《小王子》英语读书报告-Book Report about the Little Prince

Book Report__The Little Prince

SUKI (Foreign Language School)

1. Introduction towards the author

the The little prince written by Antoine de Saint, who hailed from France, is a masterpiece renowned worldwide. Antoine de Saint(1900-1944), a pilot, took part in the 1st and 2nd world war, who was a famous writer, his representative works such as Southern Mail《南方邮航》(1928)、Vol de Nuit, 《夜航》(1931), etc. In 1944, he piloted a plane and never came back. The flight recorder had it as: Did not return. He disappeared, but his Little Prince made him alive forever.

2. Introduction towards the book’s content

The Little Price is so readable suitable for people from 8 to 88 that has been translated into more than 150 languages, which has been known as the best readable book for our human beings and published more than 200 million versions till now, the number just next to the Bible.

The Little Price told us a beautiful but sad story, which occurred in a boundless, dreaming like desert ___Sahara. Here a charming, mysterious blond boy came to the life of the pilot (or me). The Little prince who was a depressed, crystal pure boy hailed from a planet, or more accurate from Asteroid B-612 (in chapter 5). He was fond of asking questions, never let a question go once he had asked it, but unwilling to respond others’ questions. He asked me to draw him a sheep, but since I was a child, I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and the inside. In the first four days I knew all that his life from the sheep: I knew there is a kind of plant named as baobabs which could destroy his whole planet if he doesn’t pull them up immediately. Once a lazy man who had neglected three little such bushes resulted into a catastrophe: all his planet was occupied by the three huge baobabs. On the fifth day, it seemed that everything came to light about my Little Prince.

He escaped from his planet because of affection-involvement with his flower, a proud rose. Before his departure, he carefully cleaned his volcanoes, pulled up the last little baobabs. All the task seemed so precious to him. When he watered the flowers he was very close to tears. But finally he left as he had decided to go away. He visited all his neighborhood planets. The first one was dwelt by a wise king, who want him to be a Minister of Justice. The little prince replied: to judge who, as there was no subjects to judge ? The king answered: to judge yourself and continued: “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.”This visit made him feel the grown-ups are so strange.

The second one was resided by a conceited man who always asked to appreciate him, and when receiving admire, he raised his hat in a modest salute, which action made the little prince feel the grown-ups so odd.

A tippler who lived in the third planet indulged himself into drinking, sitting