In the book, The Message in The Bottle by Walker Percy explains how humans experience different scenarios in regard to how they are brought to it , he goes in depth with this in the chapter “The Loss of the Creature.” From what I understand of the chapter and agree with is that when someone goes into a certain scenario they way they are brought up to it can really affect their experience towards it. If one sees some things at first glance they can truly be amazed by the site no expectation, it is something rather fascinating. However, if they are brought up to a site with expectation about the place they can come to feel as if it was not truly what they expected. Percy in this case brings up the Grand Canyon, explaining how many can come
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In the other hand, someone who has seen the Grand Canyon from postcards, books or televisions might be see it differently, he has came to see the Grand Canyon with a different mindset. If he does not see the Grand Canyon as how he expected it he would not feel the same astonishment by the sight. The author believes that in order for the person to really grasp such a sight to the fullest they have to set themselves apart and not look at it from what others tell them. A tour guide, he believes would be an unwise choice cause you're only truly seeing things from the tourist eyes, what he is showing you and no more. Which is true, he adds on to saying if one wants a unique experience the Grand Canyon they should get off the beaten trail and look at it from their own eyes no expectations all new. However, a minor disagreement that I have with Percy is the fact that he states that in the educational package the educator has only partial blame. I think otherwise the educator will teach what he is told to teach, he is only doing his job as told, he is just stating what he thinks and I do not …show more content…
One of the many things I would like Percy to clarify is what does he mean by “dialectal movement” he bring it up on pg 48, yet after reading it over and over I do not really understand the meaning of these words. Then is the whole finding objects situation in pg 56 I am not sure if I fully understand what he means. Is Percy trying to state that we find things and do not really care for them and disregard their true value just to show it off and be named as the finder of it? When he brings up the structure of educational package is he just referring to the fact that everything is taught by a structure, but it should all be sort of conjoined to better understand. Such as biology and english, two things that we can all believe to be very different yet he believes that together they can be taught much more effectively? Then he brings up the whole idea on specimen on pg 58, a sample of something in his book the dogfish ,when he is talking about its individuality and specimen what is he trying to prove? When he states, that the human is not something we can study but struggle for, does he say this because we do not really know ourselves why would he refer to to humans as something we struggle for. Finally, the whole idea between expert and layman or planner and consumer what is his point behind them.
In the other hand, someone who has seen the Grand Canyon from postcards, books or televisions might be see it differently, he has came to see the Grand Canyon with a different mindset. If he does not see the Grand Canyon as how he expected it he would not feel the same astonishment by the sight. The author believes that in order for the person to really grasp such a sight to the fullest they have to set themselves apart and not look at it from what others tell them. A tour guide, he believes would be an unwise choice cause you're only truly seeing things from the tourist eyes, what he is showing you and no more. Which is true, he adds on to saying if one wants a unique experience the Grand Canyon they should get off the beaten trail and look at it from their own eyes no expectations all new. However, a minor disagreement that I have with Percy is the fact that he states that in the educational package the educator has only partial blame. I think otherwise the educator will teach what he is told to teach, he is only doing his job as told, he is just stating what he thinks and I do not …show more content…
One of the many things I would like Percy to clarify is what does he mean by “dialectal movement” he bring it up on pg 48, yet after reading it over and over I do not really understand the meaning of these words. Then is the whole finding objects situation in pg 56 I am not sure if I fully understand what he means. Is Percy trying to state that we find things and do not really care for them and disregard their true value just to show it off and be named as the finder of it? When he brings up the structure of educational package is he just referring to the fact that everything is taught by a structure, but it should all be sort of conjoined to better understand. Such as biology and english, two things that we can all believe to be very different yet he believes that together they can be taught much more effectively? Then he brings up the whole idea on specimen on pg 58, a sample of something in his book the dogfish ,when he is talking about its individuality and specimen what is he trying to prove? When he states, that the human is not something we can study but struggle for, does he say this because we do not really know ourselves why would he refer to to humans as something we struggle for. Finally, the whole idea between expert and layman or planner and consumer what is his point behind them.