Comparing the Journey in Little Prince, Siddhartha, and the Monkey God

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The Journey in Little Prince, Siddhartha, and the Monkey God

Have you ever realize that there is something incomplete in your

life, both on the outside and from within? Whatever that may be, you have

something in common with the main character from each of these works: The

Little Prince, Siddhartha, and The Monkey God. All three works are about

someone sensing something is missing and thus sets forth on a "journey" to

fill in that hole. The Little Prince, from The Little Prince, sets on a

journey to find out how to love and what he learned was more than love, it

was the aspect behind taming. Siddhartha, from Siddhartha, left his life

filled with riches and pleasure to seek nirvana and riddance of the "Self."

And finally the half human, half monkey, from The Monkey God, sets on a

search to learn how to respect and maturity to fully utilize the powers he

held as a god. All three works are totally different in environment,

characters, and time setting, but they all have one similar goal; to find

and complete their quest.

The Little Prince's journey to find out how to love grows from the

missing link between his flower and him. But he learns that love comes

from taming which he has never heard of. Starting from the comfort of his

home on Asteriod-612, he left to travel far and wide to seek the meaning of

love. Having the opportunity to meet many people, he learns something from

each and one of them. The king represented the evil of totalitarianism,

the conceited man represents one of the evil aspects of human, the tippler

showed the sorrow and pain a person can hold, the businessman showed how a

person can possess greed, the lamplighter represents loyalty, one of the

good sides of human being, finally meeting the geographer, the Little

Prince learns curiosity and hard work. But meeting all these people still

haven't gave the Little Prince what he wanted yet. He finally trampled

upon Earth, where he will soon find what he is looking for. The first

person he met on Earth was the snake, a symbol of evil and deceit. But the

Little Prince was not alone as he also finds the narrator who will be his

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