The Little Prince Summary

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The Little Prince

This is a sad story. The reason is that it is talking about the antithesis of Utopia which cannot be realized in every individual. In brief, it talks about the journey of the little prince travelling the seven different planets, and use his “childish perspective” to leave a comment in planets he visited. Maybe you can interpret his whole journey as the process of life. We start as a child, and we are ignorant of the place we are living. Afterward, we begin the progress of growing, and those people the little prince had visited; somehow we will meet them in our life likewise. But the difference is, those people will change our life, purpose and our values which against our original thought, whereas the little prince can uphold
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Before we keep moving on, we must know about the biography of the writer. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry who wrote The Little Prince was a successful commercial pilot. According to his biography, he crashed his plane in the Sahara desert, and he stuck in there because the engine had broken. He had to survive in such horrible environment when he was deficient in water. Fortunately, he was rescued. Five years later, the broke out of World War two, he joined the French Air Force. Within that period of time, he wrote The Little Prince

As the result, we cannot rule out there might be having some connection between the cruel life he had experienced and the reason of why he wrote this book. We all know that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born on the chaos timeline in history. It was not easy to live and life didn’t be perceived as valuable as nowadays. So that, we can imagine that the writer was writing this to express his discontent to the
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He lives in pressure, plain and loneliness from infancy. The world was chaos, his life was chaos. During the war, writing this book may be the only way can help him retrieve a tiny relaxation and enjoyment for his own, because the little prince might be representing his childhood, who tried to haven himself in the story. At the story, the little prince brings him a lot of questions which baffled the writer a lot when he was repairing the plane. Somehow, the little prince eventually got the attention of the writer and help him calm down and made him feel warmth again. Behind my assumption, there is a manifest evidence to uphold this assumption, you can find out a selfsame thing between his personal experience and a scenario in the story, a plane crashing. Do you remember the writer had a period of time that was struggling to survive in the Sahara desert before he joins the French Air Force? Why there is a coincidence that the story also starts at the plane crashing accidence? The Little Prince is obviously not a fiction but a biography, he reveals his hidden worldview throughout the journey of the little prince and their interactions and decorate the content with a childhood perspective to make his censure seem more

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