Summary Of Loss Of The Creature By Walker Percy

Walker Percy writes The Loss of the Creature to highlight times within our lives when we felt an experience was not all “there;” that something was missing. Percy hypothesizes that this feeling could come from being in the presence of something familiar that seems to spoil an experience, or also that specific, technical terminology used to classify something could change the way think about it or them. In my life I have sought to create many new or rare experiences but something that lacks, and perhaps continues to lack, certain sovereignty in my time of living in Manhattan. It seems that since I have moved to New York, I have been striving to establish an identity in a land where you are merely labeled by race, class or location in which
My first time seeing New Yorkers come together to assist each other was directly after the Paris terrorist attacks in November 2015. A midday trip uptown on the subway turned into a moment of terror for the train car I was riding in. A man next to me was threatening to bomb Grand Central Station as we were approaching it. With a calm approach, every person on that subway car formulated a plan of action and together, was able to get the police in a matter of seconds. In this horrible situation, New Yorkers were able to be brave and smart in unity. We all felt fear for ourselves, each other, and communicated as a team. I felt prideful to be a New Yorker, but it took a turbulent experience to feel this. I experienced this sense of community a few weeks later in Midtown when a fake cab driver pepper sprayed me in hopes of taking my wallet. Shaking in pain as I escaped the car and blindly walked into a bar for help, New Yorkers rose again and ran to assist me. As three men chased the car and a group of women aided my eyes, I noticed the kind hearts of strangers once again. This however, was once again in a time of dyer