The Happy Prince

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Happy Prince tale give us some moral values. According to me, the first moral value that can we found in this tale is to be happy is good, but we must look around us too. Not only us who has right to be happy but other people has right to be happy too. As a Prince in that time, Happy Prince is a must to know his people. During his life, he just know about happiness because in that palace he always be happy, live in luxurious place with so many luxurious things too, he almost never being sad. He never know what happen behind the palace wall. In fact, behind that wall there are many people who get misery because they are poor. They don’t have enough money to buy luxurious things like what Happy Prince has. To find food or to buy it they must work had. If they are sick, they only take care in their own house without a good treatment. How poor they are. The happy prince realize that condition when he was died and become a luxurious statue. His place in the middle of town. So, everyday, every night, every time he can see the people’s activities. He can see how misery they are. Happy Prince describes our leader whether he is father, major, governor even president. As a good leader they must look around them, they must know what happen with them in reality. They must not be happy by himself while his other populace are misery.
Second thing that can I get from this tale come from a little bird. A little bird open the Happy Prince way to compensate his mistake as long as he life. In the beginning the little bird just want to stay there for a while but Happy Prince try to make him stay there longer by gives some reasons. A little bird doubt to help him first. But, finally the little bird wants to stay there longer and he wants to help him until the end of his life. From this action we can conclude that to help someone we must consider whether it is really good to help or
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