the Little Prince – A Tale of Love and Life Title: the Little Prince Author: Antoine de St-Exupery Main Characters: the little prince, the pilot, the rose, the fox, the snake, etc. 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 Little Prince. As many other fairy-tales, the outline of The Little 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 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 earth. Traveling on the earth, the little 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 little 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 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.
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。
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 pliments 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 author satirized 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 acpanied me during my childhood now bee 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 story of the little prince, is sad, a pain of love. Love was serious and sincere, cut bone pain and unbearable.
The little prince's love, pure and elegant, sincere seriously. If the dead could make him back to his own the stars, if death can let him meet with the person I love, he will choose to die, threw because he is deeply in love with her, because his heart was tamed by rose. He did the same, he gently down, and as he came to earth is unknown.
Thoreau said, people live a life of quiet desperation, he is far away from the crowd, the sun go down to find the root of all decadent, nothing, this is a dusty heaven. Fortunately our hearts there is a story of the little prince, sad but beautiful, little prince sorrow for the pure love; Good, because of love to give a person touched and hope.
Because the story of the little prince, when we are in a quiet life, in the heart has a hope and tenderness, have touched and about domestic responsibilities.
《小王子》的故事是哀伤的，一个关于爱情的伤痛。爱得认真并且真诚，痛得切骨而且难以忍受。
小王子的爱情，纯净淡雅，诚恳认真。如果死能够使他回到自己的星星上，如果死能够让他和所爱的人相会，他会义无返顾地选择死去，因为他深沉地爱着她，因为他的心被玫瑰所驯服。他也是这么做的，他轻轻地倒下，正如他无人知晓地来到地球。
梭罗说，人在过着静静的绝望的生活，他是远离人群的，阳光下去找寻一切颓废的根源，一无所获，这是一个落满灰尘的天堂。有幸的是我们的心中还有一个关于小王子的故事，忧伤但美好，小王子的忧伤是因单纯的爱恋;美好，是因为爱恋给人的感动和希望。
因为小王子的故事，我们在静静的生活时，心里有着希望和温存，有着感动和关于驯养的责任 。
_The little prince,_ the fairy tale, is most impressed by _it is a children's book for adults_ and _contains a whole set of philosophical thoughts in his poetic touch._ This fairy tale for adults contains symbolic benefits that seem to be both clear and subtle, and therefore exceptionally beautiful. I don't understand why this reading rate is second only to that of the bible. So I have this book in my hand.
At the beginning of the book, the unimaginative grown-ups were satirized, _these adults never take the initiative to learn anything; And for our kids, it's always been a lot of explaining to them... _So I won't talk to him about pythons, primeval forests, or stars. I only talk about things they can understand, such as bridge, golf, politics, ties and so on. In this way, the person will be very happy, and a person who has met a reasonable understanding. And the children said to the adults, _I see a beautiful house, which is made of rose brick, with a geranium in the window and white doves on the roof._ They had to be unable to imagine the house. You have to say, _I saw a house worth twenty thousand dollars._ They would have to say, _that house is so beautiful._ Saint-exupery may be felt lonely in adults, and then through the eyes of the little prince to find adults much ado about nothing, in order to possess wealth, power for money such as learning to forget the self, the true value of life really lost the most precious childlike innocence and innocence, lost valuable imagination and aesthetic feeling.
The Little Prince, the pilot, the rose, the fox, the snake, etc.
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 Little Prince.
As many other fairy-tales, the outline of The Little 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 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 earth.
Traveling on the earth, the little 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 little 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 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 becomes 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.
I don’t remember the exact year I first read The Little Prince . Though the golden snake in the book plays a cameo role , I never forget the scene that he flashed kissed gently on the little prince’s ankle. It made me be afraid to reread this book.
Later, I listened a Michael Wong’s song named Fairy-tale Story, the prince in his song is different from the prince in The Little Prince, the prince in the song is the same as Andersen’s tales’ princes, they all have happy endings.
However, I think The Little Prince is a sad story. There is a saying: There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand peoples eyes. Now, let me talk about my reading feeling. This simple story flies over every corner of the world: a pilot (the narrator) who had an accident with his plane and crashed in the Desert of Sahara then he met the little prince from the planet B-612, and the narrator listened little prince’s travel experience of seven planets. On the seven planets, he met a variety of persons. They are the king, the conceited man, the businessman, the tippler, the lamplighter, the geographer and so on.
The Little Prince is a story belongs to adults who have childlike children don’t understand the little prince’s deep is not so much a fairy tale, as it is a tragedy. This story tells the grow-ups’ world is full of empty，lost and loneliness with kids’ perspective. Among the story, the alcoholic is impressive. He was surrounded by a pile of beer bottles when the little prince saw him, and prince asked him why he is drinking, but he answered he want to forget his shame of drinking. This short planet visit plunged little prince into deep puzzled. He think the grow-ups are certainly very, very odd. In kids eyes, beautiful things must look with heart. But the adults pay more attention on things’ appearance that is just a shell and they don’t believe the eyes are blind and the heart is true.
Through this story, it also made me understand what’s the love---loves more mineral, more dense, more bitter and more weighty than the earths profoundest matter.
When I first read The Little Prince, I can’t understand the mean of love and never to think why should the little prince leave alone since he love his rose so deeply. For years, I reread the story and think about it. The simple true was first love. The little prince didn’t know how to love and It was difficult to make him understand the rose’s heart, so it may lead to misunderstanding and hurts from time to time. He leaved his planet because he can not accept the rose and himself.
This is why the little prince don’t know he have to leave : at that time, he had no idea he was in it. The little prince don’t understand the meaning of tame until he met the fox later. Then he produced the endless yearning for the roses and realized his responsibility.
_Do you want to be domesticated?_ For me, this is a profound question. In the book, the little prince met a fox and invited the fox to play with him, but he was refused. The fox told him that he was not tamed. “what does that mean--tame?” little prince asked. The fox answered:” it means to establish ties: to me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me , you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.”
Gradually the little prince was beginning to understand, because he remembered his rose and he thought his rose had tamed him. So he chose to go back to his planet in the end. But to the fox, the little prince’s farewell will make her sad, but the hurts because of love, she should learn to accept it gradually. I believe there are full of hurts within serious and true love.
As long as the little prince flied to different planets and met a variety of persons can he understand himself andhis rose. So I think traveling is a good way to experience life.
Aristotle used to say that _people begin to explore in the ages, and they should have their origins in the wonder of the natural world_. People have to discover the world through exploration to live a better life, just like the little prince.
In this world there is always a lot of new, have a plenty of you don't have the chance to meet, have a plenty of you never dare to imagine, and everyone should have the courage to find new and a heart of curiosity and exploration.
Life is only once, plain and light is life, gorgeous and wonderful life. Some people choose to be calm, but there are no big fish in the shallow water. If you want to live a wonderful life, you must try to explore and find out. Read the little prince, let me know how to live, let I to life is full of confidence, the benefit of my life, it reminds me of all the time, life is not plain gorgeous brilliant!
