Analysis

Antoine de Saint Exupéry, born on 29th June 1900, was a pilot, too. So it’s probably that he is the pilot of the story. In the year 1935 he had an emergency landing in the desert of Egypt.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

You have different possibilities to understand what the author wanted to say to us. The child-eyes of the “Little Prince” look forward to the essential part of life. The fox betrays him the secret:” One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” (page 63) Seen in this meaning the story is critical to our soulless society in which only material values are important.

Maybe it’s only a love-story between the “Little Prince” and his Rose. It’s a story about being together and being apart from someone important. So the story tells us about the longing and love.

The third meaning could be that the ”Little Prince” is a story of friendship. The pilot (alias Antoine de Saint Exupéry) and the “Little Prince” are allowed to experience real friendship.

To understand the character of the “Little Prince” was difficult for me. He is a very serious and pure boy, but his decision to return to his planet with the help of a bite of a snake was strange for me.

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