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Summary Of Walker Percy'sThe Loss Of The Creature?

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In Walker Percy’s “The Loss of the Creature,” he argues that having a preconceived image of something can create a symbolic complex, a situation in which one loses the true meaning of an experience due to the images already made up in their mind. He argues that in order to rid their minds of the symbolic complex, people have to overlook the biases projected to them. Percy also describes a loss of sovereignty in the world due to people following the path of others and not letting their curiosity guide them. He believes sovereignty can only be regained by venturing from the overused path. While Percy believes that people should avoid conversation with others because dialog allows for structure and guidance, Paulo Freire in “The Banking Concept of Education” believes that conversation amongst others and proposing questions are crucial steps in the process of learning, otherwise known as problem-posing education. He argues that the banking concept is a burden to academics because it forces students to let their teachers take the reins, giving them all the power to tell them how their minds should work. Percy and Freire have different ideas regarding communication and how people should interact in society. Does communicating actually limit sovereignty instead of promoting it? The banking model completely eliminates sovereignty by taking conversation out of the picture and creating a symbolic complex of the expectations of education. The problem posing model, meant to stimulate communication, is not so innocent regarding sovereignty because it forces students to think in specific ways. However, eliminating these methods of teaching would ruin education altogether because they both rely on each other’s ways of communicating. The banking concept causes a symbolic complex which completely decimates sovereignty in terms of thoughts and communication. The symbolic complex is created by promoting a single way of thinking because educators explain a lesson without complications or allowing questions. They tell their students that this is way it is. Students follow a single-file line down the path of education, careful not to stray from the person in front of them. Freire argues that because the banking concept

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