Ignnocenrance

You are the snake.


Saint Exupery's 'The Little Prince' Quiz.
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I got this quiz while blog surfing. It's a nice quiz. You guys should try it too. I really wish I was the boa constrictor which swallowed the elephant. Well, too bad... that would be so Straaaaaaaangggggeee.

I read the The Little Prince sometime back, but of all the characters, the snake was the biggest puzzle to me. I never really did understand its motive in biting the little prince. I guess it didn't need to have one. Frankly, in the book there are other nastier characters 'oh-so-self-important' characters. But I remeber feeling anger against the snake. Maybe it's because I can't thoroughly understand that "what is essential is invisible to the eye'. Maybe it because, the little prince's journey back to his planet looked too much like death. Or maybe it's because the snake had that power to kill. But was the snake evil or was it simply something natural? It is a puzzle, in less than a page, it has come, it has taken or it has given and left.

Maybe truly innocent beings ( I shan't say people)know no fear, not even of death? But there was a question I had always wondered on reading The LIttle Prince . where is the line between innocence and ignorance. Maybe if one has never known bitterness, evil, sadness, death one could be truly innocent. But I would not want a life like that, perhaps that's why I will continue to puzzle over the snake.

[Shuts! I really need to slap myself! I have wasted an hour on this and my exam's is tomorrow. Oh well...."Ignorance is Bliss" if only i can enter the exam hall with this motto. I wonder how the little prince would react to exams? He would probably hand in a blank sheet (what is essential invisible to the eye)]