[Ex 1 Book Review] Character Study on Little Prince

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By Clear

• Disciplined - tending to baobabs
• Serious - looking through all the drawings of sheep
• Persistent - 'Never letting go of a question once he asked it'
• Polite - Apologize to the King for yawning. Polite speech. 
• Curious - reason for traveling and asking questions
• Indulgent - to the rose and narrator
• Empathetic - tamed fox; does not want narrator to see him 'die', suggested way to rest to lamplighter
• Innocent and pure - because the snake said so.

1. The Little Prince does not understand why grown ups think of only themselves;
2. why such importance is placed upon things that are not significant;
3. making simple things complicated;
4. continuing doing what they know is wrong or bad for themselves;
5. so prideful and vain
6. not treasuring what they have

To the readers, the Little Prince resembles a small boy from the way he is curious about everything that invokes his interest, his persistency in asking questions, his straight-forwardness, and how he is able to see what things really are as shown instead of being clouded by the grown-ups’ reality check.

He came across a beautiful flower that demanded his attention and care. Like a child, the novelty of taking care of a beautiful flower soon wore his patience down and he questioned himself why he was doing so much for the flower and was, yet, taken for a wild goose ride by her words. He did not understand what is the meaning of ‘Love’, and how to differentiate which was truer – actions or words.

In some ways, the Little Prince is like the inner child who resides in everyone. As we grow up and get accustomed to the adult world, his existence becomes smaller. We become less polite and more demanding, making simple things more complicated by sly words, doing things for our own benefit foremost, and neglecting to treasure what is truly important to us. We weigh how important things are to us by their value and how much they are worth to other people – we calculate that value by what is visible to the eyes and not the heart.

The Little Prince went exploring all the little asteroids where a grown up reside, each resembling our vices – such as pride, vanity, the love of power, the thirst of empty knowledge, the stubbornness to change, and how ridiculous they all seem to be in the eyes of others, especially a child as innocent and pure like the Little Prince.

On Earth, the Little Prince found out what he wanted to know in the first place. He realized that one is able to choose if he wants to have a bond with another or not, despite knowing what would happen in the end. But it is because of the good times and memories that the bond had produced, results in the sadness when they have to part, and the anticipation and hope that they will meet again when they are apart, and the happiness and relief they feel when they are together. In short, happiness taste the sweetest when one has experienced hardship before.

And what makes the other so special is because you have made the choice to have a bond. Knowing that, and realize that it is true for the other party that they too, made a choice to have a bond with you.

In this story, the Little Prince is created so it would be easy for the children to relate to him, and also for the adults to enjoy without feeling that the story is too preachy.