Your task this week is to reconstruct a single argument from a single paragraph in this week's reading, Consider the Lobster. To do this, you should select a paragraph from the reading in which an argument is being made. Copy this paragraph into the email (make it clear that it's a quotation). Then answer these questions: (1) what is the conclusion being argued for? (2) What are the premises from which this conclusion is being drawn? (3) Are all of these premises made explicit in the paragraph, or are there some unspoken premises being taken for granted? (4) If there are unspoken premises, what are they? (5) How does the argument in this paragraph contribute to the overall argument of the essay as a whole?
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