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Book Review: “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Details:

Year of Publication: 1943

Genre: Fable (Middle Grade)

Format (How I Read It): Paperback

Goodreads Synopsis:

A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. “Please,” asks the stranger, “draw me a sheep.” And the pilot realizes that when life’s events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil and paper… And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed forever the world for its readers.

Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince , presented here in a stunning new translation with carefully restored artwork. The definitive edition of a worldwide classic, it will capture the hearts of readers of all ages.

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Themes: Don’t judge others. Friendship. Listen to your heart. Don’t grow up too fast.

“Then you shall pass judgment on yourself,” the king answered. “That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it’s because you are truly a wise man.”

Character Development: The pilot and the Little Prince were definitely the two most important characters of this story, and the other minor characters that showed up were really only there to establish different lessons and morals. Which was fine! It’s a very abstract story with unusual characters. I was intrigued by them, but didn’t necessarily feel super connected to them.

Plot/Pacing: For such a short book, it did move pretty slow. It goes at a leisurely pace as both the pilot and the Little Prince learn various life lessons. There was one section where the Little Prince is hopping from planet to planet, and these were probably my favorite chapters! They felt more lively and introduced several new, odd characters.

“He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I’ve made him my friend, and now he’s the only fox in all the world.”

Writing Style: Whimsical. Abstract.

“Bingeability”: Moderate. It’s short, but since it’s so abstract you kind of have to take your time and really think about what’s happening.

Emotional Investment: Moderate.

Windows and Mirrors: Other planets?

“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”

Overall Thoughts: This was a strange book! I somehow had never read this as a kid, but I had definitely heard of it. That being said, I went in to it knowing little-to-nothing about the story. It was much weirder and more confusing than I expected! And I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way. I thought it had a lot of great themes in it which I found really interesting. However, it still didn’t love this one. I normally like this type of book; it reminded me of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, which is similar in that it is fable-like and is more focused on theme rather than plot or character development. However, something was just missing for me here. But I think it’s just a personal issue! I just didn’t connect with it, but it’s a well-written and thought-provoking book that is worthy of its status as a classic.

Recommendation: I work with many emergent bilinguals, and I couldn’t help but think about them as I was reading. I think this would be a difficult one to read in a language that isn’t your dominant language, so that’s definitely something to keep in mind. That being said, I think this would be fun to do as a novel study with advanced readers (maybe 5th grade and up). I was also thinking that some of the chapters could work as expert models for learning about theme! Some are short and could stand on their own, so this could be a good way to use it in the classroom.

Thank you for reading my review! Leave a comment letting me know if you’ve read this one or have any questions about it, and keep an eye out for my next review!

Review: The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I often wonder if I’ll ever reach a point in my reading life where I’m satisfied by the amount of books I’ve read; where I can say with confidence that I’ve read the classics and the critically acclaimed that have long haunted my to-be-read pile. Thus far, 2019 has been a good year for books: I read my first Agatha Christie, I read a Russian classic hailed by many as the best book of the twentieth century. I finished thirteen books in January; more in the months that have since passed. I too have read my first book by an Indonesian author, and a couple of contemporary novels I’ve had my eye on for a while. And yet, and yet, there are still many hundred of books I fear I may never get around to reading, unless given a particular reason to do so.

The Little Prince was one of the said unread books until a fortnight ago. While I’m sure I may have read it as a child, as an adult it’s always been a book that had never quite made it to my list of reading priorities until a friend recommended it recently. I had just finished The Master and Margarita when I was queuing for a coffee at my local bookshop in Bondi, Gertrude & Alice, and I saw they had the Penguin Classic edition was on sale. With no plans for the rest of the morning, hot drink in hand, I settled myself down to read, the air infused with coffee beans and the hum of idle chatter.

Beloved by many since its first publication in 1943, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince is an enchanting fable imbued with life lessons that tells the tale of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the intricacies of adult behaviour through a series of unexpected encounters.

A profound and poetic tale, the story is a philosophical one and through its social criticism of the adult world, reminds its readers that we were all children once. Written during a period when Saint-Exupéry fled to North America subsequent to the Fall of France during the Second World War, it is, according to one review, “…an allegory of Saint-Exupéry’s own life—his search for childhood certainties and interior peace, his mysticism, his belief in human courage and brotherhood, and his deep love for his wife Consuelo but also an allusion to the tortured nature of their relationship.”

Rich with timeless lessons that are cushioned behind layers of delightful story-telling. The Little Prince is the sort of book that will inspire wonder and reflection, even in the most cynical, and world-weary adult.

And so, to end, my favourite quote from this poignant and profound novella: “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

About The Little Prince

Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of extraordinary encounters. His personal odyssey culminates in a voyage to Earth and further adventures.

About Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry was born in 1900 in Lyon. In 1921, he began his training as a pilot By 1926, he had became one of the pioneers of international postal flight. In 1935 he embarked on a record-breaking attempt to fly from Paris to Saigon. Nineteen hours into the flight, his plane crashed in the Sahara desert. He survived the crash but spent three days battling dehydration, limited food and hallucinations. On the fourth day, the was rescued. In part, this experience was the inspiration for The Little Prince . He continued to fly until World War II, during which he took self-imposed exile. On 31 July 1944, he disappeared over the Mediterranean while flying a reconnaissance mission.

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What a lovely post! I am a new subscriber from Sweden. Looking forward to read more reviews from you!

Thanks for stopping by Anna and for your lovely words – they made my day! xo

I love the little prince it’s my favourite book

It’s a really lovely, touching tale, isn’t it? xo

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Read the first reviews of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince .

Today marks the 79th anniversary of the disappearance of French writer, journalist, and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. On July 31, 1944, Saint-Exupéry took off in an unarmed P-38 on his ninth reconnaissance mission for the Free French Air Force from an airbase on Corsica, and never returned.

His most famous work, The Little Prince , tells the story of an aviator, downed in the desert and facing long odds of survival (inspired by the author’s own experience crash landing in the Libyan desert in 1935), who encounters a strange young prince, fallen to earth from a tiny asteroid where he lived alone with a single rose. The rose has made him so miserable that, in torment, he has taken advantage of a flock of birds to convey him to other planets.

As Barry James in The New York Times wrote: “A children’s fable for adults, The Little Prince was in fact an allegory of Saint-Exupéry’s own life—his search for childhood certainties and interior peace, his mysticism, his belief in human courage and brotherhood, and his deep love for his wife Consuelo but also an allusion to the tortured nature of their relationship.”

We take a look back at some of the earliest reviews of Katherine Woods’ 1943 English language translation of this beloved and deceptively profound novella.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

“There is a verse in the New Testament which is often quoted but never taken seriously. Had it been we would not today be tearing the planet and its civilization to bits. That verse in the 18th Chapter of Matthew tells us that except we become as children we cannot enter the Kingdom. And I hope I give no offense in this connection if I say that the text may be applied to literature. For I think that much of the wisest literature is that which seems written for children—stories of Aesop and Hans Christian Andersen, for example. And please consider those sentences my review of a beautiful book written and illustrated by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (Reynal & Hitchcock: $2). For here is a sweetly and simply told tale of a little boy from a very little asteroid, so big with meaning that even important people will find wisdom in it; so simply told that even critics and college professors ought to understand its beauty and meaning; a thin little book filled with rich substance; something easy to read and remember and hard to forget.”

–Paul Jordan-Smith, The Los Angeles Times , 1943

“The door’s wide open on my guess as to how this will sell. It may get a break, it may be read by the right people, those rare adults who can go over the border of the Never Never Land without a backward look, who can sense intuitively that intangible outer fringe of unreality that is wholly real to children. Let’s say that those who loved the fey quality in Barrie—in Robert Nathan—who read their Alice for sheer escape rather than self conscious nostalgia, they will touch the gossamer beauty of The Little Prince , and chuckle over it, and take it as simply and unaffectedly as ‘St Ex’ himself. Perhaps belief in ‘the little prince’ is the forerunner of belief in the gremlins; who knows? This is a fairy tale for grown ups; later the children will claim it, I am sure. It is the tale of the tiny creature who came to Saint-Exupery when he was stranded in the Sahara, who told him the saga of his exotic travels in search of truth, when he left his own tiny asteroid, and visited others, until he reached the earth. It was the fox who wanted to be tamed who taught him that he must return to his own and find there the happiness and the meaning of life he had left.”

–Kirkus , April 1, 1943

“…children are like sponges. They soak into their pores the essence of any book they read, whether they understand it or not … The Little Prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam. It will strike them in some place that is not the mind and glow there until the time comes for them to comprehend it.”

–P.L. Travers (author of Mary Poppins ), The New York Herald Tribune , 1943

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By Dan Kois

Nov. 5, 2010

You know the Little Prince, of course: the golden hair and ruddy cheeks, the long scarf trailing in the Sahara wind, all familiar from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beloved 1943 parable. But what about the pilot? Saint-Exupéry made sketches of the narrator of “The Little Prince,” but the airman — whose crash-landing gives the Prince’s planet-hopping philosophical adventures their frame — never makes an appearance in the book’s final version.

The pilot finally is seen in the French cartoonist Joann Sfar’s thoughtful new comics adaptation of “The Little Prince,” which has been gracefully translated by Sarah Ardizzone. And his appearance is the key to what makes this graphic novel not only a charming diversion but a new way of looking at a classic. With his arched eyebrows and receding hairline, Sfar’s pilot is a ringer for Saint-Exupéry himself.

“The Little Prince” has always been regarded as a psychological self-portrait of the daring aviator and author — who wrote it in New York, despairing of his marriage, despondent at the French surrender, desperate to return to the air. (He had been grounded by the Allies for one too many plane mishaps.) And he cast his wife as the fickle, demanding rose, who vexes the Little Prince as much as Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry vexed Antoine.

Sfar is a major cartoonist in a country that really values cartoonists. In America he’s best known for the graphic novel “The Rabbi’s Cat” and the “Dungeon” adventure comedy series. Sfar’s illustrations at times mirror Saint-Exupéry’s own — several denizens of outer asteroids could almost have been lifted straight from his sketchbook — but the Prince himself is shorter and squatter than you remember him, with bigger eyes. Less like an icon, and more like a real kid.

Indeed, Sfar’s comic may well appeal to real kids more than the original does. Its philosophical pronouncements, while wise as ever, are gently embedded in the story rather than acting as punctuation marks on each short chapter. Sfar transforms Saint-Exupéry’s voice — still a bit stuffy for kids, a bit snide for adults — into a living person, who dearly loves his Little Prince. (One effective sequence, invented by Sfar, has the Prince leaping from atop the plane in a joyous somersault to play with a delighted Saint-Exupéry.)

Thus the Prince’s protracted night-time goodbye at the end is newly touching, and harrowing, in Sfar’s book in a way it’s never felt in the original. And the boy’s prediction — that after he disappears into the desert the pilot will forever hear his laughter in the stars — comes on a lovely page on which the Prince himself glows brightly before the gloomy Saint-Exupéry. “When you’re feeling better (we always find consolation in the end) you’ll be glad you knew me,” the Prince says. “You’ll always be my friend.” I’ve always loved that evocative parenthetical, but I love it more when the shining boy who delivers it touches his friend’s shoulder with a tiny hand.

For children, Sfar’s comic represents an excellent point of entry for a well-known work. For grown-ups, it serves as an ode to the author who brought the Little Prince into the world just a year before he, too, disappeared, gone without a trace. Before the war’s end, Saint-Exupéry found a way to fly again, and plunged with his Lockheed P-38 into the sea off the coast of Marseille less than a month before the liberation of Paris. Reading Sfar’s version of his most enduring tale, we are reminded that Saint-Exupéry, like the Prince facing the snake, returned willingly to meet his end.

As part of its richly imagined conclusion, Sfar’s adaptation places us in the cockpit of his P-38 at night. The pilot smiles sadly to himself. The stars surround the plane, as joyous and alive as the Prince promised they would be. His plane skims the waves, which look, in this clever and wondrous retelling, just like the starlit sands of the Sahara.

THE LITTLE PRINCE

Written and illustrated by Joann Sfar

Translated by Sarah Ardizzone

Adapted from the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

110 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $19.99. (Ages 10 and up)

Dan Kois is the author of “Facing Future,” about the musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole.

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Book Review of The Little Prince The Children’s Book Review

The Little Prince

Written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Age Range: 10+

Paperback: 98 pages

ISBN: 978-1949998641

Publisher: Harcourt (1943)

What to expect: Fantasy, Adventure, and Friendship

The Little Prince is a book that has been translated into English from the French language. The author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a pilot. Similarly to the pilot in his story, while flying a mission during World War II, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s plane was shot down, and it disappeared somewhere over the Mediterranean.

The Little Prince is an honest and beautiful story about loneliness, friendship, sadness, and love. The prince is a small boy from a tiny planet (an asteroid to be precise), who travels the universe, planet-to-planet, seeking wisdom. On his journey, he discovers the unpredictable nature of adults. “All grown-ups were once children… but only a few of them remember it.”

The story begins on Earth with the narrator—a crashed pilot stranded in the Sahara Desert, who is trying hard to repair his wrecked plane. One day a little boy, oddly dressed, shows up out of nowhere and insists that the pilot draw him a sheep. The pilot obeys this odd request, which strangely enough leads to the pilot learning more about the Little Prince and where he came from. What unfolds is a marvelous story that some will deem happy and some will find sad. Either way, all readers will have their minds opened wide and will hopefully grow up to be adults that will always remember they were once children, too.

The Little Prince is a thin book with its mere ninety-eight pages, but don’t be fooled; it’s a brilliant book meant to be deeply thought about and to encourage you to build castles in the air.

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About the Author

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, the “Winged Poet,” was born in Lyon, France, in 1900. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. His writings include The Little Prince, Wind, Sand and Stars, Night Flight, Southern Mail, and Airman’s Odyssey. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean

The Little Prince , written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , was reviewed by Bianca Schulze. Discover more books like The Little Prince by following along with our reviews and articles tagged with Adventure , Antoine de Saint-Exupery , Classics , Fantasy , Friendship , and Middle Grade Books .

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Bianca Schulze is the founder of The Children’s Book Review. She is a reader, reviewer, mother and children’s book lover. She also has a decade’s worth of experience working with children in the great outdoors. Combined with her love of books and experience as a children’s specialist bookseller, the goal is to share her passion for children’s literature to grow readers. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, she now lives with her husband and three children near Boulder, Colorado.

The Little Prince review – the visitor from B-612 reinterpreted

T o all appearances The Little Prince is a children’s book. But ever since its original publication in French in 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s story has enchanted audiences of all ages. The book’s beloved hero is a small, blond-haired boy from asteroid B-612, which he leaves to journey across the galaxy. Along his way, he visits a number of planets each populated by a sole person with an absurd profession (the little prince ultimately learns that there is no other kind). When he lands on Earth, in the middle of the desert, he is met by a mysterious snake. “Where are all the people?” the little prince asks. “I’m beginning to feel lonely in this desert.” “You can feel lonely among people, too,” replies the snake.

However elusive the story’s meaning, few have matched the universality of its appeal. In April 2017, The Little Prince became the most translated book in the world, excluding religious texts (which enjoyed significant head starts). It now exists in 300 languages, a sum that doesn’t even include the range of translations within languages. In Korean, there are said to be about 50 different versions. Until recently, English could claim only a meagre six. Now, Michael Morpurgo , master storyteller and untested translator, has delivered a definitive seventh.

“To be asked to translate one of the greatest stories ever written was an honour I could not refuse,” Morpurgo writes in his foreword. “And if I am honest, I thought my knowledge of French would be just about up to it. Well, I was wrong about that.” The mistake is easy to make, even if Morpurgo’s modesty deceives. The Little Prince is known for its spare and simple prose, and while it is studied in universities, it is taught to beginners of French at school. Saint-Exupéry worked through dozens of drafts to achieve the final aesthetic. On the surface, it leaves translators little room to manoeuvre and it’s tempting to ask: do we really need all these different translations? Or are publishers just trying to cash in (say, by adding a celebrity author)? But on a deeper level, Saint-Exupéry’s style is notoriously hard to replicate, and so perhaps a worthy translation requires more than good French.

Morpurgo’s version certainly suggests so, a few strange decisions aside. As with his own work, there is a clarity and directness, an affinity with the animal world, all underlined by emotional force. If war was more present in the story – the world in which Saint-Exupéry wrote it, after all, and a theme in Morpurgo’s work – you could almost imagine Morpurgo having written it himself.

Then again, as Morpurgo notes, there is something incontrovertibly French about The Little Prince , even as it appeals across the world. Saint-Exupéry isn’t afraid of suggesting an inherent sadness in the world, or of pointing to the meaningless lives so many lead. “People never have the time to understand anything that is worthwhile,” a fox laments. “They buy everything ready made in the shops. That’s why people don’t have friends, because they can’t buy friends in the shops.” The story’s wisdom on loneliness – in cities crowded with people – and consumerism – in a world replete with natural joys – remains as resonant as ever. Morpurgo’s translation reminds us why.

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In this paper, I focus on two child- prince characters, Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and Antoine de St. Exupery’s The Little Prince, who contest the definition of happiness by drawing a sharp contrast between the respective ways grown-ups and children view the world. Both texts, by including child and animal characters, challenge adults’ continuous pursuit for unachievable happiness and suggest paying attention to simple actions, moments and cherished relationships. In order to recast this definition, I draw upon Aristotle’s approach to eudemonia as long-term flourishing rather than fleeting pleasure, and will pay particular attention to his thoughts on friendship and altruistic friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics. The Little Prince and The Happy Prince confirm Lauren Berlant’s thesis in which she says that something you desire is an obstacle to your flourishing. Like Nathaniel Hawthorne and some new age positive psychologists, St Exupery and Wilde propose that it is not necessary to get onto the hedonic treadmill; instead, ‘Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you’ (Hawthorne). Therefore, it is interesting to note how recent research in positive psychology and the happiness system contributes to Children’s Literature criticism.

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This research paper investigates how Antoine de Saint-Exupery in The Little Prince relates autobiographical elements with fictional ones and the significance of such narrative to deal with trauma. Saint-Exupery in this novella recounts his early days and his youthful days as a pilot but the story is not all about him. The narrative not only recounts what he experienced as a child and as an adult but also brings the fictional little prince into the center of this narrative. It is through the eyes of the little prince, that the narrator makes sense of the alien world and also his own. The writer had undergone childhood repressions and also traumatic experiences in the Second World War and his writing is examined as an attempt to come to the terms with these traumas. This paper draws primarily from the ideas of 'Scriptotherapy' from Suzette A. Henke and terminologies to discuss them from trauma theorists such as Cathy Caruth and Dominick LaCapra as well as from life writings, particularly those that focus on the relation between autobiographical and fictional and the importance of performative aspect of writing. Paul de Man's insight from " Autobiography as Defacement " supports the argument regarding the construction of fictional self. Finally, the paper takes into consideration the therapeutic effect of fictionalizing self redrawing from Henke's suggestions.

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ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to find out major symbols in The Little Prince novel. It has been known that symbol is part of literary work like poems, songs, paintings, dramas; narratives which have messages that are indirectly delivered by symbols. The writer also compared the denotative meaning of each symbol with its symbolic meaning to make people understand that the symbols used have different meaning with its real meaning. The method used in this study is qualitative method because this method is suitable to examine the symbols used in the novel. From the research that has been done, the writer found that in The Little Prince novel there are some symbols that build the story into one and have great impact from the beginning until the end of the story. The writer found five major symbols in the story there are Desert, Stars, Baobab, Water, and Rose. These five major symbols are related one another in the story and make the story more fascinating.

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Gorgeous classic about friendship, love, and life.

A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this book.

As a fable, The Little Prince offers intriguing pr

Appearances can be deceiving -- you need to probe

The Little Prince is kind, loyal, and curious. He&

The pilot has crashed in the desert and is worried

The prince visits a man who drinks to forget his s

Educational Value

As a fable, The Little Prince offers intriguing prompts for philosophical discussion about love, friendship, and life.

Positive Messages

Appearances can be deceiving -- you need to probe beneath the surface to get to the heart of things. Open-minded curiosity can lead to deep knowledge and emotional growth. Being narrow-minded and judgmental leaves you isolated and with a limited understanding of yourself and the world. Loving relationships require responsibility and faith, and it takes effort and risk to forge a close bond with another.

Positive Role Models

The Little Prince is kind, loyal, and curious. He's open to other perspectives and adapts to new ideas. He's reflective and able to acknowledge past mistakes. The attentive pilot is considerate and concerned for his new friend.

Violence & Scariness

The pilot has crashed in the desert and is worried about surviving. The prince worries about the safety of his rose. A venomous snake bites the prince.

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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

The prince visits a man who drinks to forget his shame over his drinking.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 's The Little Prince, first published in 1943 , is a classic fable about a stranded pilot's encounter with a young prince who travels from planet to planet in search of knowledge. This gentle book looks like it's a book for children, but it's generally better appreciated and enjoyed by an older audience. The language and themes can sail over the heads of young, casual readers, but there's nothing inappropriate for young readers. The prince allows himself to be bitten by a poisonous snake, which some children might view as suicide even though the author explains that the prince isn't dead. Older versions mention "Negro kings"; modern editions use the phrase "African kings."

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A classic that children can understand better than you think

What's the story.

A pilot crashes in the Sahara desert. While attempting to fix his plane a thousand miles from any habitation, he meets a strangely dressed little boy who seems to have come from nowhere and who demands that he draw a sheep. "When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey," so the pilot attempts to draw a sheep. Gradually the Little Prince reveals his story. He comes from a small asteroid, where he lived alone until a rose grew there. But the rose was demanding, and he was confused by his feelings about her. Eventually he decided to leave and journey to other planets in search of knowledge. After meeting many confusing adults, he eventually landed on Earth, where he befriended a snake and a fox. The fox helped him to understand the rose, and the snake offered to help him return to his planet -- but at a price.

Is It Any Good?

Beloved by generations of readers, this gentle, bittersweet fable can be a hard sell for kids: Poetic language, symbolic scenes, and philosophical discussions make it a better fit for older readers. Nevertheless, curled up with the right adult, kids with the patience can find their introduction to THE LITTLE PRINCE's kindly philosophy one of their most vivid moments of childhood.

You won't go wrong with either the original translation by Katherine Woods or the newer translation by Richard Howard, which features updated language -- both serve Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic story well. Do seek out an edition with Saint-Exupéry's whimsical watercolors, which contribute so much to this book's magical hold over readers. Several editions published in connection with the 2016 animated film feature artwork from the film; the stills are beautiful in their own way but are a departure from Saint-Exupéry's iconic images.

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Book Details

Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Illustrator : Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Genre : Fantasy
Topics : Magic and Fantasy , Adventures , Friendship
Book type : Fiction
Publisher : Harcourt Brace
Publication date : June 1, 1943
Number of pages : 96
Last updated : June 9, 2015

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Themes and Analysis

The little prince, by antoine de saint-exupery.

‘The Little Prince’ is a story with lots of interesting characters. In fact, we learn a lot from every character- how to or how not to behave; what to, and what not to focus on.

About the Book

Article written by Chioma Julie

Degree in M.C.M. Awarded Best Graduating Student in Literature-in-English at UNISEC.

‘ The Little Prince ‘ tells the story of a boy- now a young man, who crashes into a desert, where he meets an interesting personality- the little prince, from whom he learns a great deal.

This work of art contains so many powerful themes. What you will find here are just some of them, the ones flexible enough to accommodate what would otherwise have come as subthemes. Some of them include friendship, finding joy in nature, the beauty in simplicity, amongst others.

Friendship requires a great deal of understanding. It is a major theme in the book. We see this in the fox’s relationship with the little prince. We see it equally, or even more, in the boy’s relationship with the little prince. Creating ties with people comes with consequences and rewards.

Consequences, because people come and go. In the same way, the fox makes the little prince tame him and then becomes sad when the little prince has to go away. Rewards because of the memories. Just like the fox would look at the fields with the golden-colored shrubs, and remember his good friend, the little prince, the same way the little prince, through that friendship, starts to appreciate the little things he has, which in fact, aren’t so little- his beautiful flower which he tamed, and which has become his friend, just like the fox. Indeed, these are incomparable to the other ‘big’ things, because they are his. Big in quotes , because that is very debatable.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The fox, indeed, thought the little prince a great deal.

The Deceptiveness of Adulthood

This is a major theme in the book. The story starts in a funny way, with the book dedicated, not to the adult who wrote it, but to the child who grew into that adult, a plea, presented in a funny way, but nonetheless, a plea. The grown-ups in the book think they know it all, that they know what the matters of consequence are, and what aren’t matters of consequence. Adults are seen as people who are wiser, or who should be, at least, because of the experiences time that age must have made them go through. Alas, the children in the book- the boy and the little prince , are much wiser than the adults, and are the ones who focus on what matters, knowing that the shell is only well… just a shell. At some point, the boy begins to use his two drawings- one, of the boa constrictor from the outside and two, of the boa constrictor from the inside, as the yardstick to ascertain which adult has or lacks understanding. Grown-ups aren’t all that, after all. In fact, they aren’t much, even.

The beauty in simplicity. What you need, is right here, not far away. The grown-ups in the book see simple things as trivialities. But to the children who really understand things and know what matters, the simple things matter as much, if not even more. The shell which the little prince talks about can be seen as the big thing, the things we see, the conspicuous things. But, what about what’s on the inside? The little prince learns a great deal from the fox. He learns simplicity and learns that what matters is not quantity, and that- that something has so many others that look like it physically, doesn’t mean much. What matters is what you have, being yours, being unique- to you, and that is simple. Simplicity in its purest form. Simplicity is seeing the boa constrictor as a boa constrictor, not some hat. Simplicity is knowing that the boa constrictors matter as much as golf does. Simplicity is choosing to reject the pill that prevents people from going thirsty, only to look foolish in the end, because, why would someone take the pill, and then end up spending the time saved, by the freshwater spring?

Curiosity and Proactiveness

Start early to nip potentially problematic things in the board before they become uncontrollable, just like one would, the baobabs. As the curtains are about to draw to a close, the boy continues to express his worries, which usually come in waves- that perhaps, the sheep finally ate the flower. Most times, worrying is unnecessary as it changes nothing. However, a little of it can help keep people on their toes. The boy is a tad bit on the high side, but curiosity does not always kill the cat. In fact, even if we are to run with that, satisfaction would most likely bring it back.

We see proactiveness and curiosity in the little prince. The first thing he asks the boy is to draw him a sheep. Then he remembers his flower and asks to know if sheep eat flowers- curiosity. He then goes on to make the boy draw something to protect his flowers, a muzzle. He also intends to remove the baobabs before they sprout and become uncontrollable. Proactiveness and curiosity help the little prince to achieve a lot, and this rubs off on the boy.

Finding joy in nature. The little prince finds joy in watching the sunset. Do not wait to be happy; just be, live in the moment, and enjoy the moment. It is amazing that something as beautiful as a flower would have thorns. The thorns are for protection. Nature is indeed fascinating to observe. You cannot play the role of an enemy to nature and have it easy. That simply complicates things. Nature and everything that is of it and in it- the vegetation, the waters, the stars, the imaginary sheep, the fox, the snake, the flowers, the beings, all in the story extend to all of us. Nature is refreshing. In the novel, children are more in tune with nature, more positively curious, and are the ones who know what they want, not the grown-ups who don’t even know why they are going where they are heading to; that is why they- the children- understand.

Pride in what you have. Contentment. Aim high, but appreciate the one(s) you have, while doing so. Contentment and ambition, or a healthy desire to achieve or acquire more, can coexist. This is a major lesson the little prince learns from the fox. When the little prince sees that his flower, his beautiful flower, unlike what he thought, has thousands more that look like her physically, it saddens him. Now he thinks his flower isn’t unique after all. He climbs the mountains with shafts. This makes him remember his three volcanoes, one of which is probably dead, or well on its way to dying. This saddens him. The fox makes him snap out of that sour mood, by reminding him that what is on the inside matters, and that what is his, is his, unique- to him, no matter how little they appear to be. What we think are the big things, the grande things, are not really all that, after all. The little prince becomes proud of his possessions, once again.

Writing Style and Tone in The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry makes use of simple sentence structure while crafting this piece. He writes in English of the modern times. Also, the vocabulary is quite simple, and one well-footed in the English Language, need not turn to the dictionary so many times, as that might become a complete turn-off. Simplicity in language is a key ingredient in communication. The author does well to key into that.

The tone used in ‘ The Little Prince ’ is conversational and friendly. It almost feels like one knows the narrator personally, from somewhere else, other than the book. The writer tells the story in such a way that the reader lives, not outside, but within the book, while reading. It makes the reader more empathetic, the tone. The author also employs a simple structure, generally- he uses simple paragraphing, with most chapters out of the 27, succinct. He also makes use of illustrations- drawings- to go just beyond telling the reader, to show the reader how good or not, an artist, the boy is.

Analysis of Symbols and Figurative Language in The Little Prince

The story of ‘ The Little Prince ’ is a book filled with lots of figurative expressions. In the book, there is also a significant number of things with much deeper meanings than they literally appear to have. Also, personification and irony as figures of speech are very dominant in the book. First, we will focus on the analysis of symbols, and then we will talk about figurative language in ‘ The Little Prince .’

Analysis of Symbols

Here, we will take a look at a few things from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ‘ The Little Prince ’ and their underlying meanings.

The Box Containing the Sheep

This goes beyond just a box (believed to have a sheep in it). This signifies the power of choice. One can be anything one wants to be as long as one is living well within one’s own rights. In terms of money, it is the equivalent of giving someone a blank cheque. That box- that power of choice, though it is more of a cage for the sheep than it is liberty, gives the little prince the freedom to choose how he would want his sheep to look. The power of choice cannot be overemphasized. It is the type of power that makes non-existent, what would have been a problem, and makes the already existing problem fizzle out.

The Baobabs

A symbol of trouble and is, therefore, better handled before it escalates. See anything that brings problems as the baobabs. That way, you weed them out before they sprout and become uncontrollable. Ignorance and vanity are baobabs, and the large bulk of the responsibility lies with the people around those plagued by this to help them out. For sometimes, sick people do not even know that they are sick. Potential troubles are to be nipped in the board before they escalate, bloom, blow up, or become much more difficult to control, the same with baobabs.

The Beautiful Flower with Four Thorns

A symbol of delicateness. How the little prince handles it shows how delicate it is. The beautiful flower symbolizes our love for anything at all. When one loves something, it shows in how that thing is tended to by them.

The outer part. The shell symbolizes what we can see, the obvious or conspicuous things. Size, quantity- basically, physicality, even outer beauty are all shells. And as much as shells may matter, they do not matter more than what is on the inside- the inner being, the inner beauty or the lack thereof, the appearance within, the heart, and the thought. In fact, the latter should matter more- that is, to the ones who try to know, to tame, and to understand.

The stars symbolize a beacon of hope. The star is good, and good is the star. We can make our joyful memories stars, so that when we look up at the sky we smile again and again, we laugh, even. No, that is not crazy. And, stars can be found anywhere, not just in the sky.

Figurative Language

We will focus on the two figures of speech dominant in the book (irony and personification)- in action or words or both.

It is ironic that the adults who are thought to be wise aren’t as sensible after all.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

The little chap’s words.

It is also ironic that the king, who believes he is lord over all things- living and nonliving- has to wait for a favorable time to show the prince the sunset. That is beyond his control, and in fact, he isn’t lord over much as his lordship barely extends outside of him, the king hungry for a subject.

It is ironic that people would take pills to make them not become thirsty for a while, a week maybe, and then spend the minutes saved by a spring of fresh water.

“It is very tedious work, but very easy,” says the little prince about removing the baobabs when they are still small, making sure you don’t mistake them for the rose bushes. How can something be tedious and easy at the same time? This could very easily be mistaken for an oxymoron. But it is an irony.

Personification

Referring to a flower as she/her in Chapter 8.

She did not wish to go out into the world all rumpled, like the field poppies. It was only in the full radiance of her beauty that she wished to appear. Oh, yes! She was a coquettish creature! And her mysterious adornment lasted for days and days.

The little prince also converses with the proud flower as if it were a person. “Oh! How beautiful you are!” “Am I not?” the flower responded, sweetly. “And I was born at the same moment as the sun,” added the flower. The fox is also personified in Chapter 21.

What major lesson do we learn from The Little Prince ?

We can learn many lessons from ‘ The Little Prince ,’ but summarised- we should get our priorities right, stop focusing so much on the shell, and the aesthetics, and start focusing more on the heart, what’s on the inside. Why? Because what is on the inside would almost always matter more than what is on the outside. When the shell disappears, what is left? That is what matters.

What is the biggest realization from The Little Prince ?

The biggest realization from ‘ The Little Prince ‘ is that oftentimes, children are more in tune with what should actually matter than grown-ups are. A good example is the scene at the train station. All the children seemed to know where they are going and what they are going there to do. But, the grown-ups appear to be totally disconnected from reality and out of tune with nature.

What is the central theme of The Little Prince ?

It’s not quite easy to choose, but summarised, ‘ The Little Prince ‘ teaches us about friendship – how friends are loved, and how we ought to prioritize them because we are meant to prioritize what we love. Friendship is the central theme. Though all connected, other notable themes are proactiveness, curiosity, pride in what is yours, and so on.

How are baobabs used in The Little Prince ?

The baobabs are used to symbolize potentially troubling things that should be controlled before they become uncontrollable. The baobabs represent danger. When they are small, they represent potentially dangerous things. When they sprout or matter, they represent, not danger that is about to come, but one that is already here. Then, things got out of hand and would become difficult to control.

What does the shell symbolize?

The shell symbolizes the aesthetics, the outer part, the part we can see and quantify or place a value on. In the book, the fox makes the little prince realize that beauty lies in what is on the inside much more than it does in what is on the outside. When the shell is gone, what is left? What is left is important, because it is what matters.

What is the most ironic thing in the book?

The most ironic thing in the book is that adults, the very ones who are expected to know better because of… well, a wealth of experiences (or the impression that those exist), are the ones with their list of priorities upside down. A good example of irony in the book is grown-ups downing pills to save them some time by ‘preventing’ them from getting thirsty, only to wish to spend that time by a freshwater spring. Things couldn’t get more ironic than this.

What do the baobabs symbolise?

The baobabs symbolize trouble- potentially dangerous things that should be nipped in the board before they sprout and cause havoc. The baobabs, when they just begin to develop, scream ‘danger,’ symbolizing things that should be dealt with or handled before they become uncontrollable. Procrastination would mean disaster.

How was the fox personified in The Little Prince ?

A fox could communicate in a human language. A fox cannot hold a conversation with a person. That is as far as personification can go. We learn a lot from the personified horse. It is from this fox that the little prince learns to love all he has, no matter how little he thinks them to be. It is also from the fox that the little prince learns the value of friendship above all, and that what lies within would almost always be greater than what lies without.

About Chioma Julie

Chioma is a graduate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She has a passion for music, movies, and books. Occasionally, she writes to unwind.

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