The Maine Lobster Festival

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The purpose of the essay is to give some light on the Maine Lobster Festival. Being held every year in late July, thousands of people are in attendance to the states festivities. One descriptive writing that is used in this essay is descriptive language. They focus on ideas that are coinciding with their thesis. I believe the writer uses descriptive language as he describes the story in which he is telling to his readers. In, Consider the Lobster, Wallace (2004) states,"The point is that lobsters are basically giant sea-insects.3
Like most arthropods, they date from the Jurassic period, biologically so much older than mammalia that they might as well be from another planet. And they are—particularly in their natural brown-green state, brandishing

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