What good is imagination?

I think st. expury had a couple different reasons for writing "the little prince". first and foremost to warn of the baobab trees. The baobab trees are a very important symbol in the little prince. The first thing you have to understand about them is that they don't hurt large planets, but they can literally rip small planets to shreds. Meaning, adults can live with them easily, but a smaller person might be destroyed by them. The second thing you have to understand about the baobabs is that they are constantly trying to take over the little planet, every time he uproots one, a new one appears a little while later. The little prince says that uprooting the baobab trees isn't hard work, but its very important. I think the trees represent values and ideas other people are trying to push on to you. An older well rounded person might not be as easily corrupted then destroyed as by a baobab as a young impressionable child. The reason i think that the baobabs are the main reason for writing the book is the fact he keeps coming back to it, and his talk about how the picture he drew of them was the one he worked the hardest on. He felt the most urgency while drawing it. I think another reason he wrote it was to show a contrast between adults and children. To explain how different they really are deep down. they find different things important, they understand things a totally different way. He highlighted this trough the story by comparing the pilots emotions in a dangerous crisis, and the little princes emotions. While the pilot tried to fix his engine and find food and water to stay alive, the little prince asked for drawings and talked about the rose he loved. He didn't quite understand the seriousness of the situation he was in. that helped the pilot. It took his find off of things when talking to the little prince, and the fact is, if he had been alone in the desert he would have been much worse off. Maybe even given up the will to live. I think this is one of the main reasons imagination is good. It helps us in times of crisis, even create a new scenario where we can have fun with the things we are doing, so that they don't become a chore. I don't believe it is preferable though, as st. expury seams to think. If you get too wrapped up in your imagination you might become useless. unable to perform simple necessary tasks. You may end up doing something like, turning your bills into paper air plains, or leave the dishes piling up because you are too busy playing with toys. Thats why children wait to leave their houses. Because for a while, they need grownups to help keep them in line and teach them. Children haven't quite found the balance between mundane and necessary, and fun.