The Little Prince

The novel is written in the first person. In the Sahara Desert, the narrator meets the little prince who comes from a planet which is away from the earth. The narrator knows something about the prince and his planet from their conversations. There’s a rose on his planet and he spends much time looking after it. He likes watching sunseting. He leaves to see what the rest of the universe like, and visits six other asteroids. Then he visits the earth.,and here He meets a fox, a railway switch and a merchant. At last he is sent back by a snake. That’s my prediction. The ending is mysterious.After I had read this novel, I was immersed into thought. There isn’t a complicated plot but some short paragraphs. I could find several viewpoints of the author from this novel.About Adults and ChildrenThe little prince couldn’t understand adults. The adults are described as people who are lack of imagination. The shortcomings of adults are reflected by five adults living on five asteroids: The King, the conceited man, the Drunkard, the businessman and the Geographer. They enjoy everything they own, but actually they have nothing! For instance, the king likes to order others to do what they would do. The author enlarges adults’ shortcomings and makes them ridiculous. This sets people thinking: which one of them I am? In the author’s eye, only children are ones who really know the purpose of living. As the switchman says, the adults are on the train never satisfied with where they are and don’t know that they are after. Only children are “flattening their noses against the windowpanes.” The original curiosity lets them enjoy the scenery with heart. One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. So the children are lucky.About Rose and FoxAs a fairy tale, there’s some elements of love in the novel. The little prince falls in love with the rose. The vain rose asks for a screen and a glass globe. The little prince follows her demands. Also the rose devotes her fragrance and radiance to the planet.When reaching the earth, he finds a garden with 5,000 roses. He feels upset for he is not a great prince at all and his rose is not unique. Then, he meets a fox. The fox tells him that his rose is unique because she is the only one he loves. Also, the fox asks him to tame him. Apparently, the fox loves the prince. I love the sentence: “The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you.” If you love someone, he or she will be unique in your world. Nothing can replace it. Besides, I’m deeply moved by the fox. He knows he can’t be together with the prince who is from another planet. But he wants a memory with him. The fox cries the moment the prince has to leave. Tame means responsibility. If I had a chance to choose, I would want to be the fox, watching the dark sky decorated with stars and recollect the happy time we spent together. That’s all I want.Sometimes I think everyone has his own planet, like the little prince. On that planet lives what he loves and cares about. Whether your life is happy or not, depends on what you care about. If you care too much about gains, there will be no flowers on your planet.

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"I think there are six or seven of them in existence. I saw them, several years ago. But one never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult."==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Bookmark Loc. 842 | Added on Monday, October 25, 2010, 03:18 PM==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 857 | Added on Monday, October 25, 2010, 03:19 PMecho.==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Bookmark Loc. 1025 | Added on Monday, October 25, 2010, 03:30 PM==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 1050-51 | Added on Monday, October 25, 2010, 03:39 PMcast an enchantment==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 1072 | Added on Monday, October 25, 2010, 03:44 PMpulley,==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 1072 | Added on Monday, October 25, 2010, 03:44 PMbucket,==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 1074 | Added on Monday, October 25, 2010, 03:44 PMweathervane,==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 1079 | Added on Monday, October 25, 2010, 03:46 PMpulley==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 1084 | Added on Monday, October 25, 2010, 03:46 PMnourishment.==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Bookmark Loc. 1129 | Added on Monday, October 25, 2010, 03:49 PM==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 1149 | Added on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 03:06 PMdying spray of a fountain,==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 1154 | Added on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 03:07 PMgravely,==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 1184-85 | Added on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 03:10 PMIf you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers..."==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Bookmark Loc. 1250 | Added on Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 03:15 PM==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 7 | Added on Thursday, November 04, 2010, 10:48 PMdedicating==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 903-8 | Added on Monday, January 31, 2011, 11:24 PM"Just that," said the fox. "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 all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world..." "I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..."==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 925-35 | Added on Monday, January 31, 2011, 11:26 PMThe fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time. "Please-- tame me!" he said. "I want to, very much," the little prince replied. "But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand." "One only understands the things that one tames," said the fox. "Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me..." "What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince. "You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me-- like that-- in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day..."==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 946-56 | Added on Monday, January 31, 2011, 11:27 PMSo the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- "Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." "It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you..." "Yes, that is so," said the fox. "But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. "Yes, that is so," said the fox. "Then it has done you no good at all!" "It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the colour of the wheat fields." And then he added: "Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make you a present of a secret."==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 968-72 | Added on Monday, January 31, 2011, 11:29 PM"Goodbye," he said. "Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." "What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.==========The little prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Irene Testot-Ferry)- Highlight Loc. 920-24 | Added on Monday, January 31, 2011, 11:32 PMif you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the colour of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat..."

语言很风趣。。。等看完了再来评。还下了有声版的，不过感觉没有那种味道。

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

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.

She has four thorns, of no use at all, to protect herself against all the world.

Is it yes or no? Has the sheep eaten the flower?