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Antoine De Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince

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The little price; a wonderful and charming story of a young boy that goes through an incredible adventure to learn new things and explore. The story has many different characters; there is the price, the rose, the pilot, the king, the conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter, a geographer, a merchant, a switchman and a snake. The main characters is the prince and the pilot meanwhile the other characters where the king, the businessman, the conceited man, the tippler, the lamplighter, and the geographer were quiet odd for the prince who found them in different planets with all very different sizes. Meanwhile the snake, the merchant, the switchman, and the fox were from Earth. The prince still thought that those grown ups (excluding …show more content…

This mostly has to do with the fact that he was a pilot and also the fact that he had a younger blond brother who had died of rheumatic fever in Switzerland in WWI. He attended to his brother, his closest confidant, beside his brother’s deathbed, and later wrote that his brother ‘...remained motionless for an instant. He did not cry out. He fell as gently as a tree …show more content…

The next day the body disappeared and two companions found the man glad he was still alive. This story has many meanings and symbols in it, one of them would be the businessman for example would be used as a symbol of the need of possession and greed of the human. Meanwhile the rose would be used as a symbol for vanity and pride; also the snake would also be a symbol of a judge because he said he would not kill the prince for he was innocent. The lamplighter would also be a symbol of work and responsibility because even though he wanted to sleep he would still light the lamp when it was night and turned it off when it was day. There is also the prince who would be a symbol for youth and innocence while the pilot is the symbol for curiosity and fraternity. At the end the Little Prince is a wonderful and charming story that people of all ages can enjoy and are able to learn many thing from it. And also how adventurous life can be with just letting go of what we need to let go of. Also it can show you how with just a few days you can love and care for someone by just listening a little more and understanding with your heart and

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