Thursday, June 3, 2010

The Little Prince

A French pilot has just crashed in the Sahara desert and is stranded. With water for only a few days, will he be able to survive long enough to fix his engine or will a little stranger distract him so he dies? That little stranger is the Little Prince who could actually teach the pilot about life and how grownups think too straightforward. In this epic tale the prince recalls his amazingly awesome journey and the pilot learns some things about life that he never even thought about. Many important things in life are very hard to find.

In a picture like this most adults see a hat, but it is really a boa constrictor that swallowed an elephant. Most adults almost never see things like this picture the correct way, as read in the little prince. “Anything that is essential is invisible to the eye.” This quote is said by the fox that the Little Prince meets on earth. The Pilot drew that picture when he was three and was discouraged from drawing, and encouraged to study arithmetic and geography.

While looking at the different aspects of the pilot's life we should look at the different characters in the book. The Pilot is one of the many characters found in The Little Prince. The pilot has a very interesting personality. He does not like how grown-ups think so straightforward. The Little Prince is a little timid of grown-ups but I think after being with the pilot he learns that not all grown-ups are like that.

Friendships are very important in life. The first relationship encountered in this book is the love between the Little Prince and the Flower. The little prince encounters the flower when she first blooms. The emotional ties between the Flower and the Prince are created because of how beautiful the Flower is to the Prince and how vain she has to be. The fox in the first encounter for the Little Prince on earth. The Little Prince tamed the fox and that is the first friendship. The fox was a little closer the Prince than the prince to the fox.

Friendships are important and sometime hard to find. In order to find the perfect friend you need sometimes months of searching because true friends don’t betray you and will always stand by your side. The Little Prince meets with many different personalities. These range from grown-ups to plants. The Little Prince met the king, the vain man, the drunkard, the business man, the lamplighter, the geographer, the snake, the desert flower, the blossoming rose garden, the fox, and finally, the pilot. Out of all the grown-ups he met, the only one with a good imagination was the pilot.