the little princess book antoine de saint exupery

Affably Evil: The snake, for an interpretative value of 'evil,' is extremely polite to the Prince.For you who also love the little prince, and for me, nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, we do not know where, a sheep that we never saw has-yes or no?-eaten a rose.And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!'

Ambiguous Ending: At the end of the book, the Aviator realizes he forgot to add a leather strap to the muzzle he draw for the little prince's sheep, and keeps wondering if that sheep ate or not the rose.

Spending time with the little prince, the narrator realizes that he himself has lost his imagination and childlike joy just as well.

Adults Are Useless: The story begins with the narrator telling us a story of his first attempts at drawing - and why he immediately gave up on it, as a big establishing metaphor on how adults lose their creative minds and imagination when they grow up, instead always wanting and expecting to be 'reasonable and mature', but actually just being self-absorbed to the point of complete ridiculousness.

It was also the favourite book of Hollywood icon James Dean, and he was particularly enamored with the Fox's chapter. Not in any way a Spear Counterpart to A Little Princess, or Tony Ross' Little Princess books for that matter. It also inspired an anime, a 2010 CGI cartoon airing on French TV, and a full-length animated movie in 2015. While the book was written for children, the philosophical content appeals to any adult reader, as during the prince's adventures he encounters analogues of many of the traits of modern humanity, and learns about love and friendship from the plants and animals he meets.Īdaptations have mostly been for the stage, but there's also a 1974 movie musical by Lerner and Loewe (directed by Stanley Donen) and a 1979 Claymation short.

While the Prince talks, the narrator continues to work on his plane. The rest of the story is mostly about the boy (thereafter referred to as the little prince) relating to the narrator his life on an asteroid and his travels from planet to planet in search of the meaning of life.

While trying to fix his plane and expecting to die of thirst within days, he is approached by a young boy who requests that he draw him a sheep. It is the fictional account of a French aviator whose plane crashes in the Sahara desert, a thousand miles from civilization. A worldwide literary classic (it's been translated into 190 languages), The Little Prince ( Le Petit Prince in French) is a 1943 children's book written and illustrated by French aviator and count Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

The little princess book antoine de saint exupery