Summary Of Loss Of The Creature By Walker Percy

What is the Lost Creature Walker Percy’s The Loss of the Creature helped explain the mindset of tourist and how they see things. Percy argued that a tourist does not actually looking at what they are touring but hunting for the approval of others. Walker Percy goes into a indepth purpose with his work in The Loss of the Creature; Percy explained things about tourist and the purpose and how do not look at things clearly.
Percy starts off by talking about one of the most toured places in the United States the Grand Canyon ,and how tourist do not see the same thing as Garcia Lopez de Cardenas the man who discovered the Grand Canyon. Walker goes more into how a tourist will search for approval of others in The Loss of the Creature he told this
story, “The couple decides to drive from Guanajuato to Mexico City. On the way they got lost. After hours on a rocky mountain rode, they find themselves in a tiny valley not even marked on the map. Thee the discovered and Indian village. Some sort of religious festival is going on. It is apparently a corn dance in supplication of the rain god… The need the ethnologist to certify their experience as genuine.” This point out the purpose of The Loss of the Creature