Consider the Lobster.

I feel like the way genre that the article was suppose to do was a narrative style, but at parts it felt like a research paper about lobsters. However, I think that the author did a really good job incorporating the information and the research into more of telling a story.

The footnotes in this article are very detailed and add information that doesn’t necessarily need to be in the article but is good for footnotes. For example, foot note 12 talks about an example of a common experience of accidentally touching a hot stove and yanking your hand back. This example helps further amplify what the author was trying to say originally.

This article does shift talks from initially talking about a the Maine lobster festival and then shifts from talking mostly about lobster facts. I think what he means when he is saying consider the lobster is that when people talk about the Maine lobster fest they think about eating the lobster and nothing else about how it is cooked or caught. It is important to know information on the lobster to fully understand what the festival is.