The Little Prince
Once when I was six years old, I saw a magnificent picture in a book,called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.
In the book it said:_ Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion._
I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in ma-ki-ng my first drowing,My Drawing Number.
Despite I've not in my childhood yet, I still prefer reading fairy-tale stories. The tales, which accompany with me in my old days, often make me think of some precious experience and sensation which only belong to children. This summer I've review this kind of tale, which was published in 1940. It's the world-famous fairy-tale by the French author, Antoine de St-Exupery, The Le Petit Prince.
As many other fairy-tales, the outline of The Le Petit Prince is not very complex. “I”, the narrator of the story, is a pilot whose plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara. In this occasion, the pilot makes the acquaintance of the Le Petit Prince, a little boy from another planet, the Asteroid B612. The Le Petit Prince has escaped from his tiny planet, because he has some quarrel with a rose, which grows on his planet. In that case he left his own planet and took an exploration at some neighbor asteroids.
On his all-alone journey, the Le Petit Prince meets different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer. From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd. Following the instruction of the geographer, he descends in the Sahara, on the earth.
Traveling on the earth, the Le Petit Prince, who sees a garden of five-thousand roses, is overcome with astonishment and sadness, as he considers his rose is unique in the universe before.
At that time a fox appears. The fox, who tell the Le Petit Prince about the meaning of the word “tame”, becomes his new friend. At the time to say farewell, the fox makes him know that his rose is unique because she is his rose and tamed by him. From that the Le Petit Prince begins to treasure friendship and be responsible to his rose.
At the anniversary day of his descent of the earth, rejecting the pilot's advice, he goes back to his own planet by bite of a snake. “It's too far. I can not carry this body with me. It's too heavy.” he said. He tells his friend, the pilot, he must be responsible for his rose, so he has to go back. At the end the author doesn't tell us the ending directly. Maybe it's more significant for us to imagine, and for more, think over.
One of the important characters is the rose. Growing on the planet, she is very beautiful, but her coquetry and vanity suffer the Le Petit Prince a lot. In spite of they love each other, he soon becomes unhappy. On the time of his departure, he just knows she certainly loves him.
The character of the Le Petit Prince actually represents the children, and their native thoughts and deeds. On the contrary, the inhabitants on the other planets, such as the king, the businessman and the conceited man, they also reflect the defects in the grown-up's world. The real theme of this fairy-tale with a little sadness, I guess, is the consequence of pure love and friendship in our lives, but not others “matters of consequence” of the grown-ups.
Unbelievable, this little book moved me a lot. I seldom think about the true meaning of love and life before. Well, now I can say, with my short sixteen-year's life experience, it's like the stars in the sky that lit my heart. The Le Petit Prince is not only an ordinary fairy-tale for children, but also for grown-ups, and our teenagers. Nevertheless, when I read this book, I feel a little sad – about ourselves, whom are losing more and more innocence.
I’ve been wondering where one’s childlike purity has gone when he or she grows up. To find the answer, I read The Little Prince, which is a fairy tale for adult and fable about life, written by Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
The story of The Little Prince is about a prince from an asteroid named B-612, which is a fairly small one, with three volcanoes and a rose on it. The prince spent his days caring for his _planet_, sweeping the volcanoes and pulling out the baobab trees that would make his little planet turn to dust if they were not removed. However, he was lonely. He watched the sunset every time he was down. He had seen the sunset forty-three times in a day, for endless loneliness and sadness filled up his heart. Fortunately, a beautiful rose enriched his life. She loved the distressed prince, while the prince loved her sincerely as well. Unluckily, the sensitive prince once doubted about love due to the rose’s anger, and he left his rose as well as his planet to start his lonely journey.
After visiting six other asteroids, he came to the earth. He met a fox and tamed it. It was the fox who taught the prince that his rose was in a class by herself. The prince began to realized that he was tamed by his rose, he responsible for her. As a result, he was eager to see his rose again, but he found himself unable to leave the earth. Finally, the prince chose to go back to his asteroid with the snake’s bite, though he felt afraid of pains.
Every time I read The Little Prince, I am moved by the prince’s attitude toward the world. It is his attitude that brings my sincerity and innocence back. Because of the story of the little prince, I have learnt to live a peaceful life with hope, gentleness, touching, and responsibility about tameness in my heart.
The fox said to the little prince, _I tell you the secret, it is very simple: only the heart can see. What is essential is invisible to the naked eye.
The beauty of many things, the heart can see the essence.
A picture of a boa constrictor, a _unique_ feeling of being domesticated, a laughing star, a well of singing Wells... It is the complexity of the world that makes simplicity and simplicity a luxury, the simplest of all, as if only the unworldly child would know.
It is a naive fairy tale for children and a sentimental novel for adults.
A little prince from B612 was going on a trip, and he wept, and he did all the preparations before his departure, on the little planet of one man, one rose, and three volcanoes.
Recently, I read a fairy story book, Little Prince. This book tells the adventurous experiences of little prince from his planet to the earth. Little prince comes from the outer space and he is hurt by a rose. So he leaves there and travels into space.
He comes to the earth and be the friend of a fox. The fox tells his secret to little prince and he helps a pilot in the desert. In the end, he dies under the help of a snake and his soul goes back to his planet. This book is very interesting and teaches me a lot. I like little price adventures. He teaches me to be honest and love others. All of us should never loss the pureness of childhood.
_Young Prince_ narrates is lonely, the sad child's story, he lives on young star. One day, he left the star which he lives, starts to travel. He passed through various star, afterwards, he arrived the Earth, finally, he returned to his star.
In the travel, the young prince saw the of all forms person in the society confused:King, loves the vanity person.
The drunkard, for put behind ashamed industrialist, only likes calculating the astronomy number type money.
Their only common ground, in the heart fills the vanity.
In the travel, the young prince discovered that, the people are the places which always does not will satisfy oneself lives, they are pursuing happiness with hardship, but actually expels from the side.
He and the author met one another in the desert, they gradually have become the friend. Seeks naive which loses to that, with move.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery contains a fairy tale which concludes plentiful first thing we can learn from the book is the innocence of childhood and disappointed by what his roses said,the little prince still loved the weiter’s opinion ,the roses stand for the pure love.
As the prince growed up,he made a decision to explore other planets and leave his hometown,a planet which just one person lived travelling in the other planets,he discovered that his rose is not the only one of its are abandunt kinds of roses in the garden,but he still held the opinoion that his rose is special _because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen_ .
When he came to the earth ,another significant character ,the fox , teached the little prince to take his own responsibility bravely . What’s more ,the fox is also the little prince’s best friend and help with his understanding of the meaning of friendship.
All the story is told by a piolet ,who is another hero in the tale and met the little prince in the Sahara .At the end of the story ,the little prince died on the Earth with the piolet.
The writer made the story from the child’s the
prince said is what the writer wanted to theme of the story is to criticize the human beings’ a alien, the little prince could see the human beings’ disadvantages clearly. In my opinion ,The Little Prince is more than a funny book written for the is a kind of profound reflection of finishing reading the book can form his thought in his mind. Therefore,I’m sure it is worthwhile to spend some time reading the book calmly.
