Book Review: The Little Prince
Books offer you different experiences if you are willing to spend time rereading it. The very first time I read it, was it 4 years ago? And I did not understand partly, because I was not knowledgeable enough to indulge any classics work at the time. As for now, I find myself hooked up by this Little Prince who is long for his only 4- petal flower protected in a glass dome whilst he has his journey to different planets. I find this book is meaningful. It was written long time ago, and yet it is so appealing to today's condition. How come? Did the world ever change? Did people actually ever change?
This book is highly relatable to our life, isn't it?
This book is published in 1943. Written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, this book remains popular even today. It has sold over a million copies a year. It was also voted as the best French book of the 20th century. It is still, in fact, one of the best selling books of ALL TIME (mind the caps lock, please). You really don't have any reason not to read this masterpiece, do you?
Here is one of my favorite quotes:
This book is published in 1943. Written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, this book remains popular even today. It has sold over a million copies a year. It was also voted as the best French book of the 20th century. It is still, in fact, one of the best selling books of ALL TIME (mind the caps lock, please). You really don't have any reason not to read this masterpiece, do you?
Here is one of my favorite quotes:
Then you shall judge yourself, the king answered. That is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
And I was like... 'wow... that is deep!' We also know it is hard to examine our own characters or our own actions without being biased in some way. At a few beginning pages of this book also tell about innocence of how the little kid version of the narrator has been given up by adults by misinterpreting the two drawings that he made.
This book comes with a lot of pretty lines. It is quite hard to summarize. Well, I did my best. I intended to not showing you any spoiler, but I feel like I have to. Toddlers nowadays are read this book by their parents, so this is the right time for you to also do so. Anyway, there is always the feeling after reading such beautiful work... I have always felt like spreading it out so people would also read this book. Despite of its age, the content is highly relatable to the days we have now. So, it is naught for you to worry about.
In a nutshell, it is a beautiful book which tells about friendship between a stranded pilot with the Little Prince he found after landed his plane in the Sahara, far away from all human habitation. This Little Prince is visiting from another planet. The two then immediately hit it off. They become good friends over the course of a week. At this point I feel so relatable. There is always that short time of event where it lasts forever. The memories and people.
This pilot plays the narrator who is disappointed with the world of adults. He has reasons, although he is also an adult. Adults in his eyes lack of imagination. Instead, they keep making wrong choices and priorities. They are trapped in routines and wasting each second provided in their life with it. The pilot knows best since he is also lonely and pretty much has led a miserable life. After that the little prince comes in. He meets this pilot whose plane needs to be fixed after stranded out in the desert.
The little prince lives on an asteroid named B-612, which is as big as a house. There are three tiny volcanoes that come up to his knees on it: two are active, and he uses them to warm his breakfast; one is extinct, and he uses it as a footstool. And most importantly, on his planet is a flower whom he loves. Then he starts telling the narrator about this ill-tempered-yet-vain flower, and her all-round bad behavior which drives the prince away. So this Little Prince plans to explore around where he lives. But on the day of his departure, this flower admits that she loves him. She also regrets that she never expressed it before. In any case, the prince has decided to leave, so leave he does, though the whole situation has the feeling of bad break up. It can be seen from the way this little guy keeps thinking about her all the time.
On his journey, the prince visits several tiny asteroids/ planets inhabited by all sorts of strange characters namely a king, a conceited man, a merchant, and so on. They are selfish and petty. They also successfully convince the little prince that adults are weird. Finally, he makes his way to Earth. Before meeting this pilot, the little prince meets a wise fox. It teaches him about trust and friendship. The prince then realizes that he actually longs for his flower. Her uniqueness makes their relationship is worth keeping.
When he meets the narrator, the prince recounts his adventures to him. The narrator also gets to share in the truths on life and love that the little guy has picked up along the way. This is where you would be amazed by beautifully-arranged words written by the author.
The narrator is out of water after eight days on the desert. His plane engine is starting to look unfixable too. He and the little prince then trek in the desert looking for a well. They miraculously find one. This is probably the sign of how the story would end soon because the engine also makes a speedy and surprising recovery.
Back to the little prince and the farewell words...
He wants to return home to satisfy his longing towards his flower. Apparently, the only way that must be done for it is by letting himself beaten by a poisonous desert snake. This method sounds undecided to the narrator, but the prince is up for it. Then the snake bites the prince, who then collapses and disappears. Sounds sad, right? :( but this is not the end, yet.
The book (really) ends six years after the narrator met the prince. He still misses his friend, of course. At the end of story he wants us to keep looking for the prince, just like he is, and if we ever spot the little guy, he demands to be informed immediately. This makes me even more sad. :'(
Tear-jerking book.
That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.And that is only the beginning...
This book comes with a lot of pretty lines. It is quite hard to summarize. Well, I did my best. I intended to not showing you any spoiler, but I feel like I have to. Toddlers nowadays are read this book by their parents, so this is the right time for you to also do so. Anyway, there is always the feeling after reading such beautiful work... I have always felt like spreading it out so people would also read this book. Despite of its age, the content is highly relatable to the days we have now. So, it is naught for you to worry about.
In a nutshell, it is a beautiful book which tells about friendship between a stranded pilot with the Little Prince he found after landed his plane in the Sahara, far away from all human habitation. This Little Prince is visiting from another planet. The two then immediately hit it off. They become good friends over the course of a week. At this point I feel so relatable. There is always that short time of event where it lasts forever. The memories and people.
This pilot plays the narrator who is disappointed with the world of adults. He has reasons, although he is also an adult. Adults in his eyes lack of imagination. Instead, they keep making wrong choices and priorities. They are trapped in routines and wasting each second provided in their life with it. The pilot knows best since he is also lonely and pretty much has led a miserable life. After that the little prince comes in. He meets this pilot whose plane needs to be fixed after stranded out in the desert.
The little prince lives on an asteroid named B-612, which is as big as a house. There are three tiny volcanoes that come up to his knees on it: two are active, and he uses them to warm his breakfast; one is extinct, and he uses it as a footstool. And most importantly, on his planet is a flower whom he loves. Then he starts telling the narrator about this ill-tempered-yet-vain flower, and her all-round bad behavior which drives the prince away. So this Little Prince plans to explore around where he lives. But on the day of his departure, this flower admits that she loves him. She also regrets that she never expressed it before. In any case, the prince has decided to leave, so leave he does, though the whole situation has the feeling of bad break up. It can be seen from the way this little guy keeps thinking about her all the time.
On his journey, the prince visits several tiny asteroids/ planets inhabited by all sorts of strange characters namely a king, a conceited man, a merchant, and so on. They are selfish and petty. They also successfully convince the little prince that adults are weird. Finally, he makes his way to Earth. Before meeting this pilot, the little prince meets a wise fox. It teaches him about trust and friendship. The prince then realizes that he actually longs for his flower. Her uniqueness makes their relationship is worth keeping.
When he meets the narrator, the prince recounts his adventures to him. The narrator also gets to share in the truths on life and love that the little guy has picked up along the way. This is where you would be amazed by beautifully-arranged words written by the author.
The narrator is out of water after eight days on the desert. His plane engine is starting to look unfixable too. He and the little prince then trek in the desert looking for a well. They miraculously find one. This is probably the sign of how the story would end soon because the engine also makes a speedy and surprising recovery.
Back to the little prince and the farewell words...
He wants to return home to satisfy his longing towards his flower. Apparently, the only way that must be done for it is by letting himself beaten by a poisonous desert snake. This method sounds undecided to the narrator, but the prince is up for it. Then the snake bites the prince, who then collapses and disappears. Sounds sad, right? :( but this is not the end, yet.
The book (really) ends six years after the narrator met the prince. He still misses his friend, of course. At the end of story he wants us to keep looking for the prince, just like he is, and if we ever spot the little guy, he demands to be informed immediately. This makes me even more sad. :'(
Tear-jerking book.
