One of the first pieces we read, David Foster Wallace’s essay Consider the Lobster, is about an annual state lobster festival. Although an inane subject, Wallace was able to dance around and through the topic while going on tangents that were sometimes pages long. Our first essay of the year had to follow the same style but the topics were totally up to us as long as it started out with an average, everyday occurrence. My essay, for example, started with my having to pick a fantasy Premier League team then, eventually, discussed Brexit and its implications on the international stage, both political and soccer. Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, featured in my second essay of the portfolio, takes an interesting position with the perspective of the narrator as a minor character. The idea of absurdity and apparent lies as truth plays a major part in Vonnegut’s story, which also seeps into his straightforward and jaded
One of the first pieces we read, David Foster Wallace’s essay Consider the Lobster, is about an annual state lobster festival. Although an inane subject, Wallace was able to dance around and through the topic while going on tangents that were sometimes pages long. Our first essay of the year had to follow the same style but the topics were totally up to us as long as it started out with an average, everyday occurrence. My essay, for example, started with my having to pick a fantasy Premier League team then, eventually, discussed Brexit and its implications on the international stage, both political and soccer. Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, featured in my second essay of the portfolio, takes an interesting position with the perspective of the narrator as a minor character. The idea of absurdity and apparent lies as truth plays a major part in Vonnegut’s story, which also seeps into his straightforward and jaded