"The lost of the creature"

          In the article "The Lost of the Creature," written by Walker Pierce, Pierce is trying to get people to stop and look at the beauty of the world for what it is. Just by looking at a scene, sush as the Grand Canyon, doesn't mean you are actually seeing what is there. But it is difficult for most to see the Grand Canyon for what it is, because other mediums such as post cards, books, and tourist folders have already formed a thought of the Grand Canyon for you to fallow. Pierce shows us that tourist already have an ideas in their head of what the Grand Canyon should look like from postcard. Pierce further explains that people compare things such as the Grand Canyon to what other medias have persuaded them to think about it. Once the tourist see's the Grand Canyon and finds out it looks exactly like the pictures they are satisfied and ready to leave. The real beauty and truth of the Grand Canyon was never discovered by the tourist because they had been blinded by a different source. Walker Pierce wants people to travel away from the paths and surrender and take in what your are seeing.

               Pierce then makes a good example of a family is lucky enough to have the entire park to themselves, they said it made the trip that much better. But how? How does having an entire park to yourself make it better? The park should be the same no matter how many people are around. Walker Pierce just wants us to breakaway from the faulty image of fun and how things should look, and start looking at the scene for what it is.

       When reading this essay it is sad to say that this is how people act. I can even recall past times in my life when I had a picture in my mind of where I was going and what it would look like. Except I didn't image what this place would look like, a book put this photograph in my mind. Once I arrive to my destination, I was disappointed in what I saw because it was different from the pictures. I admit that I was young and naive then, and I didn't take in what I was there and interpret it for what it was. It is sad to know that so many people think this way, I just sit back and wonder why people that think this way travel in the first place? If someone's only resource of their destination is a postcard, why go? Why don't they just travel by looking at pictures in a book, because to them there really is no difference.