When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey." That is the mystery of The Little Prince, a novel that represents and emphasizes some of the many roles of aspects in life - such as honesty, loneliness, hate, success, love, compassion, fear, regret - and has a strange power to portray them with extreme precision. I have learned so much about life from this richly-themed novel that since reading it, I have been seeing and understanding the world differently.