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
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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
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