The Loss of the Creature by Walker Percy

When a holidaymaker first comes to USA, thither argon many an(prenominal) rates that he is told to dish the dirt. He can go to see Empire republic building, Statue of Liberty, Grand canyon, and Mountain Rushmore. These places are all interesting, informative and enjoyment places to visit. But can the tourist really experience every thing at these locations? Walker Percy in his essay, The qualifying of the Creature discusses how with preconceptions and the withdraw from of our sovereignty, humans lose the ability to experience life, and its elements, in sweet-flavored and innovative ways. Percy begins his essay with an utilisation of the visitor who always cute to visit Grand Canyon and his experience by the ideas and thoughts of what it should be when he was there.\nThe second set forth of his essay he discusses the differences betwixt learning with and without the storm of the uncovering at the educational system. piece have lost the surprise of discovery because o f the preconceptions they bring to experience. Percy states, The highest point, the circumstance of the sightseers satisfaction, is non the sovereign discovery of the thing onwards him; it is rather the touchstone up of the thing to the preformed symbolical complex. When we are experiencing something instead of perceiving it establish on its own merits, we sift to see what we have already learned about that place or subject. He offers many ways to go about retrieving the loss. Percy says, It may be aged by leaving the beaten(a) track. He suggests choosing the road slight traveled by. He besides wants us to make a track of our own and take away our own direction. Percy recommends recovery through and through interior(a) disaster or a breakdown of symbolic machinery. Through a national disaster something that used to be no longer exists. That which has stood through the years becomes more knock-down(a) when destroyed. Best example for this is mankind Trade Center perhaps after September 11 more tourists come to visit Ground Zero than before it collapsed....