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 making my first drowing,My Drawing Number One. It looked like this:
I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.
But they answered:_Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?_
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor,so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this:
The grown-ups response,this time, was to adviseme to lay aside my drawing of boa constrictors,whether from the inside or the outside and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it si tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes.
I have flown a little over all parts of the world:and it is ture that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night,such knowledge is valuable.
In the course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And hasn't much improved my opinion of them.
Whenever Imet one of them who seemed to me at all clearsighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my Drowing Number One. which I have always kept. I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, whoever it was, he ,or she, would always say:
_That is a hat._
Then I would never talkto that people about boa constrictors, or primeval forest, or stars. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-ups would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.
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.
When I saw the second time, I noticed a sentence in the book, _all adults were children._ I seem to understand that this book is written for us who used to be children. So, I try to read this book from the perspective of the child -- the mind, not the brain.
Then, sure enough, I saw a lot of interesting things. At first reading this book, I feel a little confused. It doesnt seem to know what the author is trying to say. A few times later, I gradually realized that the book was always in a clear line. Thats _taming_ -- building relationships. There is a second thread: its a question of what is important.
Despite I’ve not in my childhood yet， I still prefer reading fairy-tale stories. The tales， which acpany 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 Little Prince.
As many other fairy-tales， the outline of The Little Prince is not very plex. “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 little prince， a little boy from another planet， the Asteroid B612. The little 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 little 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
Traveling on the earth， the little prince， who sees a garden of five-thousand roses， is overe 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 little prince about the meaning of the word “tame”， bees 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 little 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 little prince a lot. In spite of they love each other， he soon bees unhappy. On the time of his departure， he just knows she certainly loves him. The character of the little 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 little 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.
This is a fairytale whose distribution volume is only second to The Bible. It’s been translated to versions of many other languages. And I gather there must be something special, something really great about it. It’s this conviction that drove me to read it at the first beginning. Well, with due respect to the author, I failed to see how this fairytale be worthy of our attention, despite the fact that many readers claimed this book to be designed for adults.
Anyway, as a well-acknowledged book, it must possess unique feature to maintain it’s position. And it’s reputation and popularity will by no means be destroyed by what an unknown man says. I will talk about the main contents of the book, and the inspiration it renders as usual.
This book mainly tells us the experience of a prince from a tiny planet, who traveled to many other planets and finally came to the earth and met the pilot in a desert. The prince and the pilot became good friends, and the pilot gradually got to know the feeling and experience of his friend. Before he came to the earth, little prince had been to other 6 little planets where he made acquaintance with some strange people. The first man he met was a king on a little planet, yet he claimed to be the king of the space and ridiculously justified his unshakable governance over all. The second person was a man of vanity, who enjoyed compliments of any form without considering whether it’s sincere or not. The third person was an alcoholic who tried to forget the fact that he’s addicted to acohol by drinking like a fish. The fourth person was an abosolute money-oriented businessman, who cared nothing but his fortune. Next came the lamp-lighter who performed his duty blindly. The last one was a geographer who knew too much about geography to solve a real problem related to it. These six people each represented one kind of person like us. The authorsatirized people’s conceit, emptiness, fakeness, innocence and blindness through the tone of a child.
I see eye to eye with the author in that the cause of people’s loneliness can be concluded to the negligence of the bonds that connects them. People are supposed to care about each other, cherish what’s really important for them, and be grateful for the happiness that they’ve gained. We all believe knowledge and experience enable us to see clearly and make right judgements all the time. But we may sometimes lose the right to speak straighforwardly, think creatively or love courageously resulting from what we’ve experienced. That why in our middle school textbooks, it’s the little kid that breaks the illusion of the emperor by saying ”but mum, he ain’t were anything”.
When I was a child, I was definitely a good boy who went home on time after school and did his homework and never tried anything without mom’s permission. And now I am a grown-up, and still I am a good man, at least, that’s what I heard. Sometimes when I was lonely and I began to think about my childhood, then all the happiness and care-free life came back to me as it were yesterday. Kids that once accompanied me during my childhood now become fathers and mothers of their kids and I myself am a child no more. Thinking about all these things have made me moody. There’re changes happening in our lives whether we are happy about it or not.
People told me life is a journey which will never stop once it’s started. What’s left behind are happiness and sorrow, pride and shame, success and regret. There’s good old time to reminisce and there’s sad hours that reminds us of the pain. Your feeling makes them real, and you know you lived.
I want to conclude by saying some positive words that each yestersday used to be today, and each today is the future of yesterday, so making the most of today is the best way to cherish your lives. Our mortal beings are doomed to die. It’s not sad, instead, death it’s just a process of our lives. After all, we’ve lived our lives and it’s what we do and how we think that determine who we are.
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 ough 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 e 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 the end of the story ,the little prince died on the Earth with the piolet.
The writer made the story from the child's ally,what 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 yone 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.
I recently read a book called _the little prince,_ which has a beautiful language, an easy-to-understand content and vivid pictures. In the happy reading I learned the truth, the good, the beautiful, learned love and strong.
It was mainly about my love for painting since I was a child, and I wanted to be a painter, but my dream was shattered because of my excellency. I am a flying home now, and once my plane broke down in flight, I was stranded in the desert. Here I met a traveller the little prince, he asked me to give him a lamb, I drew many times also failed to meet his requirements, finally I give he painted a box, say the lamb in the box, he finally satisfied.
Originally the little prince he comes from a small asteroid, because of his and his roses make some contradictions, so left his planet, he traveled all the way, he came to a planet first stop met a king, he let everyone listen to him. On the second planet he met a vain man who liked to be flattered. The third planet was inhabited by a drunkard, who was drunk all day. The fourth planet was inhabited by an industrialist who was preoccupied with his work. The fifth planet was inhabited by a lamplighter, who had a lamp, which always clicked and extinguished, and repeated. The sixth planet lived a geographer, who knew the details of many rivers, oceans, mountains, deserts, and cities, but he had never been there. Finally he came to the seventh planet earth. The earth was the largest planet he had ever seen, inhabited by many people he had seen on other planets. He had seen a snake, a little flower, an echo, a rose garden, a fox, and a man on the road.
Then I drank the last drop of water in the desert, and we were all thirsty, and we searched and found the water. I fixed the plane, and the little prince wanted to go home. He thought of his rose, and we said goodbye.
The end of the story, the author's innocence, the little prince pure lovely image and strong self-confidence, the man and his profound friendship, for the little prince have deeply touched me, let me find my goal in life.
_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.
Today, I finished reading < < the little prince > > the book is short of a fairy and plain language, and hidden behind the truth and wisdom are so little prince, that never answer other people's problems, ask questions without the answer would continue to be asked the little prince, the boy has a gold hair, with an innocent smile of the little prince, that come from another planet, with a melancholy and clear pure eyes of the little prince, help us to understand our world and ourselves.
What to look at the world, with the theory of temporal power, money, and dogma, or use of pure childlike innocence and goodness of human nature, the little prince tells us the busy day and night, we pursue fame and wealth, as we are in a hurry, we care about gain and loss, but we have more and more lonely, more and more lonely, like the article to the wind blow them away, they have no root, live very hard._We become like children, easy happy, satisfied, we use the desire to bury his childhood imagination and pure heart.
今天,我读完了《小王子》着本书很短的一个童话故事。语言朴素又平实，而背后隐含的道理和智慧却如此深刻。小王子，那个永远不回答别人的'问题、自己所问的问题没有答案就会一直问下去的小王子，那个有着金色头发、面带无邪微笑的小王子，那个来自外星球、有着忧郁而明净纯洁眼神的小王子，帮助我们重新认识我们的世界和我们自己。
到底以什么样的眼光来看待世界呢，用世俗的权力、金钱、和理论教条，还是用纯真的童心和善良的人性，小王子告诉了我们答案。我们日夜忙碌，我们追逐名利，我们行色匆匆，我们关心得失，我们却越来越孤独，越来越寂寞，象文中所说得那样“风把他们吹散了，他们没有根，活得很辛苦。”我们很难再像孩子那样容易快乐、容易满足，我们用欲望埋葬了自己孩童时丰富的想象力和单纯的心地。
