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rather than a concept that is far from our understanding. To begin his inquiry of life and sovereignty, Percy argues why a person can’t see the Grand Canyon for what it is. Percy tells the story of a famous explorer, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, who was astonished by his discovery of what is now known as the Grand Canyon. Percy briefly describes The Grand Canyon, and then he asks a question that might confuse readers at first. Percy asks, “Does not one see the same sight from the Bright Angel Lodge that

that I read, he was extremely passionate about the raw beauty of the Grand Canyon. He didn’t feel like any of the tourists were looking at how amazing the view of the Grand Canyon really is. They were looking right past the “it”. It just didn’t seem possible for others to see what he sees. It was something worth looking at every second of every day.

Grand Canyon, an immense monument of pure beauty, the distinct feature of an American desert, the timeline of the Earth’s history, and the Pormosa for García López de Cárdenas. Percy spoke of a Bostonian man that travelled to the canyon, but was never truly there. He didn’t have the same experience of the Spaniard centuries ago, (Percy 462-463). The Grand Canyon may have changed in form from the erosion and corrosion, yet he didn’t take the same actions of Cárdenas. The man knew about the canyon before

Walker Percy’s “The Loss of a Creature” details his idea of what he calls the preformed complex: biases that people form as a result of experiences created by experts. Experiences such as a tour of the Grand Canyon, reading a sonnet in a college poetry class, or the dissection of a dogfish in biology class are all packaged and shaped by experts, according to Percy. Experts do this for sightseers so that they can better understand experiences the way experts want them to. In Mark Twain’s essay “A

from the Grand Canyon and a couples experience as they took a trip to Mexico. Percy relates this to a common and complex readers and the way they decided to accept the reading, and how to gain sovereignty back. Percy allows us to view a common reader as someone who reads a text and doesn’t question it, doesn’t dig deep into details, and has little to no sovereignty. Having little to no sovereignty means that you don’t have

strongly he believes that people should live in the moment, not be afraid to get off the beaten path of life, and try things they never seen themselves doing before. The author uses examples, such as, how when Garcia Cardenas discovered the Grand Canyon, it was like nothing he has ever seen before, to make his argument.

that Paulo Freire is fighting against resembles the system that Walker Percy presents and supports In “the Loss of the Creature,” Walker Percy explains his ideas of education through examples. His examples included a family’s vacation to the Grand Canyon and a biology student and English major experiencing new things within the

intention of discovering the Grand Canyon, his expectations of the sight he beheld had not yet formed. This allowed him to form his own opinions on the sight instead of being influenced by previous explorers' recountings. He uses the example of a Boston man who takes family on a vacation to the Grand Canyon. He first studies brochures and fliers. Then, satisfied with what he sees, he signs him and his family up for

From then on I identified Las Vegas as a fascinating place. The next morning, waking up from what felt like the shortest nights rest, we gradually made ourselves ready for a full day at the Grand Canyon. We took a two-hour bus ride, which consisted of me napping, to view the western side of the Grand Canyon. When we first arrived, we discovered we were definitely unprepared in the jacket department, forcing my mother to buy an overpriced jacket at the gift store. Furthermore, it came time to see what

direct fire line in the canyon during the late morning and early afternoon hours. Later in the afternoon the crew was attempting to control spot fires located east of the