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Brittney Telesnick Period 4

__The Little Prince__

“Thus you can imagine my amazement, at sunrise, when I was awakened by an odd little voice. It said: “If you please__draw me a sheep!” “What!” “Draw me a sheep!” The little prince was an odd creature, even from his first 4 words, “draw me a sheep!” not only were the words he spoke odd but the imagination he had was even stranger. A simple picture that he would draw that to every other adult looked like a hat, to him would be a snake swallowing an elephant, and for me that was a little bit peculiar. Not only was he an odd character in the book, but he meet a few odd life forms as well. From the snake to the fox, to the king to the tippler, the little prince had some exciting encounters with people. Although the little prince met a lot of exciting characters throughout the novel, there were two to me that stood out among the rest.

The little prince’s visit with the conceited man was one of my favorite visits of all, but the little prince would argue differently. In this chapter of the book, a particularly short chapter the little prince meets someone whom calls himself the conceited man, which he lives up to his name. During this visit the conceited man made the little prince play many games with him, all involving some sort of praise towards himself, for instance saluting to him or clapping for him, just to name a few. Other then games all the conceited man cared about was himself and what the prince thought about him and the materials on his back. Which pretty much is a lesson in its self. One thing I think the little prince learned from this strange creature was that you can’t always care about yourself and have the whole world revolve around you because soon enough just like the conceited man; your going to end up alone. Above all, I feel that in real life society the conceited man resembles a materialistic person. Someone who only cares about the type of items he/she owns and showing them off to people.

The most confusing visit to follow for the little prince I believe was meeting the tippler. When the little prince arrived at this asteroid he was very confused. He saw empty and full bottles piled up like stacking cups one by one lying on the table in front of the tippler. The little prince asks him very baffled “what are you doing there?” the tippler answers with “drinking.” Why the little prince asks, “to forget that I am ashamed,” the tippler answers. “Ashamed of what!” the little prince asks in response. “Ashamed that I am drinking! He responds. But the little prince was still puzzled. Why not just stop drinking and not be ashamed of anything he wonders, but instead of asking anymore questions with the possible risk of being even more confused then he already was; he just ends his journey on that asteroid and leaves. Little prince’s confusion was simply. He had not been introduced into the world of addictions yet and did not understand that drinking along with drugs is an addictive thing that is very hard to stop completely. But he was right about one thing. Drinking is a problem, and is especially for the tippler as well, but this type of drinking has a name in real life. It is called an alcoholic.

In conclusion the little prince experiences many new adventures along his thrilling journey and many new types of people. The types of people he meets along the way is what makes the journey such an exciting one, and one that could be written about in this book. Although the little prince does not live to tell his own story, we know of all the lessons that he has learned from each and every character in the novel and can still read about it today.

Brittney--You chose two good characters to use for examples. In the introduction, I believe you confused the Little Prince and the pilot (the narrator) ...the Little Prince is the one who asked for the sheep to be drawn, but it is the pilot who had drawn the snake eating the elephant when he was a child. His drawings were not understood by adults. You have a few sentences that are awkward in their wording--read aloud and you catch much of this while proofreading. Also, don't use "you" in writing about a piece of literature. I feel you missed the point a bit with the conceited man--he is simply vain--only cares for his own attention--not necessarily materialistic --he is not the one who wants to keep adding possessions. You need to more fully explain how these two types of people are in our world today. Be more specific with what the prince learned.