Little Prince

It was surprising to read the Little Prince for me. I first thought that this book was a kind of fairy tale about a little prince before I read it. I did not quite understand what Antoine be Saint Exupery wrote at the dedication the first time I read it. When I paid more attention to what he wrote, I felt funny. I felt interesting to see an adult, a grown-up, could write like that with the eye of children. He is a grown-up, but he is so different from other grown-ups because he does not forget the heart of children. The story of the Little Prince, therefore, is so warm and touching to my heart because it reminds of me the time when I was a little girl, and the time when every little thing around you was important. This book has many themes and teachings about life. But most importantly, the Little Prince teaches me how to find the happiness.

The Little Prince left his small planet and met some strange grown-ups; The king, the conceited man, the drunk, the businessman, the lamplighter and the geographer in their own planets. Each of these strange grown-ups has his own business and is trapped inside his own world. Each of them seems he is satisfied with that way. But to the Little Prince, any of their ways of life do not have any meaning at all. The king only knows to order his subjects. The conceited man demands to admire him. The drunk drinks in order to forget the fact that he is ashamed of drinking. The businessman thinks he owns all the stars, so he is so busy counting them. He thinks that is a serious matter. The geographer counts mountains and ocean and records them in his book, but he does not explore. All of them are trapped in their very narrow view of the world, but they cannot see it. It illustrates the adults in our real world and maybe illustrates the teenage world, too. Their important values are the status, the appearance, test results, and how other people see them. If they fail to achieve these values,