Analysis Of The Loss Of The Creature By Walker Percy
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The Loss of the Creature The world has infinite beauties, locations, and abnormalities far too many for an individual to travel to and experience within one lifetime. With all of the different locations, one often forgets how to enjoy the moments, or activities due to prior knowledge of the location according to Walker Percys’ story The Loss of the Creature. The explorer imagines every detail of the destination that he plans to travel to and the imagination comes from photos and opinions from others’ and their experiences of the destination. When planning to travel to a specific destination, whether it be once in a lifetime or repeatedly, an individual has a certain expectation for the events or activities that happen while on the trip.…show more content… To accomplish this, he uses the Grand Canyon’s Spanish discoverer Garcia Lopez de Cardenas’s first impression of the amazing marvel as an example. Percy also clarifies that Garcia is one of the few people who actually sees the location as a memorizing landscape because of how vast and new the area is in his eyes. This excitement when seeing the Grand Canyon can be different to the tourist visiting, because of his predetermined knowledge or symbolic complex that he has in his mind because of the advertising and publicity of the land. Percy goes on to explaining the connection a traveler can miss with the location that he is visiting when taking a photo or video of the area and a actually connection of the area with the sightseer is avoided. The misconception of the experience is due to lack of confrontation with the location. He also points out that quality time with family somewhere special away from the public eye can make a trip magical. Percy does this by using an example of an outbreak of typhus, which allowed a family to have the canyon to…show more content… This urge is in fact a need for verification, because they want others to believe that they have seen a breathtaking event that they can call their own. After indulging their friends with conversation about how amazing the natives are, they will not watch the natives upon their return, but actually watch the reactions of the people that are seeing these new events for the first time. Aside from friends the couple needs further conformation about what the actions that have been observed and seek further help for confirmation. This loss of sovereignty is apparent. This has the dual effect of bringing the same loss of exclusiveness that occurred with the Grand