In “The Loss of the Creature” by Walker Percy attempts to portray the idea that perspective can be distorted by another's story, personal experience, and other factors that lead people to have these expectations of a view or study that detract from the experience. He demonstrates this when he mentions tourists at the Grand Canyon and the biology student being compared to the Falkland Islander. The facts he presents are true, but Percy does not go into detail about individual cases leading to a generalized essay that fails to show that each individual account is different and that not all expectations are changed from other information given to people who will contaminate the environment of learning. or experience, and for this reason the points not mentioned as well as Percy's thoughts will be explained and explored. Everyone's experience is not all the same as the Grand Canyon situation Percy mentioned. The individual must be taken into account. Like me, I have been to many tourist places, such as the Valley of the Ten Peaks, which many people talk about and which have been influenced by the media, but when I arrived I was speechless at the sight of the Peaks. This experience is a counterpoint to Percy's idea that biases about situations can distort people's perspectives. Percy states, "[a tourist] You don't see from the Bright Angel Lodge the same sight that Cardenas saw" (Percy 464). This quote explains how people can't see the true beauty of a show with these expectations blocking it from us. Most of the time my expectations of a spectacle given to me by the media or other people have diminished my life experiences. This is because how much someone is willing to let… middle of paper… a public place is committing a recreational experience by returning that sovereign feeling to a person and satisfying the recreational need to obtain this feeling (Percy 470). This person is the one who does not allow his perspective to be altered by someone else's vision. The second loss is the one you have to recover when you study and learn. Percy states that you should find glory in discovery rather than simply in a lesson (Percy 471). This is the student who takes pleasure in learning for the sake of learning. To conclude, our perspective can be changed or altered by other people's perspectives. This change in perspective can reduce the experiences people go through. People's education can also be changed by classroom limitations that change our view of a subject and cause students to relate our education to the classroom rather than to what is actually learned.