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Answer B:
I always feel endearment for the Little Prince. “The Little Prince” is a parable written by Antoine
de Saint-Exupery about a pilot who had an airplane crash over the Sahara desert. There, he
met a little boy, the Little Prince, who in turn taught him about things that can be considered
matters of great consequences. What I like about the book is that it simply tells that simple things
in life shouldn’t be taken for granted, that all we need to become satisfied is to stop dwelling on
complicated things and start reflecting on things we consider precious. The book wants us to
see things the way a child sees it: naive, innocent, simple and fun. With every tale that the Little
Prince tells the man, the man slowly opened his eyes. That matters of great consequences, most
of the time, aren’t really worth the time and effort at all. We can sometimes consider our happiest
times the ones when we didn’t have to think about at all. We should just get back to the basics:
live, learn, breathe, pray and love.

Points to emphasize in answering:
Give the title of the book.

Give a short summary of the story in the book.
[example: “The Little Prince” is a parable written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
about a pilot who had an airplane crash over the Sahara desert.]

Tell about the lessons you learned from the book.
[example: What I like about the book is that it simply tells that simple things in life
shouldn’t be taken for granted.]

Vocabulary

endearment - liking
parable - tale
consequence - cost
dwell - stay
naive - juvenile

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