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Analysis Of Consider The Lobster

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“Consider the Lobster: It’s Not All Festive” In the article “Consider the Lobster”, David Wallace uses rhetorical strategies such as logical and emotional appeal, to persuade his audience of cooking gurus and top-notch chefs that the act of brutally killing an animal is morally wrong. Often times these acts are looked over because of the demand for food and the social aspect that often comes along with it. Wallace forces readers to think about these acts through the article using these rhetorical strategies and small amounts of satire. The Maine Lobster Festival, is the reason for Wallace’s writing of this particular article. People are attracted to the good time, good food aspect of the festival. Wallace begins the article using logical appeal, by throwing out many statistics about the Maine Lobster Festival itself, stating the “total paid attendance was over 100,000” (Wallace 761). By using this statistic, he shows the incredibly large number of participants to such an event he describes as unpleasant and unsanitary making statements such as “in fact there’s nowhere to wash your hands before or after eating” (Wallace 764). Another logical point Wallace makes in the article to express to readers the brutality of killing an animal such as a lobster, by stating ways lobsters are cooked and killed at the same time he gets this point across. He uses facts such as, it takes “between 35 and 45 seconds” (Wallace 771) for the lobster to

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