Joohee+Park+Little+Prince+Essay

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um mrs muldoon i got the authors name wrong so um sorry. and i need the time at 9:03 because that was the limit for us. Little Prince Essay __

It is thought that children and adults have different perspectives on life. This belief is clearly stated by Saint Antoine in the satire __The Little Prince__. Saint Antoine, throughout the story, gives children his preference and labels the average adult as an imaginatively bleached human being. The author seems to think that children have a more of a creative outlook on things surrounding them and that adults seem to not really notice and imagine about the things they believe are insignificant things.

For example, in __The Little Prince__ there is a drawing. Most adults would glance at it and then say it’s a hat. However children would try to make a story out of it and respond that it is a boa constrictor that is digesting an elephant. This shows that children put more imagination in their response than the adults who never thought about the picture for what it could be and only for what it seems to be realistically. I think that that is what Saint Antoine is trying to get across to the reader; that adults only think sensibly, and hardly ever “out of the box”, this probably true because adults have the disadvantage of experience. Experience of struggle and maturing seems to fade dreams and make them seem more frivolous than when you first thought them up. Adults, with that experience, get a grasp of reality. In that process ideas and wishes die out, while kids have innocence and youth that keeps those dreams wild and creative. Children seem to have no other concern and no other thing to do besides think about all these different things about the small world around them. Children were born to imagine and adults usually never follow those imaginations. Another example of adults lacking imagination in the Little Prince is when the man had to draw the little prince a sheep. The man drew a regular sheep over and over until he drew a plain box. The little prince is satisfied with this box drawing and leaves the man confused. The box in the little princes mind actually contained the sheep. This shows an out of the box approach coming from the young child and a poor usage of his imagination for the pilot.

I personally agree with the authors thoughts on the way adult's and childrens mind process. I too think that adults seem to lose their sense of fantasy and aimless thoughts at a certain point. The youth are made to be free in mind and soul. They dont have worries so they can imagine cause there isnt anyone who will have to set limits and sensibility to their ideas. While in maturing, people gain knowledge of what really happens if an entire room was made of pizza or a hot tub was filled with jello, people find that what they wonder and excite about is near impossible. I believe that the difference of imagination and lacking imagination can actually determine between a mature knowledgeable adult and a frivilous merry child. Which is why i believe young children are more creative and just more exciting than an average adult.

Joohee-- Nice job!! I like your thoughts as to why adults lose their imagination--very true! I disagree that the pilot showed no imagination with the drawing of the sheep and then the box. He was creative and showed he understood the prince by drawing the box--he knew the prince could use his imagination to create his own sheep. It took the pilot a while, but he understood and delivered what was needed. Another example from the novel would make this even stronger.