Name: Darren Lee Jin Wei

Student Number: F10DM0392

Course: Design and Media, Animation

Class: 2B

Exercise 1

The Little Prince

The little prince symbolizes a traveller who is thrown into a new world which he is unfamiliar with and is trying to comprehend. The little prince in a sense is like new child who is brought into this world. With what he knows, he tries to make sense of all that is around him. The little prince to me is like the child in all of us, innocent, inquisitive, focused, imaginative, judgmental, accepting and loyal, the sort of qualities we all possess at a young age. But with life's trials and challenges, the child within is is slowly loss, just as the little prince struggles to make sense of all that the grown-ups are trying to tell him, the child within is gradually bombarded with the norms of a "grown-up" civilization and sooner or later just as the little price himself is lost, only to be remembered of fondly in memory. The little prince being a main character is very crucial to the story as he helps to drive it along and gives us a good view of his understanding of what the adults are trying to get him to understand. The key message behind the little price is that we must never lose sight of the child within us all, and that sometimes, the easiest solutions are sometimes the best.

Mr Twit

Mr Twit is portrayed as a horrid person of foul personality and equally revolting traits such as licking trapped food out of his mustache. His character is the classic "Bad Guy" in the book, to the reader he is un-likable, foul and cruel and as the story proceeds cements himself solidly as the role of the main antagonist . Mr Twit signifies all the evil things in the world which plague the human race, deceit, revenge, narcissism, gluttony, rage, lack of personal hygiene, apathy. Mr twit is a "living" embodiment of all that society has tried to remove from the population. Mr twit is therefore a good example of what would happen if anyone succumbs to the evils of the world. He feels no remorse in any of his actions and seems to take pride in them whenever they succeed. Mr twit is crucial to the story, being a main character, his actions allow the story to proceed. His interactions with his equally revolting wife help the reader better understand their separate yet characters and also look into how Mr twits mind works, the evil plans he formulates as the story goes along The key message behind Mr twit is that do not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you. In Mr twits case in the end he was tricked into standing on his head just as he had subjected the four monkeys which he owned to. Which brings me to my second point, which is, wit and brains can trump brawn. Though lacking the firepower being wielded by Mr twit, Muglewump the monkey, his family, the Roly Poly bird and its other feathered brethren succeeded in fooling Mr twit and ultimately casing him to succumb to his very own trap which he had originally intended for the birds.