Book Review and

Article Critique
Submitted by:

Ayesha Magullado

Tricia Nicolle Maldevia

Jayson Molanda

Christine Mancilla

Romelyn Patricio

Submitted to:

Ms. Jo-ann Medianero

Book Review
“The Little Prince”, was written by Antione de-Saint Exupery, it is an French
Literature. The story was all about the Little Prince, the narrator, an airplane
pilot, crashes in the Sahara Desert. The crash badly damages his airplane
and leaves the narrator with very little food or water. As he is worrying over
his predicament, he approach by the little prince, a very serious little blond
boy who asks the narrator to draw him a sheep. The narrator obliges, and
the two become friends. The pilot learns that the little prince comes from a
small planet that the little prince calls asteroid 325 but that people on earth
 asteroid B-612. The little prince took great care of this planet, preventing
any bad seeds from growing and making sure it was never ever overrun by
baobab trees. One day, a mysterious rose sprouted on the planet and the
little prince fell in love with it. But when he caught the rose in lie one day, he
decides that he could not trust her anymore. He grew lonely and decided to
leave. The little prince set out to explore other planets and cure his
loneliness.

While journeying, the narrator tells us, the little prince passes by
neighboring asteroids and encounters for the first time the strange narrow-
minded world of grown-ups. On the first six planets the little prince visits, he
meets a king, a vain man, a drunkard, a businessman, a lamplighter, and a
geographer all of whom live alone and are overly consumed by their chosen
occupations.

In this story we have so many lessons to learn like the little prince admire
the faithfulness of the lamplighter and to own everything, and he does not
learning anything useful. However, he learns from the geographer that
flowers do not lasts forever, and he begin to miss the rose he has left
behind. Also the little prince bears his trust to the snake which is bite him
falls noiselessly to the sand.

The little prince be friends a fox, who teaches him that the important things
in life are visible only to the heart, that his time away from the rose makes
the rose more special to him, and that loves a person responsible for the
beings the one loves.

In this story, we realizes that, even though there are many rose, his love for
his rose make her unique and that he is therefore responsible for her.
Despite this type of revelation, he still feels very lonely because he is so far
from rose. At that moment, too many people do not see what is truly
important in life. This story realizes us how life is important. Also we can
conclude, that every one of us has uniqueness. In this world, nothing is
perfect. And, “only with the heart that can see rightly, what is essential is
invisible to the eye”.
 Article Critique
“Editorial: frightening report on extra judicial killings in the Philippines by
Editorial Desk,” it is from Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN). Amnesty
International’s report on the extra judicial killings in the Philippines is
frightening. But more frightening is the blithe way the Duterte administration
is a brushing it aside.

In December 2014, the global human rights monitor Amnesty International

slammed the administrator of President Benigno Aquino III for what it was
the, “very widespread and routine” practice by the police of torturing
suspected criminals. Five years earlier, in 2009. The last year President
 Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s a year stay in Malacanang, it denounced the
“hundred of unlawful and often politically-motivated killings that have taken
place as well as enforced disappearances, often involving torture and urged
Arroyo to leave behind a positive human rights legacy.

Extra-Judicial Killing ( also known as extrajudicial) is defined as a deliberated

killing not authorized by a previous judgment pronounced by a regularly
constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized
as indispensible by civilized people.

Likewise, in this report, the families of the some of the victims related that
the police demanded money for the release of their kin arrested on drug
suspicion.

Especially in the case of Duterte’s centerpiece war on drugs, which’ before it

was suspended as a result of the uproar over the kidnap-murder by cops of
a Korean businessman, had become an all-out assault on impoverished
Filipinos.

Most of 7000 killed so far were destitute, and died without the benefit of the
fundamental due process that was their right as citizen. But even that
terrible body count was still insufficient to move the administration to take a
second look at its imploding campaign-now officially suspended, but still
reaping corpse at night.