Colleen+Burke+-+little+prince+essay

__The little prince,__ this book had a lot more meaning behind it then what meats the eye. Although it is a fictional book where a 'Prince' goes around outer space exploring different asteroids and life styles. It relates to our life style more than you would think. Each character is perceived to have a meaningless routine when truthfully its the opposite. Its the smallest things they are doing which is making the biggest difference. When you think about a king you think about being rich, owning expensive material and fame. In this book king has a different meaning. He wasn't focused on fame or money, nice houses or anything like that. All he cares about it having power. He loved being in control of others. This is the way every human thinks. No one likes to have people ruling over them telling them what to do. Which is how the king relates to our society. Just having the power satisfies you. He reigns over his planet, his robe covers the whole thing, he is in control. Everybody loves this feeling as well as everybody has experienced it but is it a good thing? If everyone is in control what are we controlling? A lot of people can make the mistake that if your not the captain, the lead, the head of something you must not be as good. "You're just as good as your weakest player" Which is what i believe the little prince learned from him. Being in control can be good, but its okay to have people ruling over you too! "Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world"(**Sergey Brin)** Success is very important to some people. Being looked up to. Having a certain title. Such as a principal, doctor a dentist. In the book the little prince the prince travels to an asteroid and meets a 'geographer' the prince did not know what a geographer was, therefore he was inclined to ask. He got the reply of, "a scholar who knows the location of all the seas, rivers, towns, mountains and deserts. The little prince was fascinated by this and was intrigued about the rest of the planet so when he asked the geographer about the rivers and mountains on his asteroid the geographer simply replied, i don't know. At this point the prince was puzzled he had just told him a geographer knew everything and now was saying that he didn't know. The geographer explained it by saying i am a geographer not an explorer i have no one to explore the land therefore i do not know. To me this is doing only half of your job. Many people slack off around us whether you are at work, school or at a store another person always has to pick up the persons slack. If the geographer didn't have an explorer he should have done it himself, instead of not knowing important topics of his job. In my perspective there is only one benefit to this which is showing what not to do. We are the future generation so by showing us the negatives to only doing things halfway will prevent us from doing it half way. This is what i think the little prince walked away with too. As you can see, the characters in this book have a deep meaning, they all stand for something. Many people mistake this book for a children's book, because of the many pictures. However if this were to be a children's book it would be because of the life lessons they portray through the characters.

Colleen-- I think you have good points here, but a few of them need to be stated more clearly and need to tied to the main points of the novel. In your first paragraph, you mention the smallest things making the biggest difference, but you never explain that later. Which things do you mean? The first few lines need to be re-written; there are quite a few errors. I feel as though this essay is all over the place-- it doesn't have one major focus. Do you really feel all people want power and control? (you said "every" human wants that). Explain more of what the prince learned from the king. Explain also how the quote from Brin ties in to what you're saying--you never really show the connection--the geographer is the opposite of that, I suppose is your point. The conclusion needs to pull it all together. I'm sorry--I'm missing the main point.