Book Report:

The Prince and The Pauper

by Mark Twain

Submitted by:

Rovin Nio P. Montao

Gr. 7 Descartes

Mrs. Alcayde
 Profundity scale technique

A. Physical Level

The Prince and the Pauper is a story about two boys in 16th century England who were born

on the same day and look identical, but are not related to each other. One named Edward Tudor is

a prince, and the other named Tom Canty, is a pauper. Ten years later, Tom Canty Has grown into

a well-mannered child, so different from his peers and is highly intellect. Meanwhile, Edward

Tudor, the heir to the throne is being trained so early in his life and being taught on what to do and

say, this in turn, made him want freedom.

One day, Tom sneaked in the palace garden to accomplish his dream which is to see a real-life

prince and he meets the one. When Edward let him in inside the palace they connected really fast

and shared their own experiences. At a later time, they decided to exchange their clothes, making

Edward Tudor look like Tom Canty and Tom Canty looking like the fine prince. The guards

discover them and throws out the prince by mistake since they are identical. Nobody believes them

when they try to tell the truth that the other is not the true prince/pauper. Soon after, the old king

dies and the prince will inherit the throne. The evil earl of Hertford attempts to murder the prince

to gain power himself.

B. Mental/ intellectual leveL

The pauper exchanged clothes with the prince because he wants to know what it feels like

to be a prince, to be rich and famous and to be loved by people. The prince exchanged clothes with

the pauper because he wants to know what it feels like to be free. This gradually made Edward see

how the people in his kingdom are living and experiences how Tom lived in such a putrid place.

The prince in turn gets the beatings that Tom gets from his father and grandmother and tells

the that he is not Tom but instead the prince of Wales, but they didnt believe him, nobody did

since his resemblance with Tom Canty was so accurate that no one could tell them apart.
C. moral/ethical level

It is wrong for the prince and the pauper to exchange with each other because they need to

learn how to love their selves. They shouldnt have exchanged even though they wanted to have

what the other has. They thought at first that it will be fun to do, that it will be fun to experience

what the other experiences.

But the exchange went bonkers, they still shouldnt have exchanged because their lives

were so different, they didnt even examine the pros and cons on what could possibly happened.

They didnt know the bad things that the other manages to handle on a daily basis, All they know

is the positive things and disregarded other stuff to be considered like how people would possibly

treat them.

I think its destiny that put them on this situation. Edward Tudor wouldnt know how hard

his peoples lives are. Now he knows the problems he should solve when he becomes the king.

These experiences will make him a better king. Tom Canty learned a lot of things. He became

more confident of his self and learned how to solve the problems of others.
d. Psychological/ emotional level

The prince felt anger, regret and sadness because he thought that Tom was enjoying his life

as a prince and that Toms life was easy and not hard at all. He felt immense regret of exchanging

with each others identities because John Canty and the grandmother of Tom beat Tom on an

occasional basis and he gets beaten because he was mistaken to be Tom. He didnt know before

that being Tom was hard because he gets beaten by his father and grandmother and is

underestimated by people around him.

Edward Tudor and Tom Canty got to satisfy their curiosity to each others life. Edward

Tudor faced the consequences of being Tom Canty while Tom Canty enjoyed the privilege of

being Edward Tudor.

E. universal/philosophical level

It is wrong to pretend to be other people because you are like lying. You are fooling

other people. You should be proud of yourself. You are on that status for a reason so prove that

you are worthy of it. If you want to rise another level you should work hard for it.

We should not be ashamed of what we have. We should not be ashamed of ourselves

because this is us we dont need to change ourselves to be accepted. Just be our true selves. We

also need to learn how to love our self.

We can learn that we don't need to be choosy on what we have. We must be happy on what

we are or what we have in life.