The Little Prince Fact Sheet

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Name ___Daniel Stephenson____ The Little Prince Chapters 1 and 2:

Vocabulary: Match the words on the left with their meanings on the right. Then use each number word to fill in the blanks in the sentences below.

__c___ Apparition a. amazed
__e___ Prey b. dwelling place
__d___ Pondered c. ghost
__b___ Habitation d. thought, contemplated
__f___ Isolated e. animal hunted for food
__a___ Astounded f. secluded, alone

If all your friends left, your telephone was not working and the television was broken, you would feel _____Isolated______.

If you had neglected your studies, forgotten to do your homework and daydreamed through class, the “A” you received on you final exam would leave you ____Astounded_______.

The white-robed creature that had appeared to you alone was surely a(n) _____Apparition_______.

As a child you ______Pondered_______ the size of the universe and the meaning of life; as an adult you have no time for such things.

The boa constrictor eats it’s _______Prey________ in one swallow.

We were stranded in the middle of the desert, a thousand miles from any human _____Habitation_____.
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In the context of the story, “taming” something means to have ties to it, to connect with it, invest time and effort into it, and to give a part of yourself to it. This makes friendship extremely important because life requires balance understanding, which is acquired through “taming,” because through taming is the only way to truly understand something, a truth that I, and most likely the entire human race has experienced. For example the little prince’s rose wasn’t important because it was beautiful or rare, but because of time the prince spent on it, and his for it. This helped the little prince understand there are thousands of roses in the world, to the prince there is only one rose, his

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