Seeing is believing, or so the old adage would have us believe.
             While a person cannot be sure of those things which he is told, or that
             which he reads, seeing - ah, that is the proof of reality. However, this
             id not the case for Percy or Berger. These two existential leaning critics
             challenge the reader to ask the question "what is reality" and to ponder
             whether or not what a person sees is a true identification of reality.
             In Percy's "The Loss of Creature" the author devotes his effort to
             questioning whether or not seeing is really believing. Through an
             elaborate comparison of many different settings, Percy arrives at an
             elusive and unfulfilling conclusion. He starts with the example of a
             visitors' experience of the Grand Canyon. Does the modern tourist have the
             same experience as Garcia Lopez de Cardenas who discovered the majestic
             land form' Percy builds an elaborate argument that the modern tourist,
             because his perspective may have been performs by travel brochures, or post
             cards could not possibly have the same experience as the first explorer who
             stumbled upon the Grand Canyon after traveling through miles and miles of
             desert. Cardenas experience, and therefore the reality of the canyon, is
             different, says Percy. The modern explorer cannot possibly experience the
             beauty and majesty of the Canyon in the same way Cardenas did.
             According to Percy, this transformation of experience has created a
             transformation of, and the loss of the human creature. Because we live in a
             modern, digital world which brings together the unknowns into a
             homogeneous, digital experience, we have lost something of ourselves. Percy
             seems to say that only being able to experience something for the first
             time, without any preconception or bias, is a definition of continuing to
             live as a human creature. Regarding the Grand Canyon, he asks how the
             Grand Canyon can be recovered by the...