Percy's 'The Loss Of The Creature'
Akia Harris
Honors English In “The Loss of the Creature,” Percy focuses on how one perceives something before actually witnessing it based on the opinions of others. The value of the place or idea is already preconceived due to the fact that we are so caught up in time that we overlook the entire experience as a whole. Or being that we are so focused on the option on an object from someone else, we miss the whole concept or what it’s true meaning or “beauty” as Percy state’s is. We lose the ability to make our own decisions because we base them off of someone else’s viewpoints. Using an example of a movie that I experienced shows Percy’s point.
In the movie, “The boy in the stripped pajamas,” 8 year old Bruno has a great deal of loss of sovereignty. Set in the times of World War II, and the son of the commandant o a concentration camp, he knew little about what was really going on. Understanding that he was only 8 years of age, it was obvious to why his father kept such things from him. Oblivious to it all. Until one day, he and his family moved from their old home into more of a secluded area, not knowing less than a few feet away were …show more content…
In doing so, these videos distracted Bruno from the severity of the reality of the situation. Showing clips of happy people, wonderful enjoyment and it seemed as though a concentration camp was the best place on earth to be. Being impressionable from his father, he got the preconceived notion of the camp before he got the chance to witness it himself. His mind was so corrupted of the vision his father gave him that it was hard for him to grasp the concept of what the camp truly was. This relates to the story of the couple who stumbled across the Mexican village. “Although Taxco and Cuernavaca are interesting and picturesque as advertised, they fall short of “it”. (Percy 462) This is showing the preconceived notion. But when they got there, it was everything
Honors English In “The Loss of the Creature,” Percy focuses on how one perceives something before actually witnessing it based on the opinions of others. The value of the place or idea is already preconceived due to the fact that we are so caught up in time that we overlook the entire experience as a whole. Or being that we are so focused on the option on an object from someone else, we miss the whole concept or what it’s true meaning or “beauty” as Percy state’s is. We lose the ability to make our own decisions because we base them off of someone else’s viewpoints. Using an example of a movie that I experienced shows Percy’s point.
In the movie, “The boy in the stripped pajamas,” 8 year old Bruno has a great deal of loss of sovereignty. Set in the times of World War II, and the son of the commandant o a concentration camp, he knew little about what was really going on. Understanding that he was only 8 years of age, it was obvious to why his father kept such things from him. Oblivious to it all. Until one day, he and his family moved from their old home into more of a secluded area, not knowing less than a few feet away were …show more content…
In doing so, these videos distracted Bruno from the severity of the reality of the situation. Showing clips of happy people, wonderful enjoyment and it seemed as though a concentration camp was the best place on earth to be. Being impressionable from his father, he got the preconceived notion of the camp before he got the chance to witness it himself. His mind was so corrupted of the vision his father gave him that it was hard for him to grasp the concept of what the camp truly was. This relates to the story of the couple who stumbled across the Mexican village. “Although Taxco and Cuernavaca are interesting and picturesque as advertised, they fall short of “it”. (Percy 462) This is showing the preconceived notion. But when they got there, it was everything