In his essay “Consider the Lobster,” David Foster Wallace asks readers to consider that boiling lobsters alive for our own pleasure is unjust and reveals a moral contradiction in how humans treat animals. As explained by Wallace, “The lobster, in other words, behaves very much as you or I would behave if we were plunged into boiling water” (Wallace 47). By using the word “you,” Wallace directly includes the reader, making the situation more personal. Imagine, being dropped into boiling water, feeling your body burning as you suffer in pain. That’s what happens to lobsters, and Wallace wants…