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Loss Of The Creature By Walker Percy Analysis

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Within Ways of Reading, by Anthony Petrosky, there is an excerpt called the "Loss of the Creature", by Walker Percy. In Percy's excerpt, he writes about many different stories and examples that are all about different things. He talks of a man who takes a trip to France and his 'it' experience. Percy also uses many terms within his short excerpt. These terms include but do not exclude the 'Consumer' and the 'Expert and Planner'. Where expert and planner worry about the planning of the experiences and the consumer does not worry because they just experience what they experience. Walker Percy shows that even when going to the same place, each individual consumer will have a different "it" experience and take something different away. …show more content…

He does this by explaining that everyone that went to that place or on that trip will take something different away. He also explains that even if your entire trip is planned out, your 'it' experience may not be one of the things that you planned, it may just happen on accident. Each person's 'it' experience will be unique to them because everyone will have a different take away from each thing that you do. Percy explains this by saying that you cannot go looking for your 'it', your 'it' will find you. One specific example in Percy's excerpt is when he talks about a man taking a trip to France. In this example, he mentions that the man had planned out his entire trip to France but had not had his 'it' experience until the last day of his trip. Percy then states that the man had almost left France without seeing 'it'. This man's 'it' experience of this trip was seeing some French students break into a fight about a recent play. This experience is unique to this man because he or anyone going to France could not recreate that experience even if they

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