Literary+Writing

In the //Little Prince// by Antoine de Saint-Exupery the auther tells the reader that in life, it is the journey, not the goal that matters. He shows it through out the whole book. When Little Prince meets the geographer, the geographer only cares about writing down and mapping where everything is and doesn’t go and find the things and enjoy looking for them. The journey would be looking for the planes and things and the goal is getting it on the map. Little Prince runs into a Railway switch man and he explains to Little Prince how the parents and grown ups care only about to their destination while the kids are watching everything pass by them and trying to experience everything they possibly can. The Railway switch man describes the grown ups on the train, saying “‘ They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only children are flattening their noses against the window panes.’”( Exupery 22) It shows that the kids are excited about the journey and not about the goal of reaching their destination. In reality this does happen kids pay more attention of looking out the window in a airplane and watching the clouds while grown ups watch movies or sleep to make the time go by faster to reach their goal, getting where they want to be. Those are some examples of where the author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery shows how in life, it is the journey, not the goal that matters.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de, Translated by Katherine Wood. __//The Little Prince//__ New York: Harcourt Brace Jouanovich, Ich.,T1971