Percy And Morris Essay

After reading Percy and Morris it is observed that the two essays have alot of similarities and a few differences. Morris specifies one main point or points. While Percy finds himself never completely clarifying his thesis. One similarity Morris and Percy shares is the lost of something important. As mentioned in the previous paragraph, Morris and Percy both has discussed the lost of something important. However, Morris discusses the lost a sense of reality while Percy discribes the lost of sovereignty. Percy discribes the lost sovereignty as when there is “an openness of the thing before one-instead of being an exercise to be learned according to an approved mode” as stated on page 308. Another example that Percy also states on page 308 is “ a sovereignty of the knower-instead of being a consumer of prepared experience”. In the first quote I believe Percy is trying to explain that in his opinion being open minded to something new or a new experience is better than having heard or to have prior knowledge or advice about something for the benefits of your personal opinion and approval rather than others approval. In the second quote, I believe Percy is tryint to explain also that in his opinion it is better for you to have the power of judgement to a new experience rather than a person who is a consumer of that experience. What Percy is overall trying to explain is that is it hard for you to enjoy something new, or form an opinion on something if you already have an idea about it based off of some ones else’s words. Or that you cannot judge something if your opinion on it is not you own and your information is based off of someones else’s prior knowledge. Another important point that Percy discusses is not seeing things for whay they are or the true beauty in them. A story in Percy’s essay describes a couple who discovers a villahe for the first time and sees the beauty in it and realizes thats what they have been waiting on. A completely new experience or scenery that no one else knows about or have discovered. Therefore, without any outside opinions or conclusions the couple can truely embrass their scenery for what it is. And see the beauty in it. Relatings to Percy’s point on seeing things for what they are and finding the beauty in it. Another story Percy discusses is about a family who goes to the Grand Canyon and as mentioned before, the family doesn’t embrass the Grand Canyon for what it is. The reason the famly doesn’t see the Grand Canyon is because tourist like the family takes pictures or photographs of the Grand Canyon, instead of just taking in whats in front of them. Also the family and tourist cannot …show more content…
As Morris states on page 93 of his essay is “But we do not form our beliefs on the basis of what we see: rather, what we see is oftern determined by our beliefs. Believing is seeing, not the other way around. To futher explain this quote, earlier in the essay a writer of an article in the New York Times believed or pursuaded readers of the article that a man by the name of Qaissi to be the hooded man. Come to find out Qaissi wasn’t the hooded man at all but believed he was, as he pursuaded others he was by stating what happened to him and others in the camp and how he remember what happened that exact night that the picture was taken. Qaissi was nicknamed the claw because of his disformed fingers that was thought to be seen in the picture of the hooded man. Also soon later found out that it was basically just a bad picture on a low quality camera and that “The Claw” and “The Hooded Man” were two different people. The writer was easily believed Qaissi’s story but unfortunly didn’t put all the clues together like why when Qaissis took a picture of himself holding a picture of himself as the hooded man, why he didn’t reveal his hand that was said to look like a claw. But then when finally seeing his hand was dissapointed. Soon Qaissi admitted he wasn’t the hooded man but that he really thought he was because he remember a picture being taken of him like the hooded mans