Exercise 1 The little prince

Book: “The little prince” by Antoine de saint Exupery

1-Sentence Summary:

A little boy who left his planet to travel around universe, learning the adult’s thoughts through various extraordinary encounters.

Key Character: The Little Prince.

The little prince character Bio

The Little Prince

Has a different air around him than most people.

Secretive, mysterious

He understands things and logics that no adults understood.

Comes from a very small planet.

A child who has an extraordinary thinking.

500 Words: “The Little Prince.”

The little prince is a little boy who left his planet to go on a journey in order to cure his loneliness after being lied to by a rose that he found.

We can easily tell that the little prince is the main character because he is the one who leads us throughout his journey as he finds meanings in life as well as see the narrow mindedness of the adults that he meets. Throughout his journey, by the words that the author had used, we can feel the little prince’s feelings of frustration because he meets people whom he doesn't understand and they do not understand him too.

For example, the little prince was displeased with the sheep that the author had drawn and requested for a sheep that he wanted. To the author, the sheep looked exactly like the sheep the prince wanted but to the little prince, the sheep he wanted did not seem to make sense to the author. When the author was frustrated and finally drew a box and told the little prince that the sheep that he wanted was in there, the little prince became happy and accepted the painting which made the author very confused. This showed us that the little prince had a different point of view then ‘normal’ working adults.

Another example would be when the prince encountered the businessman who was too preoccupied with counting the stars to be bothered with the little prince. The prince could not understand the businessman when he said that what he was doing was meaningful because the prince felt that compared to the businessman who just counted stars, he took care of the planet that he lived on and that was considered meaningful to him because he took action while the businessman was just counting away.

Without the little prince to bring us through the stories, we would not have seen the narrow mindedness of the adults in the story and we would never have understood the thoughts of the little prince and would have seen it as abnormal or weird in our point of view. However, the little prince had shown us the world in the book and from his journey by showing us his thoughts. Without his thoughts, we may have thought that the behavior that he had shown is not normal to us.

The author was successful in making us think twice about the story as well as the actions and thoughts of the little prince because he wrote the extraordinary thoughts out and successfully made us understand why the little prince thought that way. The author had made us understand that people have different thoughts and it is not abnormal to think like the little prince because the little prince thoughts were very different from how we would think in this society. The author had definitely brought out a different understanding in the society through this book and through the little prince.