Do you ever feel like you are not getting the "full" experience in life that you should be? Have you tried eating adventurous foods or going to exotic places in an attempt to live your life to the "best it can be"? This summer I went to the Caribbean, and when I arrived, I was expecting to see pristine stretches of sand and cobalt blue vistas, like in postcards. Instead, however, I found grumpy, burnt sunbathers, hyper dogs, and obnoxious children blocking my view. There is a great difference between someone who is simple versus someone who is complex. Percy goes into the topic of a distorted reality by defining the term “symbolic complex” as a preformed idea of what the sightseer is looking at. He talks about the loss of sovereignty we all
