Priya+S--Little+Prince+Essay

All through the entire novel Antoine de Saint Exupery establishes a strong contrast between the manner adults and children vision humanity. Using examples and evidence the author evidently states that children and grown-ups are two different people. However, readers will frequently think about how adults were once children too. Well, there are many reasons for the big change. As the author says, “All grown-ups were once children— although few of them remember It.” maturity gets to the best of all humans. The main point the author keeps indirectly saying is that adults lack imagination. This is one of the many key points in the story. For example, the narrator creates an enormous deal when he draws an elephant inside a snake and the adults think it is a hat; until he draws another picture to explain on one know what it is. Does this demonstrate that adults have no imagination? No, it proves that adults always look at the big picture and not the small details that children pick up. It’s like looking at the person from only the outside and not the inside. Adults are less creative than children and always have a “matter of consequence.” The author also uses characters to get his point across. For example, think of the conceited man. All he adored was himself. He was too narrow-minded and will never see the beauty in life. That’s how most adults are. They never get to experience the fun life is too. Now think of the business man. All he cares about is owning things. Material things were to such importance of him. Same thing with adults. They like money and that is the only item that causes happiness. Money can’t buy happiness! Adults need to learn the important values in life other than money and material things. The author is very persuasive at convincing the readers that adults don’t have a vast of an imagination as children. Resembling other readers I agree with the author. Saint Exupery makes a good point when be says that adults have a “Matter of consequence.” Adults have things they keep upsetting about. Things such as: money, admiration, jobs, and more money. On the other hand kids are always flexible and are accepting change. Adults are prim and proper but, us kids are messy and in our own fairytales. As an example, parents are always so cross and worrying while younger siblings are all about enjoyment and adventure. Some like to say there needs competition. However that is absurd. Competition has many calamitous effects such as war, robbery, and even terrorist attacks. This adult world does not need to be in such a state. Society can exist in peaceful regions. Competition causes jealously and jealously ruins all the good qualities in a person. Adults need to learn to be carefree. That itself is a skill too. Therefore, the imagination adults have is zero compared to the creative imagination children have. Adults have a matter of consequence. Why? Well, because when a kid becomes an adult they are shot out to the real world that is full of hate and malign. In the real world everything is dreary gray, it’s a boring shade. In contrast, the “kid world” is only vibrant colors. In the dedication the author does state “All adults were once children—although few of them remember it,” and that is because, in most cases, the colors slowly die away to gray. As humans grow they do need a maturity level but not to an extent where life is all about being one step ahead of the game. This thing we call competition is ruining the world. This world is now fake; it’s full of fake things. Everyone needs to be exposed to the true and naïve world. Being naïve is better than being selfish. What is happening now is killing us. Did anyone realize that more and more terrorists are attacking? This didn’t happen 200 years ago, why, because there was not as much competition before. Being imaginative is not what will ruin things. Many say adults need the competitive skills to survive out there. Well, if everybody wasn’t tough and competitive then the real world wouldn’t be so horrifying. Going to the real wouldn’t be such a big deal if people weren’t serious. However it is, thanks to the genius who thought humans need to toughen up. People don’t need to have their heads in the clouds but they don’t have to be planted to the ground. According to Greek mythology all the evils came into the world because a girl named Pandora was curious and opened the box Zeus gave her which was full of all the evils in the world. Remember curiosity killed the cat. Well same thing happens here. Now we desperately need someone to clean up Pandora’s mess before it’s too late and let the world be happy once again.

Priya--I'm not sure what happened here--how did you begin with the lack of imagination of adults and wind up with cleaning up the mess of Pandora's box? I feel as though you went way off topic. It began when you brought in the idea of competition. Why did that come in? If you want to relate it to the adults in The Little Prince, then that's fine, but you didn't do that. It seems as though it came from nowhere and has no connection to the novel. I'm afraid you lost the focus and never came back to The Little Prince. Sorry--you need to keep the support connected to the characters and themes of The Little Prince. The idea of the vibrant colors fading to gray is very clever --just keep it focused to the characters in the novel.