Analysis Of The Loss Of The Creature By Walter Percy

In the essay, The Loss of the Creature, written by Walter Percy, the term “creature” means “true experience.” When we go somewhere, we often do research on the place or talk with people who have gone to the place. We create a vision for what our experience should be like without even reaching our destination. We often get caught up in creating a vision for our experience that we forget to stop, look around, and enjoy the world. When we go to a place, we try to experience what we have planned instead of experience what we were meant to experience, otherwise known as our true experience. For example, Percy mentions a couple who went to Mexico. They traveled thousands of miles of miles to reach a plaza located in Guanajuato, but there were other couples there exactly like them, from the Midwest. They did not think they were going to find the “creature” until they came across a religious festival. …show more content…
The presidents, the world wars, relations between countries were subjects I wished to be more knowledgeable about in my youth. I had no expectations about learning history and I had no visions of how I wanted to learn about history because my overall goal was just to learn no matter. As I entered my first high school class on world history, I soon realized my urge to learn history would not be satisfied. My world history teacher was not concerned about teaching his students anything about world history. Most of the class periods consisted of group work he assigned from a textbook which often resulted in the entire class talking all period long. As a timid freshman, I didn’t mind these kinds of activities because I didn’t want to become too stressed or overwhelmed with my classes. However, I could never be stressed in world history if I was never learning anything. Like I said, I didn’t have any expectations or visions for how I was going to learn world history, but I was disappointed that I never