The Little Prince
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
I. Introduction
The Little Prince was first published in 1943. It is a novel and the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer and poet Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The novel is the most read and most translated book in the French language, and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. The Little Prince is also an indictment of the spiritual decay Saint-Exupéry perceived in humanity. Some of the story of The Little Prince uses events taken from Saint-Exupéry’s own life. Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry, born in Lyons, France, in 1900. A laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the U.S. National Book Award. Saint-Exupéry was a successful commercial pilot before World War II, working airmail routes in Europe, Africa and South America. He disappeared over the Mediterranean on his last assigned reconnaissance mission in July 1944, and is believed to have died at that time. II. Body
A. Character Analysis * The Narrator
The Narrator is a lonely pilot who, while stranded in the desert, befriends the little prince. They spend eight days together in the desert before the little prince returns to his home planet. * The Little Prince
The Little Prince is a traveler from outer space whom the narrator encounters in the Sahara desert. The prince’s fear as he prepares to be sent back to his planet by snakebite shows that he is susceptible to the same emotions as the rest of us. Though the prince is sociable and meets a number of characters as he travels, he never stops loving and missing the rose on his home planet. * The Rose
The rose appears only in a couple of chapters, she is crucial to the novel as a whole because her melodramatic, proud nature is what causes the prince to leave his planet and begin his explorations. Although the rose is, for the most part, vain and naïve, the prince still loves her deeply because of the time he has spent
I. Introduction
The Little Prince was first published in 1943. It is a novel and the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer and poet Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The novel is the most read and most translated book in the French language, and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. The Little Prince is also an indictment of the spiritual decay Saint-Exupéry perceived in humanity. Some of the story of The Little Prince uses events taken from Saint-Exupéry’s own life. Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry, born in Lyons, France, in 1900. A laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the U.S. National Book Award. Saint-Exupéry was a successful commercial pilot before World War II, working airmail routes in Europe, Africa and South America. He disappeared over the Mediterranean on his last assigned reconnaissance mission in July 1944, and is believed to have died at that time. II. Body
A. Character Analysis * The Narrator
The Narrator is a lonely pilot who, while stranded in the desert, befriends the little prince. They spend eight days together in the desert before the little prince returns to his home planet. * The Little Prince
The Little Prince is a traveler from outer space whom the narrator encounters in the Sahara desert. The prince’s fear as he prepares to be sent back to his planet by snakebite shows that he is susceptible to the same emotions as the rest of us. Though the prince is sociable and meets a number of characters as he travels, he never stops loving and missing the rose on his home planet. * The Rose
The rose appears only in a couple of chapters, she is crucial to the novel as a whole because her melodramatic, proud nature is what causes the prince to leave his planet and begin his explorations. Although the rose is, for the most part, vain and naïve, the prince still loves her deeply because of the time he has spent