Raianne+Lassandro-+Little+Prince+Essay

When you compare children to adults, there are some very obvious differences such as the way they look, speak, and think. The most major difference though, is the way they think. This idea is portrayed in the novel __The Little Prince__ by Antoine de Saint Exupery. Throughout the novel the author is constantly showing how adults ways of thinking are not nearly as creative and imaginative as children are. An example from the novel is i the beginning when the little prince draws a picture. to him, it was an elephant inside of a snake, but to any adult who he showed it to, it was a hat. "'I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. But they answered 'Frightened? Why should anyone be frightened by a hat?' My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.''' Exupery, p4. After that, the little prince makes yet another drawing. this time of the inside of the boa constrictor, showing the elephant. again he shows his drawing to the adults, but all they tell him to set aside his drawings of boa constrictors whether from the inside or the outside, and devote himself instead to geography,history,arithmetic,and grammar. The little prince was very displeased by this. At this point of the story was it very clear that children have a more vivid way of viewing things. They think outside of the box, and don't always take things so literally. Adults, on the other hand, take mostly everything in a very serious and literal manner.

Another point in this story that shows a young child's mind in comparison to an adults is when the little prince has the pilot draw him a sheep. All the little prince asks for is a drawing of a sheep, so the pilot gives him exactly that, but the little prince is not happy. Over and over again the pilot draws the sheep for the prince, and each time it is rejected. ''So then i did my drawing over again once more. But it was rejected too, just like the others.'' Exupery, p9. Clearly the pilot's drawings were not pleasing the little prince and he could not understand why. There was a new excuse every time the prince did not like the drawing, it was either too sick, or too old. It was not until the pilot got sick of drawing the sheep over and over again that he draws a box with holes in it. "'This is only a box. The sheep you asked for is inside."Exupery p10 It was at that moment that the little prince's face lit up. The pilot had finally given him what he wanted. The entire time, the little prince was trying to see if the pilot could indeed have the imagination to do as he wanted, and he showed that unlike most adults he did.

I completely agree with the authors point that children have more imagination than adults because the fact of the matter is that most adults focus on the more important things in life, and don't really concern themselves with nonsense because they don't have the time. When your a kid, you have all the time in the world for fun and games. But once you get older and gain responsibilities, you have to set all of that aside and become more serious. There is no more imaginative thoughts, or ideas, no more joking around. It's all business, I think that if adults did have more time for fun and joking around then maybe they would have funner more imaginative minds as children do. And then maybe, just maybe, they could understand us a bit more. But until then, it will be as is, that adults and children simply have differences when put in comparison towards each other such as the way they look, speak, and especially think, and their minds will never work quite the same way.

Raianne-- In the first paragraph, you have mistaken the narrator for the little prince--it is not the prince who makes the drawings of the hat and elephant--it is the narrator (the pilot). He was a child when making the drawings. The point of the pilot finally becoming more creative with the box instead of the sheep is a good one. You need other examples as well. Mention one of the other adults the prince met on the asteroids or the switchman on earth--he makes a clear point about the difference of adults and children. Your point is made, but you need stronger support.