Desert Notes By Barry Lopez Summary

Upon reading the piece for the first time, I did not understand what was going on. After a couple of days later, I think I get it, but I kind of understood only the first half which is enough. After reading a piece from Desert Notes by Barry Lopez, the message Mr. Lopez is trying to convey is to tell the reader to not to form conceptions, beliefs or ideas of something before actually knowing about it. This nicely fits the theme of preconception. In the beginning, you have the idea of something. It could be anything. You automatically think, for example, a desert is this and that. You assumed and expected a lot of things. Then, you realized that you are wrong about what it truly is. In the end, you realized you wasted your time cowering in fear.