Reflection Essay About The Happy Prince

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Hi, I chose the story of The Happy Prince because it is a beautiful story that opens our eyes to the current reality, where poverty and greed abound, and with the example of solidarity of the prince we can be born love and peace.

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The happy prince is the story of a statue that lay in the highest part of the city, whose statue was admired by all, from the children to the highest representatives of the city, like the mayor. Even a failed man, who cried to see the statue so happy and said, if there is someone in the world completely happy.

One day a swallow flew to the city, her companions had flown to Egypt, but she remained for being very in love with a reed that was in a river. But it was said, I like to travel, the
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Until I died, and now from here I can see the misery of my city. I see a very poor seamstress woman, she has her son sick, and he asks for orange, and she gives him river water. Take the ruby of my sword, I can not, I go to Egypt, replied the swallow, stay one night to be my messenger, the swallow accepted and took the ruby of the sword of, THE HAPPY PRINCIPE and I take it in the beak to the House of the poor woman, I left it at the table and returned and told what happened to the …show more content…
My eyes are two sapphires, Take one, he will sell it; I can not do that, said the swallow and began to cry, but as the prince insisted, I took the sapphire and took it to the young man's house, entering the ceiling and leaving it on a bouquet of

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