In consider the lobster, David Foster Wallace focuses on the under lying that is felt when attending festivals such as the lobster festival in Maine. Because of this, the article in general was annoying to read, or listen to, in my case. But necessary in the sense that it forced the audience to acknowledge the truth that was always known but ignored. Wallace even goes on to even say that while this is not the type of article that was usually in the type of magazines. He goes on to address that while his prompt was to write about the experience of the festival and what it invoked, I believe he said emotion wise. Wallace then goes on to explain that he chose to write the piece this way, focusing on the fact that it is a festival about killing lobster because as he says you can’t go to one of these festivals without feeling some guilt towards the fact that these animals are all being killed in massive quantities.
This text is supposed to be used as an example for our project two. This text can be used as a good example for project two because it shows clearly how research was done. It goes on to use mild aspects of a personal narrative where personal accounts are still told but the focus is on the prompt, in this case, the festival. Using the consider the Lobster piece as an example text shows us how we should use the evidence that we collect to construct an informative paper that can be effectively used.
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