In preparation for writing a review of The Little Prince Opera, let’s practice writing a recommendation for a movie.  In your comment, please tell us the name of the movie, evaluate the movie on a couple of criteria, and tell whether or not you recommend the movie.  Here is my example.
I recommend the movie Chocolat [...]

Thank you for your posts and comments on our IES Book and Literature Circle Blog! This is a great way to continue discussing the book throughout the week and for the various literature circle groups to interact with one another! This past week, the Little Prince left his planet and began his journey [...]

The characters in this section, except the Lamplighter, represent adults thoughts and attitudes.  For example, the King is kind of human ego, the Businessman represents to gain money or benefit, so in this story, the stars show money.  The geographer represents to be honor and the vain man represents self-loving.  So all these people represent [...]

The businessman was very busy to calculate.  He has a lot of money.  He is satisfied with placing money in the bank.  Is he happy or unhappy?
Azusa said that he is unhappy because he doesn’t have a chance to use it.  Kaori said that he is happy because he likes to calculate and make money.  [...]

Every grown-up thinks they should be independent or strong, but actually they feel lonely at the same time. They can’t show their weakness or real feelings, so they want to run away from themselves. For example, the drunkard always drinks to forget his weakness because he should solve his weakness by himself.
The gentleman [...]

Everyone is lonely and works to forget the loneliness.  They make themselves busy and complain about business.
The King is a contradictory person because he seems to be knowledgeable and he wants to be reasonable king, but he can’t follow his words.
The author has a negative view of this world.  He wants to argue social issues [...]

We talked about who is the silliest character. Each character has his own irony for the grown-ups. We though geographer has narrow mind. He can only hear what he wants. He is studying about mountain, but he didn’t experience mountain, so he can’t write about real mountain.
I searched The Little Prince. [...]

There is a drunkard in this book.  He drank a lot to forget something ashames, and we were very interested in that, so we discussed about it.  We sometimes see this kind of adult.  Why do they drink instead of other activity to forget something?
Mami said it is easy to do because they drink while [...]

Mami and Momo commented on the difference between the way children and adults perceive appearances.
Grown-ups don’t believe the man who looks strange. They tend to mind appearances. In this story, Turkish astronomer, who had made a formal demonstration of his discovery at the Congress, but no one had believed him because of his [...]

Here is what Keiko, Kento, Takayuki, Satomi, and Shiho had to say about The Little Prince after reading pages 1-27 of the book.
The narrator was disappointed by the ideas from adults. He was influenced by it and unconsciously he was becoming like an adult. But he met Little Prince and he was influenced [...]