The book report on little prince

The book report of little prince李娜外汉1002班101120222 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry，the author of little prince, a France who have double identity-- pilot and writer. He was born in Lyon, France in 1900, and work as a pilot for French Air force. Then he joined the Second World War when German fascist invaded France in 1939. In 1940, France lost the war and he began his was exiled to America with a severely wounded body. But he urged to return to the battlefield and he succeeded in 1943.On July 31, 1944 morning, he was carrying out his last task as a pilot, and this 44 aged man never came back. It’s became the mo st mysterious thing in French literary history.During his life he never let up his effort to writing. He had only six work were published, but each of them was famous and popular, like night service, people’s land. His work usually used plants as writing tool, form the height of the universe, to observe the world, to explore life. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was considered to be one of the person who first to pay attention to the condition of humans. The little prince was written in 1942 in US. And it was voted be the best book of the 20th century in France, translated into more than 250 languages and dialects. It has become one of the best-selling books.The reader is introduced to the narrator who, as a young boy, drew a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. However, he is discouraged from drawing when all adults who look at his picture see a hat, instead. The narrator attempts to explain what his first picture depicts by drawing another one clearly showing the elephant, disturbing the adults as a result. As such, he decides to become a pilot, which eventually leads to a crash in the Sahara desert.In the desert, the narrator meets the little prince, who recognizes the drawing for what it is. The little prince's home is an asteroid. It’s any larger than a house, has three volcanoes (two active, and one dormant) and a rose, among various other objects. The Prince spends his days caring for the asteroid, pulling out the baobab trees that are constantly trying to take root there. But before he met the rose, he was sad and lonely. And one day he saw the sunset 44 times because he was sad. The Prince falls in love with the rose, who appears not to return his love due to her vain nature. The Prince loses his trust in the rose after she lies to him, and he grows lonely again. Then he began his journey. He visits six other asteroids, each of which is inhabited by a odd adult----a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter, a geographer. Then he came to the Earth.On the Earth, the prince meets a snake that claims to have the power to return him to his home planet, though the prince refuses this offer. The prince then meets a desert flower, who tells him that there are only a handful of men on Earth and that they have no roots, letting the wind blow them around and living hard lives. The prince climbsthe highest mountain he has ever seen. When the prince calls out, his echo answers him, and he mistakes it for the voices of other humans. He begins to feel that he is not a great prince at all, as his planet contains only three tiny volcanoes and a flower he now thinks of as common. He lies down in the grass and weeps. As the prince cries, a fennec fox comes across him. The prince tames the fox, who explains to him that his rose really is unique and special, because she is the one whom the prince loves. The fox also explains that, in a way, the prince has tamed the flower, and that this is why the prince now feels responsible for her. Then the prince decided to return his planet. The narrator is dying of thirst, but finds a well with the help of the prince. The narrator later finds the prince discussing his return home with the snake. The prince warns the narrator not to watch him leave, as it will make him sad. The narrator, realizing what will happen, refuses to leave the prince's side. The prince allows the snake to bite him, and falls without making a sound. The next morning, the narrator tries to look for the prince, but is unable to find his body.This is a fairy tale written for adults, a fairy tale about love and responsibility.. The little prince can’t understand the odd adult. So the author said to give this book to the adult who once was a child. All grown—ups were once children—although few of them remember it. The characters in this book symbolize different people in human society. And from these characters we can find lots of lust, greed, mean, numbness and so on. They weren’t as innocent as child any longer. The little prince doesn’t like those people, and can’t understand why they wa nt to pursue such boring things like power, fame, money, and figure. The little prince loves his petty rose, although therose is vanity. "If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, 'Somewhere, my flower is there. Everyone has this feeling because everyone has something or somebody to cherish and miss. The fox is my favorite character. He let the prince realized his rose is unique. He says, “To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in the world. To you, I shall be unique in the world…"The fox also says, “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." The little prince then knows he must be responsible to which he tamed. So he leave the fox to find his rose, but he forget that he has already tamed the lonely fox. Time flies, we have lost too many nice things, such as purity, innocent. We do things for getting something, but not just love it. Form this book, we may know what should be cherished.。