Analysis Of Mike Keefe's 'The Loss Of The Creature'

Mike Keefe, an American cartoonist, created this cartoon that portrays a man being interviewed for employment. The personnel asks him if education provided him with any tools for success and he struggles to respond because of confusion over the question’s format. He is depicted with a perplexed gaze in an upright sitting position, and is grasping a pencil with a striking attachment to it. His eyes seem disconnected to the present situation as if something has gone wrong. He is struck by a question he is unaccustomed, causing a communication barrier. It is as if he is brainwashed to only function for exams and is bewildered by questions that go beyond his wiring.

The puzzled man’s response is trapped within a perfectly squared speech box, just

In his essay “The Loss of the Creature,” Percy Walker discusses the loss of creativity and how others’ experiences ruin the ability for others to properly experience that same act. His essay allows us to consider this link between restrictions and expectations and the resulting consequences. He discusses how experiencing nature is tainted by outside information provided by others. One goes into an experience with preconceived notions and cannot have “sovereignty” in encountering something from their own lens. His idea of “sovereignty” is the ability to experience something without outside expectations and opinions. In order to do this, one must have a first impression independent of previous anticipations. Percy applies this argument to education and how we should use education to formulate sovereign ideas that stimulate creativity and

When institutions limit expressions, this can complicate or change the meaning of the works people deliver. It is inevitable for humans to miscalculate or misunderstand things, and education has these miscommunications. Anastas explores the consequences of miscommunications in his article “The Foul Reign of Self-Reliance”. He reviews different meanings of Emerson’s phrase “Self- Reliance” and their flaws, as well as the reasons why readers today misinterpret information in general. Anstatas shows how people were too quick to analyze Emerson’s message and misread its true meaning possibly because of their methods in studying the work. As he explains, “Ever since, we have been misreading him, or at least misapplying him” (Anastas, 3). Meanings that are misread are then passed down and no one challenges them, causing everyone to accept the