Summary Of Loss Of The Creature By Walker Percy
The Loss of the Creature
Walker Percy expresses his perspective about the world in various ways. He connects his examples by making them one after another giving symbolic as losing and achieving your goal. Percy tells true experiences with people if they would ignore all the negativity and get rid of it all, life would be much better. On another hand, loss of sovereignty is what is explained by how people make situations gather up to the symbolic complex with their minds.
Percy starts off with the Grand Canyon and what Garcia Lopez De Cardenas who first discovered the canyon (Percy, 298) and sees it as a beautiful sight for what it really is as what the government makes it out to be just a natural park that brings in money. He argues of how the tourist wanted to go see the Grand Canyon but bias with all information and with all his expectation of the all the postcards, Geography book, and tourist folders he sees the delight of the canyon differently. Percy goes on and states that the distractions to the sightseers would …show more content…
On there way to Mexico, they end up getting lost on their way on a rocky mountain road coming to find out it was a Indian village. With observing the ritual corn dances the religious festival has going on, the couple believes that they have found "it" as it would be of their dreams but it is something pure and true and they were already living it. As Percy said "The clue to the spuriousness of their enjoyment of the village and the festival is a certain restiveness in the sightseers themselves." (Percy 302) They go on to claim to their friends that they wish they would have been there and to come back with them next time shows that the trip is authentic. They get a ethnologist to certify their experience and gain his approval. Loss of Sovereignty comes into place with the same effect of bringing the nature of the loss sovereignty that occurred with the Grand
Walker Percy expresses his perspective about the world in various ways. He connects his examples by making them one after another giving symbolic as losing and achieving your goal. Percy tells true experiences with people if they would ignore all the negativity and get rid of it all, life would be much better. On another hand, loss of sovereignty is what is explained by how people make situations gather up to the symbolic complex with their minds.
Percy starts off with the Grand Canyon and what Garcia Lopez De Cardenas who first discovered the canyon (Percy, 298) and sees it as a beautiful sight for what it really is as what the government makes it out to be just a natural park that brings in money. He argues of how the tourist wanted to go see the Grand Canyon but bias with all information and with all his expectation of the all the postcards, Geography book, and tourist folders he sees the delight of the canyon differently. Percy goes on and states that the distractions to the sightseers would …show more content…
On there way to Mexico, they end up getting lost on their way on a rocky mountain road coming to find out it was a Indian village. With observing the ritual corn dances the religious festival has going on, the couple believes that they have found "it" as it would be of their dreams but it is something pure and true and they were already living it. As Percy said "The clue to the spuriousness of their enjoyment of the village and the festival is a certain restiveness in the sightseers themselves." (Percy 302) They go on to claim to their friends that they wish they would have been there and to come back with them next time shows that the trip is authentic. They get a ethnologist to certify their experience and gain his approval. Loss of Sovereignty comes into place with the same effect of bringing the nature of the loss sovereignty that occurred with the Grand