Consider the Lobster

- This article can be seen as journalistic, as he covers the Maine Lobster Festival in great depth, while switching to a much more informative approach. In these educational paragraphs, he rattles off facts, like all the types of dishes you can prepare with lobster, or even how lobster used to be considered a food for the peasants because it was so abundant. Later on, he begins defining a side of an ethical argument on whether it is or isn’t alright to boil lobsters alive.

-David uses footnotes in order to extend his paper without adding too many facts, or putting too much of his input into the paper. This helps us get a deeper understanding into what David is thinking when he says something, or allows us to see the data behind what he is saying. An example of David using footnotes is when he is talking about the brain, the spine, and pain, on page 62. He expands on his rather confusing definition by using layman’s terms to define what he is talking about, by saying that the brain is passed up altogether and all the neurological receptors are going off in the spine.

-The article shifts from being a journalistic/informative article on lobsters to being a educational paper informing us on the point of view of animal activists. The whole second half of the paper is David explaining the defense for lobsters. This makes me think that David is therefore, an animal rights activist.