The Little Prince Book Review

Book Review English Assignment
Name: Liew Yung Xian Edward
Class : ENL 1212
Subject : English Language Skill 2
Lecturer ’s Name: Mr. Aaron Donchin

Introduction:
Book Tittle : The Little Prince
About the Author : Antoine de saint Exupery was born on 29th June, 1900 in Marseille, France. His father died in 1904 due to a stroke, thus his mother moved with her children to Le Mans in 1909. He spent his childhood years at the castle of Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens, surrounded by sisters, aunts, cousins and nurses. He acquired his early education at Jesuit schools in Montgré and Le Mans, and a Catholic boarding school in Switzerland (1915-1917). Much to his dismay, he failed his final examination at a university preparatory school, so he enrolled himself

One day, the author reminisces, when his plane was forced down in the Sahara, a thousand miles from help, he encountered a most extraordinary small person. “If you please,” said the stranger, “draw me a sheep.” And thus begins the remarkable history of the Little Prince. The Little Prince lived alone on a tiny planet no larger than a house. He owned three volcanoes, two active and one extinct. He also owned a flower, unlike any other flower in all the galaxy, of great beauty and of inordinate pride. It was this pride that ruined the serenity of the Little Prince’s world and started him on the interplanetary travel that brought him to Earth, where he learned, finally, from a fox, the secret of what is really important in life. There are a few stories that in some way, in some degree, change the world forever for their reader .This is one.
“A lovely story…….. which cover a poetic, yearning philosophy not the sort of fable that can be tacked down neatly at its four corners but rather reflections on what are real matters of consequence.”

Qualities and

It give readers and insight of basic human character through the journey of the little prince .There are six character when the little prince started his journey when the little prince meet the king in the first planet the king that is represent Pride , so the little prince continue to the second planet and meet the conceited man that represent conceited, funny , the journey continue to the third planet and meet the tippler that the tippler represent the Gluttony. The little prince go to the fourth planet and meet the business man the business man represent Greed, Lust .When the little prince go on the fifth planet he meet the lamplighter represent laziness and wrath next the little prince go on to the last planet and meet the geographer Envy and pride . The theme of the story is quite interesting that in this story involve the trust between a man and the little prince as their journey begins the man start to understand a little about the little prince. As the stories continue the venue changes the little prince and the man meet many other kind of people in many other neighbor