Rhetorical Analysis

Reading the whole article, the biggest things that stood out to me was on page 63; “It usually takes a lobster between thirty-five and forty-five seconds to die in boiling water.” I took some time to think and at first I came up with putting a lobster into a boiling pot of water. But I couldn’t find the metaphor in that because that was the main idea I wanted people to see. So I decided to draw a healthy tree falling into a wood chipper and how when it goes through a wood chipper, the time it takes to actually shred the wood into pieces of bark has its own time process just like when putting a lobster into a boiling pot of water.
I thought this was a good metaphor because it can help people see in a different way that when taking the life
In the second half of the article, he talks about the pain and suffering of a lobster, if they even have pain, and the thoughts of kill them fresh. The article says on page 62, “the more important point her, though, is that the whole animal-cruelty-and-eating issue is not just complex, it’s also uncomfortable.”
The thing that makes my metaphor more complex and nuanced is that just because you cannot see or hear anything, does not mean it isn’t happening. With this drawing it shows that the peoples ears are covered and their eyes are looking away. But you know that they know the lobster, which is the tree, is dying and they are waiting until it’s over because they have a timer in their hand.
As chefs prepare their lobster, the article explains how “there is no honest way to kill a lobster.” (page 62) whether or not they want to admit it, there will always be that sense of knowing the lobster is suffering. “Even if you cover the kettle and turn away, you can usually hear the cover rattling and clanking as the lobster tries to push it off. Or the creature’s claws scraping the sides of the kettle as it thrashes around. The lobster, in other words, behaves very much as you or I would behave if we were plunged into boiling water.” (page