Name: Angelo Walid V.

Idolor Subject: Counseling Theories and Practices

Student ID: 2017-1018806 Professor: Dr. Rodrigo Tomas

My Reflection Paper in the book “Little Prince” by Anton de Saint-Exupery:

Little prince is a wonderful novel which describes a child’s point of view. Yet,

behind its playful and colorful tone of writing, as you linger in every phrase the book,

lies a deeper perspective. In my recent observation, unlike when this was introduced

to me in high school, this literature is more than a novel. As you dig deeper in its

content, the story was also composed of various poetic elements such as allegory;

for example, the character of the snake which was described to offer the little prince

an easier way for him to leave planet earth, as the prince expressed his frustration

from the unusual experiences that he had. This makes the little prince homesick and

ended up with the snake offering him a way of “transportation”. Behind this

enigmatic riddle of the snake was an offer of death, biting the little prince with its

venom, and ending the little prince’s life; a dreadful way to leave planet earth. The

role of the snake, in my own understanding, was a negative temptation, biblically

defined as “evil”. Even though “evil” is something complicated to be defined in

psychology, it emphasizes men’s negative rationalization from the struggles that they

experience in the world. Just like how it impacted the little prince negatively, as his

innocent belief were compromised in planet earth. In application into real life

psychology; this negative state could manifest in various ways; one that could reflect

to the story and now a trend especially with adolescents, is depression. It could offer

us to take faulty escapes such as substance abuses, behavior maladjustments and

worst suicide just like what the snake was offering to the little prince.
 Aside from allegory, it also displayed concepts of Existentialism. This was

exhibited as the little prince when the little prince left his planet and been curious and

confuse at the same time as he learns more about how people in each planet lives

differently than him. It gives him question like why the man in the fifth planet does the

same routine to light a lamp and why does the businessman in the fourth planet

believes that the owns the stars. He began to question his own beliefs then. Just like

when he met a bunch of roses in one yard, he has been disappointed that by

appearance, his rose was no different at all. But he was also amazed with the new

things he had learned, one of the most influential experiences that he had is how he

tamed a fox, this gives us the metaphor; “But if you tame me, it will be as if the

sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be

different from all the others”. This phrase describes that