David Foster Wallace, award-winning novelist, Harvard University student, essayist and professor, is the author of "Consider the Lobster," an essay published in Gourmet Magazine in 2004. This essay looks at the annual Maine Lobster Festival and explains how it can and perhaps is a violation of animal rights, but more specifically, the rights of lobsters. The article has a very broad audience, which can include animal rights activists, gourmet food eaters, lobster hunters, chefs, scientists, tourists who want to know about the festival, magazine readers, and even people who eat food. This is because all these people are related by eating or cooking lobster, which is the main idea of ​​the annual festival. Class can be lower or middle class, for people who catch and cook lobster, as well as upper class for scientists and gourmets who can eat lobsters every day without knowing how they are killed. As Wallace delves into his thoughts and findings, he holds readers' attention by using mostly footnotes, pathos, and makes readers think about the questions he asks to keep them informed and thinking to help process his thoughts on the Maine lobster. festivals, lobster killing, and animal rights as a whole. On each page of the article, there are footnotes, which tell more of a story than providing definitions or clarifying things that might confuse the reader. Wallce uses this common technique in a very unique way, automatically grabbing the reader's attention simply by using more footnotes than the common author. Some of the footnotes are not just facts, but are also stories or opinions of what he wrote. An example could be: “1. There's... half the paper... science understands more, they'll start to understand what goes on behind the scenes of the lobster festival, which might make them change their minds about lobster forever and start saving the world. lobsters' lives and start saving lobsters' lives by reducing or completely stopping the amount of lobsters they can eat. Works Cited Dukes, Jesse. “Consider Lobstermen: Boom and Bust in Maine's Last Great Fishery.” Virginia Quarterly Review 87.3 (2011): 3459. MasterFILE Elite. Network. November 11, 2013.Grabowski, Jonathan H., et al. “The role of food limitation in lobster population dynamics in coastal Maine, United States and New Brunswick, Canada.” New Zealand Journal OfMarine & Freshwater Research 43.1 (2009): 185. Full text search file provided by publisher. Network. November 11, 2013. Wallace, David F. “Consider the Lobster.” Gourmet. Gourmet, August 2004. Web. 17 November. 2013.