Speaking Test

(10-11-23)
About your favourite book
Type of book: Literatura Infantil
Tite: El Principito
Writer: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
When: The book tells us about a little boy who does not know beyond his own planet with
some giant trees and a flower that he raised himself. It teaches us that there are times when
older people do not have that touch or imagination of small children, so a few simple words
that are a little harsh for them make them change their minds about several things. This book
is the first time I read it and it fascinated me because it taught me that the most beautiful
things cannot be seen through the eyes of people and that learning to "tame" people, things,
and animals often brings us trouble. some tears too. I think it is a story with very beautiful
sections that give guides in life, like when it says: great people always need explanations,
because I understand that they allow themselves to be guided more by reason than by the
heart, there in the feel there are not so many questions, and as he says sometimes you live
alone with no one to really talk to, it's blah blah blah empty. Phrases like “I didn't know how to
get to it, where to find it, the land of tears is so mysterious” I loved it. Well, there are many
phrases that I really liked, but my goal in giving my opinion here is not to add to the many
beautiful comments, but to take another look and share it to see what you think. Some
sections seemed really FACHOS to me, all those that are in relation to the Boabas. He says that
on all planets there are good herbs and BAD HERBS, like the bad apple style, I understood it, if I
see it from that perspective, all the following comments sound crazy to me, from good seeds
good herbs come out, like from such a stick to such a splinter. Bad, he says, at first it seems like
a harmless little wisp, but THE PLANT MUST BE UPLOADED IMMEDIATELY, he says that they
can blow up the planet, as if they were a danger to the country. He then clarified that it was a
matter of DISCIPLINE. It sounded like a military thing to me, then he commented that he asked
me to make a drawing so that it would FIT WELL IN THE CHILDREN'S HEADS, and he asked why
there isn't another drawing in this book as great as the one of the Boabas? He asks the reader,
and I think the answer is: because it is what interested him most of all the beautiful metaphors
that he uses, this idiology was the one that most mattered to him to express, I don't even
know if consciously. Another section of the book that continues along the same lines is when
he talks to the person who turns off the lantern, the Little Prince asks why he turned off the
lantern and the lamplighter says it is the CLOCKPOINT, the Little Prince tells him that he does
not understand and the lamplighter answers, there is no nothing to understand the slogan is
the slogan, it sounded to me like military orders that should not be questioned, only followed,
then he goes on to say that of all the men he met this was “the only one” who did not seem
ridiculous to him and who could having been a friend, just the one who follows orders without
questioning (law of due obedience). The lamplighter is special in the book for him, as is the
drawing of the boabas, and I continue to conclude that it is because it was the ideology he
wanted to convey, wrapped in beautiful metaphors Karina.