Elda Perez
Lawrence Owens Angie Esparza The Little Prince A pilot lived his life in isolation, with no one to converse with. This was a result of a plane crash that landed him into the Sahara Desert, a thousand miles away from any land inhabited by humans. As said by him “I was more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean.” Thus you can imagine how surprised he was at sunrise, where the pilot was awakened by a peculiar odd little voice. It said: "If you please--draw me a sheep!" In the novel, The Little Prince or Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the universal theme that adaptations occur overtime is explored in chapter two through the adaptation of the pilot’s creativity, and the influence of authority on children. To start off, The little prince asking the pilot for the odd favor of a drawing of a sheep shows how the pilot does not draw it like he once would as a child. The pilot adapts to this adult like mindset as he got older, this is shown by his typical illustration of what a grown up would see as a sheep. Unlike the drawing of a boa constrictor he made as a child. The pilot states in chapter 1, “I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. But they answered: "Frighten? 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.” This quote shows that The grownups have lost their imagination and ability to see the drawing for what it truly is it and that they can only see the obvious depiction of a hat. After the pilot making a more clear drawing of the boa constrictor, he states, “The grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter... Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” This quote explains how the pilots broad imagination as a child completely contrasts the adult way of thinking hence their response to the drawing and insisting that he should devote himself to “smarter” subjects which lead him to give up on his painting dreams. The pilot dismisses their ability to see and appreciate the important things in life but grownups are more interested into practical and superficial things in life. But now as he got older, he soon picked up on this adult way of thinking. “I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. But they answered: "Frighten? 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.” The Influence of Authority and tradition has somehow managed to manipulate the way things are supposed to be. When the pilot was six years old his drawings were unique but authority (grown ups) does not accept that. They have created a specific mindset which makes everyone else see his drawing as a hat. What the pilot would see was a elephant inside a boa constructor but when the grown ups put him down he slowly started to adapt to the tradition of things. That is why when he showed the little prince his drawing of it and he actually saw the elephant inside the boa constrictor he was shocked. To conclude, in chapter 2 of The Little Prince, adaptations occur overtime is explored in many ways. When the pilot meets the prince when stranded in the desert, it is displayed how the pilot and his child-like mindset has adapted. For example, when the little prince asks for a drawing of a sheep, he draws a typical depiction of what maybe an adult would see as a sheep. Unlike the drawing of the boa constrictor he made as a child. It is explored in chapter two through the adaptation of the pilot’s creativity, and the influence of authority on children.
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