Despite I’ve not in my childhood yet, I still prefer reading fairy-tale stories. the tales, which accompany with me in my old days, often make me think of some precious experience and sensation which only belong to children. This summer I’ve review this kind of tale, which was published in 1940. It’s the world-famous fairy-tale by the French author, Antoine de St-Exupery, The Little Prince.
As many other fairy-talethe outline of The Little Prince is not very complex. “I”, the narrator of the story, is a pilot whose plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara. In this occasion, the pilot makes the acquaintance of the little prince, a little boy from another planet, the Asteroid B612. The little prince has escaped from his tiny planet, because he has some quarrel with a rose, which grows on his planet. In that case he left his own planet and took an exploration at some neighbor asteroids.
On his all-alone journey, the little prince meets different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer. From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd. Following the instruction of the geographer, he descends in the Sahara, on the earth.
Traveling onthe earth, the little prince, who sees a garden of five-thousand roses, is overcome with astonishment and sadness, as he considers his rose is unique in the universe before. At that time a fox appears. The fox, who tell the little prince about the meaning of the word “tame”, becomes his new friend. At the time to say farewell, the fox makes him know that his rose is unique because she is his rose and tamed by him. From that the little prince begins to treasure friendship and be responsible to his rose.
《Little Prince》was written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,a famous French writer.It has been interpreted into forty-two languages,and read by every field of people.《Little Prince》 is a fairy tale,without any surprising plots,or amazing actions.However,it is still worth reading because of its special meanings of education.This story can be divided into three parts.At first,little prince is quite curious about the world outside,he has lots of questions in mind.Then he tries to find the answers by travelling.He goes to seven celestial bodies early or late,facing much lure and hardness.He doesn’t give up and keeps on looking for the answers.At the end,he doesn’t find the answer and loses his life.What a pity!Little prince has a very pure soul and refuses to obey to the rules set by the society.The story tells us that we should keep a pure soul and never give up!