Fred Murdock, the main character in the short story “The Ethnographer”, develops a worldview centered on the idea that knowledge can only truly be obtained through first hand experience. Murdock gains this view when he returns back to University and claims that “and anyway, the secret is not as important as the paths that led me to it. Each person has to walk those paths himself." The statement implies that Murdock will not share his knowledge for two reasons: he believes that the knowledge he has gained can only be gained through experience, and the retelling of the experience will not produce any knowledge unless the people who guided him on his journey are there as well. Murdock places equal importance on the end destination of knowledge,
