Consider the Lobster

The genres of writing I could identify in "Consider the Lobster" is more of an informational narrative and fiction. The reason I chose these two genres was that the author talked about his point of view on why animal suffering is a huge issue. Although the author goes into depth about why he feels that way there is no solid proof to back up what he stated. It is impossible for a human to communicate with an animal. The footnotes make the readers feel the mistreatment of the animals. Wallace put certain words in red to give it more affecting. When the color is different it pops out more against the other words. Doing that, readers will pay more attention to those specific words. I do not believe that this article shift topic. I feel like the author takes a different approach to back up his reasoning. When David Foster Wallace say “Consider the Lobster” he is asking others to take animals feels into consideration. He also forces readers to think about the moral aspect of eating lobster. He wants people to think about the long-suffering lobsters have faced just so they could be consumed.