Exercise #1

Character Study:

Mrs Twit
Appearance:

• Dirty
• Very ugly
• Has one glass eye
• Carries a walking stick to fool people that she has difficulty walking, but actually uses it to hurt animals and children
• Old

Background:

• She is married to her equally unpleasant husband, Mr Twit.
• She was born beautiful, but her evil and ugly thoughts caused her to grow more hideous as she grew older.

Strengths:

• Sneaky and able to pull tricks on Mr Twit.

Weaknesses:

• Gullible

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Write Up:

When one thinks of someone's wife, one would picture her as the softer and more demure counter-part to the husband. However, in Mrs Twit's case, she's equally as nasty as her husband. Both in her personality and appearance. 

Mrs Twit did not always look as hideous as she was now and infact, she was born quite pretty. Gradually she became very ugly as her thoughts were equally as nasty and scheming. No sign of kindness or gentleness can be seen on her horrid face. In my opinion, if she smiles, the whole world would cringe for awhile. That is how nasty she is.

In the story, she and her husband Mr Twit goes through a series of pranks they play on each other. These pranks are definitely not light-hearted. They are quite evil and horrifying. Although Mrs Twit is female, she is shown to be as equally mean and vengeful as her husband. This proves that not all females are gentle and soft-hearted or even 'weaker'.

Mrs Twit is an interesting character to me, however. She is a very strong woman. Strong, and strong-willed, even if its on the negative intentions. Even after being tricked by Mr Twit, she gets back on her feet and gave him a taste of his own medicine afterwards. This also shows that she's quite clever and possibly more clever than Mr Twit himself. 

She is also very crucial to the story as she keeps up with Mr Twit's mischief and they continuously plot against each other. Their constant pranks shows how quick-thinking yet evil their minds are. Despite being married to each other, they seem to hate each other so much. Somehow they are still 'together' as they are married.

The moral of the story is defined in the common phrase; 'what goes around, comes around'. They are both horrible individuals that did nothing but evil to each other and anyone around them. They were so mean to others that they did not even have the thought that something bad might happen to them in return. At the end of the story, they both 'disappear' due to the Shrinks and noone mourns for them or even feel sad. Infact people are glad and relieved that they're gone.


The Little Prince
Appearance:

• Curly golden blonde hair
• Very small

Background:

• He comes from an asteroid 'planet' called B-612 which is, as he described, very tiny: a size of a house.
• He left his planet to see how the rest of the universe is like.

Strengths:

• Polite
• Observant

Weaknesses:

• Takes things too seriously, easily gets upset

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Write Up:

As the story is titled The Little Prince, it shows that the story is mainly revolving around him despite having the Narrator being introduced first in the story. The Little Prince is a protagonist as he's good-hearted and is the one leading the story. He is very likeable and has the child-like innocence.

I believe that the Little Prince represents children and their innocence to the world. He is soft-hearted and pure, showing that he hasn't seen the harshness of the 'grown up' world. He is also curious and eager to explore, hence even rejecting an offer by a snake to return to his home planet.

He is also shown as being very naive, a trait common with children.

He is important to the story because the story follows him and his curiosity to explore the world, without him, the Narrator would not have anyone to talk or narrate about.