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Shail Shah-ItZ sHaIl Saturday, March 15, 2010 Period 7 In the Book, __Little Prince__, the Main character, The Little Prince, Meets people on Asteroids, on his adventure to the Earth. One of the people he meets is a King on Asteroid 325. The King claims to rule the entire universe. But really, the King has no power. He commands people to do what they already would do, like on page 42, The Little prince says in a conversation with the King “I have come on a long journey, and I have had no sleep” “Ah then” the king said. “I order you to yawn.” The Little prince would have yawned anyways, because when you’re tired, you need to indicate that therefore, you need to yawn. Also, on page 42, “That frightens me… I cannot, any more…” murmured the little prince, now completely abashed. “Hum! Hum!” replied the king. “__Then I-I order you to sometimes to yawn and sometimes to-“and on the same page, “May I sit down?” came now a timid inquiry from the little prince. “I order__ you to do so,” the king answered him. The little prince learns that the King has false leadership and that authority is given. The Little prince also learns that he has free will and has his responsibility for his own actions. The Geographer is important too. He maps places that explorers that come to his asteroid tell him about. The geographer is well-read; he refuses to travel, and learn about his own planet, saying “it’s a job for explorers”. He recommends that the little prince visits earth. “But he receives the explorers in his study. He asks them questions and he notes down what they recall of their travels” The prince learns on this Asteroid that you have to know where you are. The geographer has the means “to be a man of some genuine importance but his blind adherence to an arbitrary rule about what geographers are suppose to do”- A quote by a famous geographer, makes him as shallow as the other grownups. However, the geographer’s lesson about the rose’s brief life makes him a key character. The geographer sees the flowers short life as a sign that the rose is unimportant but for the little prince it makes the rose even more special when he realizes how much the rose needs him the little prince experiences his first moment of regret. His love for the roses goes with her dependence on him so the pressures of time and death make the prince value her more, because the rose will one day die it is even more important for the prince that he loves her while he can. Both these characters relate to someone in society today. The King is very ignorant of the world beyond his miniature planet. The King represents people in our society who think of themselves as “superior beings”. They are Opinionated disregard the consequences of their actions. In the end, all they get is disrespect instead of the respect that they believe they should have. The geographer represents the inflexibility of adults today. Adults that are focused on what they have to do other than for someone else. In the end, the King and the Geographer help the little prince learn from each character and help me figure out how they relate to society today.

Shail-- I'm sorry, but I had a hard time following this. I feel as though your thoughts are all jumbled--not one point seems to be completely made. The sentence underlined makes no sense--did you leave part of the quote out? It appears so. This is all one paragraph, which makes the format weak--you need to show breaks between ideas, yet still have them flow smoothly from one to the next. I don't see that here--it's all too disjointed. You use various quotes for the geographer, but don't really explain their relevance to your point. How does the king's character become opinionated? It doesn't seem to follow the previous points. You may have some good points, but they are lost in the confusion.

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