One is a representation of despair and death, another guides little prince through complications of life. Then he complicates the narrative with social criticism that is pronounced in images of adults, whom little prince struggles to understand.Īlso, on this figurative level, Saint-Exupéry introduces new characters – a snake and a fox. On a basic level the author discusses eternal topics of love, friendship, loss and self-analysis. I identified three: basic, figurative and hypothetical. Some call it “poetic tale,” the others “adult fable,” and all agree that this short novella is philosophical on many levels. The Little Prince is a fusion of autobiography, fantasy and moral allegory. If the story begins to sound strange to you, we are heading the right direction. In these life and death circumstances Saint- Exupéry meets the little prince who left his planet with three volcanoes and a rose to travel the universe. He has no mechanic to help and decides to start a difficult repair himself.
I was furious!Īs it turned out, the book was never intended for a child, but rather for a grown-up who once was a child, and I decided to give The Little Prince another chance.Īfter an aeroplane crashes in the Sahara Desert, its pilot, Saint-Exupéry, gets stuck in the middle of nowhere with a broken engine and hardly any water to drink.
What a disappointment for an 8-year-old reader. No wonder: the book was written in a childish manner with charming, humorous illustrations, and yet I could not make any sense of it. When I picked up The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for the first time, I hated it.
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