The Little Prince Having read the article The Gift Of Imagination this one quote best describes imagination in us. "Almost all children have vivid imaginations. A few retain them. But somewhere in the process of growing up, most people reject it or learn to conceal it or deny that they have it, even though they use it every day." Silver Donald Cameron. As we grow up we loose our imagination and form ourselves to the "norm" of society. In the novel The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery imagination is evident throughout the entire novel with the "grown up" and "child". The building blocks in the novel are: imagination, life of Antoine, novel, movie comparison, childlike and grownup characteristics, heady stuff and the secret found on page 87. Antoine de Saint Exupery is a French man born in Lyon, France in the year 1900. Being born into a poor aristocratic family, he became a pilot and worked as a mail carrier. Antoine had none to very little of a social life. He traveled to Canada and New York in 1942 with his wife Consuela. Antoine never considered himself a writer, he saw himself as a pilot. While working as a pilot Antoine crashed in the Sahara desert. Most often in coffee shops Antoine would doodle on the napkins drawing cartoons. Antoines friend would keep all of his drawings. Consuela bought him a doll along with Antoines drawings The Little Prince was written. While working for the French government in 1944, Antoines plane was shot down while flying in German territory taking pictures. The wreckage has never been found. After reading and watching the work The Little Prince, one should notice some similarities and differences between the two. The main characters remain the same personality, setting is in the Sahara desert, and the storyline and other aspects remain consistent. The general plot with the little prince moving from one country to another meeting new people is the same in both. During the Princes journey he meets the following characters in both works: the pilot, the businessman, the geographer, the snake, and the fox. Another similarity between the two is that we see pictures drawn and the same pictures are shown in the movie. The Hollywood version and the novel differ. Visually, and vocally are the two different aspects. During the time of thirst in the movie the pilot and the little prince find an oasis while there was an ordinary well in the book. The characters of the railroad switchman, the tippler and the general were not included in the film while it was in the book. The sunset is mentioned forty four times in the book while it wasnt even touched upon in the film version. Although having met the businessman in both versions, there was no mention to "matters of consequence" in the film. The Hollywood version and the novel have different content and visual effect. Throughout the novel we see many childlike characteristics with the plot and characters. There are many words to describe children: adventurous, imaginative, loving, innocent, and creative of course there are many more words than just those five. These five words are the ones best illustrate "childlike". Qualities the author tries to show are: Adventurous: "So then the seventh planet was the Earth" (Page 67) This quote is more of a general quote that shows how the Little Prince travelled from planet to planet. He wasnt afraid and liked to travel. Imaginative: " Be my friends. I am all alone," he said. "I am all alone all alone," answered the echo. "What a queer planet!" he thought. (Page76) This quote shows how the little prince thinks that someone is asking the same questions that he is, not knowing it is his echo. Children are also Loving: "If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the million and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars."(Page 29) The little prince has one flower for which he cares for and lives for. Children love and cherish objects also. Innocence can be seen throughout the novel. This is relevant to children due to their lack of knowledge, resulting in them asking many questions. "Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince. (Page 91) The little prince is curious and wants more information. As with all children, a characteristic of being young is to be Creative: "That is exactly the way I wanted it! Do you think that this sheep will have to have a great deal of grass?" "Why?" "Because where I live everything is very small . . ." (Page 10) These five words are how I feel children can be best described with examples from the novel. Throughout the novel we see many grownup characteristics with the plot and characters. There are many words to describe grownups and their actions. Five words that can describe grownups are: Responsible, Stereotypical, Logical, Boring, and Narrow-minded. There are many more words than just those five. These five words are the ones I feel that best illustrate "grownups". Those five words are illustrated in the novel; some examples are as follows: Responsible: "Good morning. Why have you just put out your lamp?" "Those are the orders," replied the lamplighter. "Good morning." "What are the orders?" "The orders are that I put out my lamp. Good evening." And he lighted his lamp again. "But why have you just lighted it again?" "Those are the orders," replied the lamplighter. (Page59) This quote occurs on one of the Princes many trips. He meets a man that lives on this planet who is responsible for turning the light on and off everyday. A day on his planet lasts one minute. There is no one there to check up on him to see if he turns the lamp on or off, yet he is responsible and feels it is his duty to do it. Next is Stereotypical: "I am drinking," replied the tippler. ... "So that I may forget," replied the tippler "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. (Page 50) The stereotype with that quote is most people drink, smoke, eat or do some other action when in times of pain. The tippler was ashamed of drinking and in return drank because of his problem. Logical: "Three and two make five. Five and seven make twelve. Twelve and three make fifteen Then that makes five hundred and one million, six hundred twenty two thousand, seven hundred thirty one." (Page 52) This shows how grownups get too involved with there work. Similarly, Boring is another word that many grownups fit the description of: "Eh? Are you still there? Five hundred and one million I cant stop I have so much to do! I am concerned with the matters of consequence." This man has no intentions of doing anything besides his work. (Page 53) Many grownups also fit the term of narrow-minded also: "I showed my masterpiece to the grownups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be afraid by a hat?" My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. (Page 4) Grownups also overlook the little details that children pay strict attention to. The drawing was of a snake digesting an elephant. A grownup knows what it should look like and there for says it looks like a hat The novel can be looked at three distinct levels, purely childish, fairy tale, and childrens book, read as a story with a message and what the author is really trying to say (parallels between novel and authors life) The novel is written in simple English, it is an easy read. Anyone can understand what is being written. You can also read the novel as a book with a beginning a middle and an end. At the end there is a distinct message that is part of the novel. The similarities between the novel and Antoine are: Both Antoine and the pilot are French nationality, both have the same interest/occupation of being a pilot, in real life and in the novel he crashes in the Sahara desert, The drawings are all from his real life drawings, the main character of the little prince is shaped from the doll Antoines wife gave him. These are different ways in looking at the novel. In addition to being a childs book, the little prince has an underlying message that applies to society. The secret in the book can be found on Pg 87, the snake is speaking to the little prince, "Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." This shows how people take many things for granted and we do not appreciate what we have. We are selfish people that always want more and more. Sometimes we dont see the world as it really is. Sometimes we need to actually experience it to see what is going on. We have to start to think about reality and all of the others out their in our world which are dieing of hunger and thirst. That is why it is only with the heart that one can see rightly. We become this way with the influence of the media. It shapes us, the way we act and think. After having read The Little Prince, The building blocks of: imagination, life of Antoine, novel, movie comparison, childlike and grownup characteristics, heady stuff and the secret found on page 87 are clearly illustrated. The role of society shapes or moulds our creativeness. The book shows us how we loose many qualities as we become more mature and realize what is true and what is not. A prime example is Santa Claus.
The Great Depression of the 1930’s caused widespread poverty, but the popular culture of the time did not reflect this. People wanted to escape from this harsh time so movies, dancing and sports became very popular. Radios broadcasted boxing matches and boxers became stars. The heavyweight champion James J. Braddock aka “Cinderella Man,” gained popularity. James Braddock gained fame by winning many fights and proving everyone wrong when they said he was too old and couldn’t win.
Firstly, the writer portrays the world of children through the first person narrative which encapsulates young Leo’s fresh, spontaneous optimism and hope towards the dawning of a new era, ‘My dreams for the twentieth century, and for myself, were coming true’(Chapter 1. p. 28). Therefore, this device allows the reader direct access to the intensity yet simplicity of a child’s point of view and enhances Leo’s personal feelings of pure elation. Furthermore, we can see that Leo possesses a innocent sense of expectation as he is conveyed as embarking upon his journey in life with the utmost confidence, ‘For the first time I felt that I was someone’ (Chapter 1. p.25). Subsequently, this creates a child-like tone of adventure as Leo is described as a somewhat inexperienced and vivacious boy. In addition, the narrator sums up his younger self in his own words: ‘resilience…resourcefulness…adaptability…instinctive sympathy with human nature…those were the qualities I possessed in 1900’ (Prologue. p. 19). Thus, adolescent Leo is open to life and all its possibilities for success. However, the reader can see that the novelist is setting the scene for Leo’s expectations to be thwarted and even the older Leo recognizes that he was soaring too high, as illustrated by the reference to the legend of Icarus, ‘You flew too near to the sun, and you were scorched’ (Chapter 1. p. 28). It can also be seen that the older Leo is prep...
One issue the documentary highlights is the abuse of animals and workers by the food companies, in order to reveal how the companies hide the dark side of the food world from the public. In several instances, we see animals being treated cruelly. The workers have little regard for the lives of the animals since they are going to die anyways. Chickens are grabbed and thrown into truck beds like objects, regulation chicken coups allow for no light the entire lives of the chickens, and cows are pushed around with fork lifts to take to slaughter. Many chickens are even bred to have such large breasts that their bones and organs cannot support their bodies. These chickens cannot walk and they even wheeze in pain for the cameras. The film is clearly using the unacceptable premise fallacy of appeal to emotion in this instance, because the viewer is meant to feel pity at the sight of the abused animals. This supports their conclusion, because many American’s imagine their food coming from a happy, country farm and would be horrified to know the truth.
Lysander displayed a passion for love by expressing his love for Hermia to Demetrius by saying “You have her father’s love, Demetrius. Let me have Hermia’s. Do you marry him.” (I.i.93+94) and he said this because Demetrius wanted Lysander to stop acting like Hermia was his. He then later on showed his passion when he fought with Egeus’s daughter. Here Egeus took ownership over his daughter and refused to give his daughter to Lysander and so he said “I am, my lord, as well derived as he, As well possess'd; my love is more than his;” (I.i.99+100) which shows him proving himself to Egeus better then Demetrius. The last instance of passion displayed by Lysander is when he was worried about Hermia fainting after wandering in the woods for a long time. Lysander decided to take a rest and so Hermia was trying to find a cushion when he said “One turf shall serve as pillow for us both. One heart, one bed, two bosoms, and one troth.” (II.ii.41+42) which shows his passion is so strong that he believes he and Hermia is one person. All these instances of passion for love are significant to the play because without it the reader would not understand the amount of emotion behind these characters such as Lysander. It also helps the reader actually absorb the emotions and become the character in the play.
In conclusion, this work has evaluated several solutions of the water shortage in China: water usage efficiency improvement, adopting the local agencies on controlling water resources and reasonable water pricing. It has been revealed that all of proposed solutions might be effective, but they should be properly applied and, probably, their combining can contribute to the combating the water scarcity in China. However, some of other solutions should have been evaluated, such as water recycling, and this work might become a base for further studies.
At the heart of Anglo-American trade lay the highly profitable commerce in cash crops, from tobacco in the Chesapeake colonies to rice and indigo in South Carolina, wheat from the middle colonies to cotton in the South; an extensive textile industry in the North, Insurance companies that insured slaves as property, to many wall street firms that got their start as middle men in the cotton trade, I think it would be logical to conclude that the foundation of American economy lay in the back breaking toil and sweat of Slave labor.
...l to read The Prince and, if they have already read it, read it again. As with all truly "Great Books," each successive reading reveals fresh new ideas and insights. The Prince, though disturbingly cold and frank at times, is no different.
The author effectively conveys this theme through the use of characterization, symbolism, and contrast. Jolley uses characterization to individualize each character in a poverty-stricken family. The son is referred to as a prince by his mother several times throughout the story, even though he is a high school dropout. “Mother always called him Prince. She worried about him all the time.
Nodelman claims that children 's literature ultimately has a larger goal than to entertain children, "children 's literature is essentially and inevitably an attempt to keep children opposite to ourselves and an attempt to make children more like us" (33). Adults fill their stories with certain morals and attitudes that are geared towards making them into what they have envisioned kids to be. Adults talk as if they remember what it was like to be a child, but Nodelman claims that this may not even be the case. Our idea of a childhood may be fabricated, "we [adults] ourselves in both our childhood and our adult lives have also read books by and had interactions with adults who worked to impose their visions of childhood upon us? Perhaps what we [adults] call 'childhood ' is always an imaginative construct of the adult mind" (33). Nodelman is saying that childhood is not as pure and innocent as any adult like to believe; adults have formed this idea of childhood being nothing but innocence. And, adults now impose this idea on children so the cycle continues, as they raise children to be a certain way that they have imagined children to
Only 120 miles divide and connect one of the largest cities in the country and a small south Texas town and the differences and similarities in the transportation, retail shopping, and educational choices in these communities. Houston Texas is the fourth largest metropolitan city in the country with a network of highways and freeways, a variety of retail areas, and several school systems within the city. Victoria Texas is not even half the size of Houston and definitely a more rural community with a slower paced traffic system, fewer retail shops, and a much smaller school system. More than miles separate these two Texas communities and what they have to offer the people that live in those communities.
This is a story for children to read, both for children in reality and adults with a mental age of children. Grown-ups don`t quite understand what children are talking and thinking about. What they care about are only some figures, from which they think they can learn everything they need. But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. There may be not very deep reflections, but it is really a moving story. We travel with the little prince, we laugh and cry with the little prince. And together with the author, we become children again, searching for o...
Nowadays, there are many people are settling in Houston, because it is not only one of the largest cities in the United States, but also it has a lot of other conveniences, and along with the continuous development of economic and social life is improved. For this reason, Houston attracts people from all over the world. Besides that, Houston still has a number of opportunities and challenges for people. There are three factors of opportunities and challenges affecting to people's lives in Houston as follows: employment, transportation, and environmental.
“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is a story both told in writing and in screen. The story and the movies are very similar in the way that they tell the story but very different in regards of how the story is given to the readers and watchers. The differences in the stories where minuet but they were still present.
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities” (Dr. Seuss Quotes 1). Theodor Geisel, much better known as “Dr. Suess” was a 20th century poet who made a magnanimous contribution to children’s literature. Because of his artistic abilities and “inner child” Geisel was able to teach children basic life lessons and skills through attention grabbing, spontaneous, and energetic characters in his stories. He made his readers laugh at the realities of life through fantasy. From his life story, his sources of inspiration, and a poetical analysis of his works one can
This book was one of my favorites to read as a child. This book is perfect for middle childhood. This book goes well with this developmental stage because it helps with the cognitive development for middle childhood aged children. This book goes along with Piaget’s third stage of Piagetian cognitive development; concrete operations. In the book, “Where The Wild Things Are”, Max, the main character gets into trouble, and is sent to his room without dinner, and while in his room he goes on an adventure where the wild things are (himself, and monsters), and at the end of the book, Max uses logic to think, either I can stay here, rule the land, and be lonely, or I can go home where people love me. This also ties into another developmental stage during this time; cause and effect. Max in the book reacts to his mom by telling her he was going to eat her, and his consequence was going to be, or when he decides to come back from where the wild things are he found dinner waiting for him. Children lean if I do this, then this will happen. This book also has language simple enough for a child to read during middle childhood and the child has the ability to use their imagination using not only the text, but the pictures in the book. In the article “Fantasy play of preschoolers and school aged children” it states that children are less likely to have imaginative play with others, the example they