay goes furthermore than narrating the lobster’s festival, because through sensory details, and different techniques, he makes the readers question society’s morality. By stressing the cruelty it takes boiling lobsters alive, Wallace is capable of creating a sense of awareness in society decisions that demonstrate their corrupted morality, and how it affects directly others (like lobsters)

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