READ AND REFLECT: CHAPTERS 1-9
a. The pilot was very disappointed, so from there did not draw anymore. Adults should understand children. They should not discourage them. They should encourage them instead because children are easily discouraged. If children are discouraged, they might stop doing a certain thing that they like because some people criticize their work. They would choose another thing to do just to impress others even if they don’t like doing that thing. Adults should also know or understand children’s point of view.
b. By the criticism of the little prince. We all learn from our mistakes. No one learns how to get a thing right when they don’t even know if it’s right or wrong. We should also take the criticism of other people to know how to improve our work.
c. His dress was not formal. He dressed in Turkish costume, which made him seem silly to the grown-ups. Grown-ups really care about physical appearances of a person. If you do not dress formally, they might think that you are not serious and might not even understand you.
d. Adults describe a house beautiful when they find out the cost of a house. They don’t describe it in its appearance. Grown-ups don’t imagine as much as we children do. Mostly, they only care about serious things. Some even forget what’s it like to be a child again.
e. Baobabs are large trees. If you don’t solve a problem early, it will grow bigger until you can’t solve it anymore. You should solve problems while there is still time. We should do things as early as possible. We shouldn’t wait for next time before we do things.
f. He was shocked. The little prince did not understand why the pilot thinks that a certain thing is a matter of great consequence. He did not understand what is the big deal of being busy for a plane.
g. Sadness is hidden in the inside. It is mostly a secret. No one would know if a person is sad unless they show it. The land of tears is a secret place because nobody knows everything about it except for the person who owns it.
h. You should always be on the safe side in a good way. You should be cautious. In the book, it was known that one volcano is extinct. But according to the little prince, you would never whether it is really extinct. So, he still cleaned the extinct volcano. You will never know because maybe it will erupt anytime.
i. The flower that the little prince owns. It means that one must sacrifice in order to receive something good or to make someone so dear happy. You will never be a certain kind of thing when you don’t undergo in a certain part.
j. The flower coughed in order to escape from a question she cannot answer or a sentence she was not supposed to say. She made some alibis or excuses. Some people also do this to get away from something they don’t want to talk about. They do this so that the people will be concerned about them and forget whatever a person was saying or was about to say.
k. It was precious. He made sacrifices. In the book, the little prince was sad because he had to leave his flower alone on his planet. But before he went, he made sure that the flower is safe. He shielded his flower with glass so it will not be harmed. He even went back to his planet even though it meant leaving a friend, which was the pilot.