Consider The Lobster Analysis

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The word “self” is defined as a person's essential being that distinguishes them from others, especially considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action. And the word “package” is defined as a collection of programs or subroutines with related functionality.
Attitudes around the world can be shaped into packages. A /person’s attitude changes depending on where they are and what they are doing. In many different scenarios, people have been the face of many; football games, job interviews, parties, libraries, AA Meetings, etc. those are many different occasions but they all differ in feelings. Football games are rowdy, job interviews are sophisticated, and funerals are sincere.
As the article “What’s in a package?” written by
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One being all for it, a celebration, families from all over the country go to Maine to enjoy lobster and have a good time at a carnival. The other trying to make a statement and go against the tradition of killing and eating lobsters. People often project what their emotion is towards the event and Wallace goes against this because he chooses to write about how even though you don’t see any harm done to a lobster, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Some people package themselves into thinking it’s OK to celebrate because they don’t seem to think and/ or care about the process that brought them their food, they just see food. But protestors see crime towards animal …show more content…
Wallace makes a very good point because he believes in looking at the entire picture rather than just what you choose to see. Another example similar to that article is with people who are for or against abortion. A pregnant woman who decides to have an abortion can be looked at two different ways. The woman would be seen as being right for not bringing a child into the world if they aren’t in a good position for it. The baby isn’t real until its past a certain amount of weeks so therefore there is no harm in abortion. Others will believe that the woman is being selfish. Activists and people who are against abortions will argue that it is murder. Many people want to foster and adopt and by killing that fetus, it wasn’t even allowed to have that opportunity. Thomas Hine’s view would come into this by even though we don’t see the abortion happening or can feel it besides the fetus, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Some people have late abortions where there is a baby that is breathing and ends up getting aborted. There are so many ways to look at this situation. Is the mother doing this out of love? Is this really the best option for herself and the baby? He basically brings up the idea that there are two ways to look at everything. Either seeing everything one sided or looking at everything from beginning to end and how it got there. People will again package

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