A Report on the Little Prince

The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince), published in 1943, is written by the French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry .It is a novella. Saint-Exupéry wrote it while living in the United States. It has been translated into more than 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies ,making it one of the best selling books ever .【1】 The narrator of the story is a pilot ,who has been stranded in the desert .The whole story comes from the little prince he meets when he is doing his difficult repairs .It is all about the journey the little prince experiences from his own planet to the earth .He comes across different persons and heard many strange ideas (to him ,of course) .He always do not know why people will think like that .The writer uses the view of a child to see the world ,reflecting the hollowness ,aimless and ignorance of human beings ,also the destiny of being lonely and going with the stream .Meanwhile ,the writer shows us his praise of kindness and love. I think the story can be roughly parted into two parts .The journey on other small planet is the first part ．Ｉwas deeply impressed by the six persons on the other six planet .They have their own special values and living ways .Each of them can represent one type of people in our human society .For example ,the King ,is the representative of those who want power and make it the only thing ;the conceited man is the representative of persons who are self-important ;the geographer is a typical serious-minded people .Some familiar expressions appeared in this part .“The grown-ups are very strange ”【2】，“The grown-ups are certainly very odd ”【3】,“The grown-ups are certainly very ,very odd ”【4】, “The grown-ups are certainly altogether extraordinary ”【5】.All the words are from the little prince ,just like a child who do not understand adults’ acts.” Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”【6】How different the