Teenagers and children are in danger when playing the game, “Pokemon Go.” According to Document A, ‘Pokemon Go’ Craze Raises Safety Issues, by Sarah E. Needleman, Document B, Pokemon Go: The One Serious Problem Everyone Should Worry About, by Bernard Marr, and Document D, ‘Is Pokemon Go Good For Our Society?,’ each of these sources give us an understanding on why Pokemon Go is endangering our society. Pokemon GO is leading us to dangerous or inappropriate places.
    To begin with, Pokemon Go is leading us to places where we don’t belong. As stated in Document A, “The placements of PokeStops and gyms raise questions about whether players could get hurt searching unsafe areas-a dark alley or along a river, for example-particularly while staring at a smartphone screen”, when players are trying to catch Pokemon, they are staring at their devices so there is a big possibility that they will get injured. When staring at their phones, they don’t know where they are going because their main focus is on their device. Also according to Document A, “The game could be leading people into areas where they don’t belong, such as construction sites or shuttered storefronts.” While playing Pokemon Go, the goal is to catch as many Pokemon as you can but, you need to walk towards places to catch them. Players may be trespassing certain areas just to catch their Pokemon
    Furthermore, Niantic is gaining information about the players and are using that information for the future. As said in Document B, “Companies want to collect as much information as possible about their customers so they can prepare for future business. People never read the lengthy terms of service agreements they’re happily agreeing to, and don’t understand the full information they’re voluntarily giving away.” The more players that are playing Pokemon Go, the more information the company earns, and the more money the company earns, they’ll use this information for the future. Also, stated in Document B, “It uses a Google map and your real-world GPS location to direct you to Pokemon you can catch, and that information can be misused.” Since players don’t understand the information that they are giving away, their information will be misused and companies will use that information in the future.
    To continue on, players who are playing Pokemon Go, are failing to see their surroundings. According to Document D, “News reports say that users have tripped, fallen into a lake, crashed a car, and sustained other injuries while playing.” Not only are the players hurting themselves, but they are also hurting the people  around them. These players are causing many damages to others and themselves. Also, as said in Document D, “A police department in Philadelphia warned on Twitter, “Be mindful of what you play online.” People love to catch Pokemon and play with their friends, but it is dangerous. Players can be in serious danger while playing this game.
    In conclusion, Pokemon Go is not a safe game to play for teenagers and children. Pokemon Go has caused many injuries, sends us to dangerous surrounding, etc. Pokemon Go cannot be played for everyone.  ​

Busy with no chance to rest, the businessman on the fourth planet continues to count the stars that he owns all day long. Throughout all of this chapter, we can see that it’s based on repetition. After visiting numerous planets, the Little Prince finds himself on the 4th planet and finds a man on his desk trying to calculate the stars that he owns in front of him. After he finishes counting them, he counts them again and again. According to the fictional story The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, it demonstrates how stars are counted over and over again by the businessman. The universal theme that is explored in chapter 13 is that patterns have segments that are repeated; this is revealed through the characterization of the businessman, the different points of view, and an allusion to a greedy economy.
    To begin with, the Little Prince visits the 4th planet which is owned by a businessman who continues to count stars on his desk. According to The Little Prince, the businessman repeats himself by saying, “Three and two make five. Five and seven, twelve. Twelve and three, fifteen. Hello. Fifteen and seven, twenty-two. Twenty-two and six, twenty-eight. No time to light it again. Twenty-six and five, thirty-one. Whew! That amounts to five-hundred-and-one-million, six-hundred-twenty-two-thousand, seven hundred thirty-one.” This shows that even though the Little Prince is trying to have a conversation with the businessman, the businessman blocks what the Little Prince is saying and focuses on counting his stars. After finish counting his stars, the businessman starts over and continues counting. Also, a picture that is illustrated in The Little Prince displays, a businessman repeatedly counting stars. After analyzing the image, we can come to a conclusion that there is a pattern going on with the businessman on this planet. Although, the businessman finishes counting the stars on his desk, he starts over and over. No matter how many times he has found the result of how many stars are on his desk, he will never take a pause when doing something else. Furthermore, after encountering the businessman, the Little Prince begins to start a conversation while the businessman remains still counting the stars that he owns. As said in The Little Prince, “To whom do they belong?” retorted the businessman grumpily. “I don’t know. To nobody.” “Then they don’t belong to me, because I thought of it first… Now I own the stars, since no one before me ever thought of owning them.” This explains to us that the businessman’s mindset is that since he had the idea of owning the stars, he believes that the stars are his property. The Little Prince’s mindset is that the stars aren’t owned by anyone. From looking at both of their perspectives we notice that they both have different opinions about who owns the stars. Also said in The Little Prince, “And what do you do with them?” the little prince said. “I manage them. I count them and then count them again,” the businessman said. “It’s difficult work. But you can’t pick the stars!” When the businessman explained what he executes with the stars, it shows us that even after finished counting his stars, he will forever continue counting them. The businessman understands that it challenging but he never stops counting his stars.
    Furthermore, after encountering the businessman, the little prince had noticed that there was an allusion to a greedy economy. According to The Little Prince the businessman shows greed by saying "And what good does it do you to own the stars? It does me the good of making me rich. And what good does it do you to be rich? It makes it possible for me to buy more stars, if any are discovered." This shows that the only reason the businessman wants the stars is to buy more stars. This shows that he is being greedy and wanting all the stars to himself even though he has no use for the stars, other than to buy more stars. Also another piece of information on greed is in The Little Prince, "I myself own a flower,  he continued his conversation with the businessman, which I water every day. I own three volcanoes, which I clean out every week (for I also clean out the one that is extinct; one never knows). It is of some use to my volcanoes, and it is of some use to my flower, that I own them. But you are of no use to the stars . . . The businessman opened his mouth, but he found nothing to say in answer. And the little prince went away.” This shows that the businessman is greedy because although the stars have no use from the businessman he continued to call them his. This is how there was an allusion to a greedy economy in The Little Prince.
    In conclusion, the businessman finishes counting the stars which in he sees as something valuable and the little prince doesn’t see anything special in them. The universal theme is patterns which states how the businessman counted stars repeatedly, how the businessman and the little prince have different points of view like we have all had, and finally the concentration the businessman had towards the stars was always there.
















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After reading The Little Prince, my group and I created the scene where the Little Prince visits the 4th planet and meets the businessman. This is supposed to show that the businessman sees the stars as money while the Little Prince views them as just stars.