Throughout the semester we were tasked to read and annotate several different essays. One I felt like I did a wonderful job with was the “Consider the Lobster” essay by David Foster Wallace. Considering we used this essay for multiple assignments I feel as if I have a good grasp of the content that was in there. This essay focused on the non ethical idea of boiling lobsters alive. The way I annotated was by trying to break every paragraph apart and interpret its meaning. I would put each paragraph into brackets and in the blank spaces on the paper write what I thought Wallace was trying to explain in that individual paragraph. I’d do this by writing the basic points of each paragraph and try to simplify it to the best of my ability. There were also some words that were above my vocabulary skill set. These words I’d underline and google on my phone to understand the meaning and better understand the passage as a whole. By highlighting the important points it made it easier for me to go back and observe what was important about the essay to begin with. When we wrote paper #2 comparing “Consider the Lobster” with other essays it was extremely easy for me to know what might be the important points to discuss. By bracketing each paragraph individually instead of having to reread the entire essay I could look at the main points of it and move on. I felt like in this reading I showed that I can correctly annotate an essay.

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