Ashford 6: - Week 5 - Final Essay
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Consider the Lobster
James Curry
ENG 121 English Compsition I
Tara Laramore
April 26, 2015
Journal Entry: Summarizing
Purpose: Use this example student journal entry to explore important elements which make an exemplary submission. However the lobster symbol is used by the writer.
In The essay “Consider the Lobster, “the writer, David Foster Wallace, travels for the annual Lobster Festival. What begins as witty, sometimes snooty pointing and laughing serves into something more uncomfortable when Wallace poses questions” Is it right to boil a scientific creature alive just for our gustory pleasure?”
The plot in David Foster Wallace‘s essay is a little complicated. In the beginning of the essay, Wallace is telling us about the fun well marketed Maine Lobster Festival that is held every late July in the state’s mid coast region which means the Western side of Penobscot Bay, the nerve stem of Mane’s Lobster industry. He says that the midcoast runs from Owl’s Head and Thomaston in the south to Belfast in the north. In the next paragraph, Wallace says that Tourism and Lobster are the midcoast region’s two main industries which are warm-weather enterprises. He further talks about a CNN spot in June during which a senior Editor of a certain epicurean magazine that hailed the Maine Lobster Festival as one of the best-themed festivals in the world.
Wallace then describes practically the Lobster as a marine crustacean of the family Homaridae that is characterized by five pairs of jointed legs, the first pair being terminated in large pincerish claws used for subduing prey. He compares lobsters and benthic carnivores, lobsters are both hunters and scavengers. Despite the lobster being used by inmates in the early Americans, Wallace describes the lobster meat as more delicious and richer than most fish.
He says that lobsters are summer food because most people now prefer fresh lobsters and that means that the lobsters must be recently caught. He explains that lobsters tend to be hungriest and most active at summer water temperatures of 45-50 degrees. He says that in autumn, some of the Maine Lobsters migrate out into deeper water either for warmth or to avoid heavy waves that pound New England’s coast all winter.
In the end, though, and to his credit, Wallace does not demand we put faith in his facts; he does not even demand we stop eating lobsters. He asks of us something more difficult- that we think about our actions. And like the best of his essays, “Consider the Lobster” invites us to participate in a new and fascinating conversation.
REFERENCES
Wallace, D.,F, (2004). Consider the Lobster.
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