The Flaws of the Creature a Critique on Walker Percy Essay

In his essay, The Loss of the Creature, Walker Percy claims that there are two types of students: privileged and unprivileged knowers. However, Percy labels his readers by what he feels is appropriate. According to David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky in the introduction to Ways of Reading, it is up to us, the readers, to determine what Percy might mean when he uses key terms and phrases in his essay. Bartholomae and Petrosky believe that The meaning is forged from reading the essay, to be sure, but it is determined by your account of what Percy might mean when he talks about ‘symbolic packages or a ‘loss of sovereignty (8). Yet Percy only believes in his ideas because of his elitist point of view and feels as though he†¦show more content†¦Isnt this the most logical answer? All humans have different points of view and ways of looking at certain things. I choose to believe what I want from Percys argument. For example, I am intrigued about his idea of privil eged and unprivileged knowers but I feel that it is neither a valid nor reasonable idea. It seems as though Percy is implying that he is an expert or privileged knower while also implying that we are the students or unprivileged knower. Supposedly, Percy is not convinced that those who might be the unprivileged knowers learn best from such experts. So is Percy saying that he himself is not in a position of to teach and share knowledge? I feel as though this is a flaw in Percys essay because it does not strengthen his argument against students having a sovereign experience. This is one of the several weak-points in his essay. Another weak-point derives from Percys idea of rating the authenticity of an experience by giving it a value P. He then states, it would be nearer the truth to say that if the place is seen by a million sightseers, a single sightseer does not receive value P but a millionth part of value P (Percy 469). This idea is another problematic point in his argume nt because Percy is unable to feel what one feels. If we were to measure the emotions felt whenShow MoreRelatedDeveloping Management Skills404131 Words   |  1617 Pages174 Generating Alternatives 176 Evaluating Alternatives 176 Implementing the Solution 177 Limitations of the Analytical Problem-Solving Model 178 Impediments to Creative Problem Solving 178 Multiple Approaches to Creativity 179 Conceptual Blocks 183 Percy Spencer’s Magnetron 185 Spence Silver’s Glue 185 The Four Types of Conceptual Blocks 185 Review of Conceptual Blocks 194 Conceptual Blockbusting 194 Stages in Creative Thought 194 Methods for Improving Problem Definition 195 Ways to Generate More Alternatives