Part one of term paper
In the essay “ Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America” the author David Guterson describes the mall as a “…monstrous hallucination…”(211). Is the mall nothing more than an oversized shopping center, designed to look extravagant and patriotic? This “Megamall” has attracted shoppers from all over the globe, who g ...

Part two of term paper
... that the mall is nothing more than a glorified shopping center. “The outside [of the mall]…resembles…a Las Vegas Casino…impossibly large and vaguely unreal, [with its] unbroken, windowless multi-storied edifice the size of an airport terminal,” says Guterson (210). The outside was designed to attract a vast group of tourists that would flock at the chance to walk though America’s largest mall . He states, “ [The mall] had been imagined by its creators not merely as a marketplace b ...