Dialectic Of Sightseeing

Walker Percy in his essay tells us that the experience of humans nowadays are very insignificant because of biased awareness. Percy thinks that humans lack the true experience while doing or going somewhere just because of the “beaten track”. A person can truly experience wonderful things just if they get off the beaten track. Percy writes, “It may be recovered by leaving the beaten track.” (Percy 299) Every time Percy is trying to tell this he proves it by giving various examples. His one example was how a tourist goes to see the Grand Canyon and has already a lot of preconceived expectations to that place. But when he reaches there he feels let down because all he assumed was wrong and just a fantasy. (298) Percy writes, “This dialectic of sightseeing cannot be taken into account by planners, for the object of the dialectic is nothing other than the subversion of the effort of the planners.” (Percy 300) the sightseer can only recover from all this by leaving the beaten track. (299)

Similar to Percy examples, I have a story to when I expected a thing to be very sovereign and divine but it turned out to be one of my worst films I ever saw. John Green, an American author for young adult fiction who is a big name

I went to watch The Fault in our Stars and returned back with a big disappointment. Thinking all night what went wrong. The movie was nice, the characters, the story, then why didn’t I liked it? Definitely not to blame the people who made it. To blame the people who brought hallucinating thoughts and eventually made me believe all of it. Just like Percy’s essay I also couldn’t find the dogfish in the Shakespeare sonnet. I wanted to watch the movie with a curiosity. As people told me how emotional and perfection the movie was. How two people suffering with cancer fell in love and died at the end. One of the reasons are predictable. They already told me what was in the movie that kind of killed the part of enjoying