Write a 2 page essay on Mall Culture by Steven L. Shepherd.
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For initiating unending desires and learning to want, the malls have become temples of the American culture where people learn to ache for things which will never be enough. Once, the writer disinclined the request of his son to go to the mall for joining a similar aged group because, according to the writer, these malls offer no use of reflection for a rich inner self but see people primarily as customers and buyers. These malls seduce people of the initiation into a life of wanting that will never be satisfied and slaving people into the process of buy and to have it. This process, the writer says, makes people unhappy and discontent. He also recollects his father’s advice to read a book, play in the yard, play with a friend, daydream or anything that is initiative from within because it would not bore or make the feelings of loneliness.
THE RESPONSE:The ideas of Steven L. Shepherd are based on his keen observations of human nature and its exploitation by the advertisers and the malls. It is a natural characteristic of human being that man is always unsatisfied and unhappy with what he possesses and wants new things which he doesn’t or can’t possess. He is always in quest of something that is beyond his reach.
