The Flower:
- she is vain, not modest/humble
- she plays the victim, fakes cough to make Little Prince feel guilty
- she's too proud, has a superior attitude, makes high-maintenance demands
- all this masks her sensitivity, insecurity and vulnerability
- she eventually expresses her feelings/love to the Prince but he doesn't know how to deal with it and leaves her since at one point he thought she wasn't truthful
- what life lessons do you think could be learned from this encounter?
The King:
- he is an absolute monarch: his authority/power has no limit
- he prides himself on giving orders that are reasonable and can be easily fulfilled
- he is absurd and lonely: he wants to make Little Prince his right-hand to be judge, jury and executioner of the rat on planet, yet continuously pardon it since its the only one they have
- what life lessons do you think could be learned from this encounter?
Little Prince
- open-minded, creative
- surprised by grown-ups that are narrow-minded, lack imagination
- he asks questions about that which is invisible or not tangible
- he is inquisitive and believes in exploring
