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Rhetorical Analysis - Consider the Lobster


He is using logos here because he is giving us biological facts about lobster. Wallace continues to use logos and tells us more about lobsters like when they are most active, where they migrate, and the different between soft and hard shell lobsters.
             Subsequently, Wallace starts to introduce the ways you can cook lobster. "Lobster can be baked, broiled, steamed, grilled, sautéed, stir-fried, or microwaved" (241). The most common way is boiling, and the lobsters are supposed to be alive when you put them in the kettle. This is where the main purpose of the article is mentioned. "Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?" (Wallace 243). He isn't so much arguing if it is morally wrong or not, he is forcing us to ask ourselves these questions. Are we hurting the lobster? Is it morally wrong to boil and eat them? Wallace is confused himself and is trying to figure out these questions. Is it just a matter of personal choice? He describes how there are activists that come to the lobster festivals to protest and advertise their opinions that boiling the lobsters for our pleasure is wrong and it hurts them. There is also people that say the opposite like Dick, who says that lobster's brain is different and doesn't have a part that allows them to feel pain, like us humans do. They supposedly do not have a cerebral cortex, but that whole argument is not clear because they don't know for sure that other parts of the brain are involved with pain. But then again, as Wallace describes, when you put the lobster in the boiling water you can tell it is suffering. "Even if you cover the kettle and turn away, you can usually hear the cover rattling and clanking as the lobster tries to push it off. Or the creature's claws scraping the sides of the kettle as it thrashes around" (Wallace 248). So, that right there is evidence that the lobster is suffering and does feel pain.


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