Journey+Not+The+Goal+(Literary+analysis)

="In Life, It's the Journey, Not the Goal, That Matters"= One lesson we learn in __The Little Prince__ by Antoine de Saint Exupery, is that in life, it's the journey, not the goal, that matters. This means that enjoying wha it takes to get some place in life, or literally someplace counts more than the destination it self. One example that Saint Exupery uses is when little prince meets the railroad switchman and they are talking about the people on the trains. The switchman tells little prince that the grown-ups "are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawnig,"(89) which shows that they find the destination more important thne journey. the children find the jorney more important for the time being. This fact is proven when the switchman says to little prince "..only the children are flattening their noses against the windopanes."(89). The children are the ones enjoying the sight of what's outside the train while the grown-ups are enjoying what's inside their mind (they're dreaming). Another example is Little Prince's entire journey of traveling to all the planets. He's taking the time to talk to all these people/objects and is either learning new things or finding out strange things. He's learning new things like "what is esential is invisible to te eye."(87) Little prince learns this from the fox after he goes to visit him before he leaves. The things the switchman was saying about the people on the trains reminded me of the first time I was on an air plane (that I could remember). I called dibs on the window seat so I could look out and enjoy the clouds as we flew through them. There was a TV on the back of the seat infront of me, but not once did I look at it. For about two hours I was looking out that wndow while my mom was alepand my sister was resting from hyperventilating. And for that two hours I wasnt thnig about Colorado, I was thinking about how fun the trip was. The journey mattered more to me than the goal did.