Who Is Addicted To The Mall Of America By David Guterson

Essay 1
In the essay, “Enclosed. Encyclopedia. Endured: The Mall of America”, by David Guterson, he describes about the Mall of America and how people essentially get addicted to shopping in the Mall of America. The Mall of America near Minneapolis is the largest shopping mall and family entertainment complex in the United States which attracts most of American as well as foreign tourist. The author describes that the Mall of America is compared to Mecca, heaven or a church, referred to as pilgrims. In other parts he describes that the mall is referred to as “an addiction” or a drug. In my opinion, I think that an addiction is more persuasive because many people get attracted to go to the Mall of America. Moreover, the mall has variety of fun places as well as the indoor theme park which fascinates most people towards the mall.

I believe many people adore shopping and sometimes shopping can relieve our stress. I think it is good to shop once in a while but not always, because a lot of shopping may cause financial problems which could increase our stress rather than relieve. The author interviews a woman named Laura, she said “I am constantly suffering from megamall withdrawal. I come here all the time” (Guterson 105). Then her friend Kathleen replied, “It’s a sickness. It’s like a cocaine or something: It’s a drug and I need to be here” says Kathleen. This become as a shopaholic because for mall shopaholic, shopping triggers some part of their brain and make them feel happy and excited for making purchases. We buy a lot of things which we do not need then we just waste our money. I think we need to reduce buying things which is not important for us because we worked so hard to earn money and in a minute we could waste all the money. People should have more maturity. We need to think wisely, spend less and save more money for our future