lobster festival in Maine for Gourmet magazine and another comments on the human tendency toward materialism, both James Twitchell and David Foster Wallace share an appreciation for the written word. Their writing styles are engaging, using colloquial and familiar language to explore meatier topics. A use of naturalistic language prevents Twitchell's "Two Cheers for Materialism" from falling into the trap of making scholarly writing inaccessible to the masses, and

In “Consider the Lobster,” Wallace achieves two goals at once. First, the author offers poignant commentary on the ethics of eating sentient beings—no matter how low on the food chain. Second, Wallace offers commentary on the ways marketers can dictate local and even global food trends. Wallace uses compelling examples and a combination of pathos, ethos, and logos to argue that boiling a lobster alive represents unethical behavior. Using logos, Wallace

Lobster In a satirical and scathing critique of the Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace draws attention to the fact that lobsters are "basically giant sea-insects," and their purpose in the ecosystem is as "garbagemen of the sea, eaters of dead stuff," (2). Lobsters were "low-class food, eaten only by the poor and institutionalized," considered "cruel and unusual" punishment food much as rats would be considered today (Wallace 3). Far from being the