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The Little Prince Analysis

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To Destroy and To Create “The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart” said Charles Bukowski. From this, it is obviously to describe that in order to create something; it must destroy it before. It cannot deny that this concept of destroy and create plays an important role throughout not only in arts but also in way of life of people. The Little Prince is one of greatest example of destroy and create. It was written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in 1943. It is a story about a little prince who travels from one planet to another. There are three main things that are destroyed in this story for creating whether it be childhood …show more content…

For instance, from the twenty-one chapter, the fox says the little prince should give his time and step out from his comfort-zone because it would be a worthy for creating an important relationship. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . ." from this, it can be implied that in order to building a relationship, it must destroy a comfort-zone. In the story, both the fox and the little prince try to step out of their comfort-zones. In conclusion, in the little prince there are three important factors that are destroyed; childhood’s fancy, characteristic and comfort-zone. All of these three factors are destroyed because of creating something such as knowledge, acceptance and relationship. However, childhood’s fancy, characteristic and comfort-zone are not totally destroyed because these three factors also remain in the deep-rooted in mind. In other word, it would say that these three things are adapted or changed. Moreover, while the world keeps spinning, there are a lot of things that are destroy because of creating something not only in the little prince story but also in arts, some concepts and etc. Nevertheless, these things are getting to be changed not totally destroyed by

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