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Le Petit Prince: Themes and Summary

The document provides an overview of the classic book "Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It discusses that the story follows a young prince who visits various planets and meets strange individuals. Key themes of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss are addressed. After crashing in the Sahara desert, the narrator meets the little prince and they have conversations around what is truly important in life. The prince ultimately decides to return to his home planet, but it is devastating for the narrator. The book has been translated into over 300 languages and is one of the best-selling books ever published.

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Le Petit Prince: Themes and Summary

The document provides an overview of the classic book "Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It discusses that the story follows a young prince who visits various planets and meets strange individuals. Key themes of loneliness, friendship, love, and loss are addressed. After crashing in the Sahara desert, the narrator meets the little prince and they have conversations around what is truly important in life. The prince ultimately decides to return to his home planet, but it is devastating for the narrator. The book has been translated into over 300 languages and is one of the best-selling books ever published.

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  • Content
  • Introduction
  • Why I choose this book
  • Outline
  • Favorite Quote
  • Vocabulary
  • Clip

Le Petit Prince

2020/6/18
Content
1. Introduction
2. Why I choose this book
3. Outline
[Link]
5. Vocabulary
6. Clip
Introduction
• First published in English and French in the US by Reynal & Hitchcock in
1943
• Posthumously published in France following the liberation of France
as Saint-Exupéry's works had been banned by the Vichy Regime.
• In the story, a young prince visits various planets.
• Themes addressed: loneliness, friendship, love, and loss.
• A children-style book with poignant observations about
• life and human nature.
• One of the best-selling and most translated books ever published.
• Translated into 361 languages and dialects.
• Adapted to numerous art forms and media.
Why I choose this book
• A tale written for adults.
• First read at 15
• Read numerous time and always be inspired
• For both adolescents and adults.
• When Adults grow up and forget all their hopes and
dreams, they also lose curiosity. Some of them
become very greedy, naive, or arrogant.

• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,


what is essential to the eyes are invisible.
Outline The narrator, a pilot, crash-lands his plane in
the Sahara desert.
A little boy appears out of nowhere and asks
him to draw a sheep.
This “little prince” comes from the far away
Asteroid B-612, where he left a rose and three
volcanoes.
The prince’s most prized possession was the
rose, but her tempestuous mien and fickleness
tired him and he decided to leave. To his
surprise, the flower was visibly sad, but she
urged him on nonetheless.
Before arriving on Earth, the prince visited other
planets and met with strange individuals: a king,
a vain man, a drunkard, a lamplighter, and a
geographer.

At the geographer’s suggestion, he visited Earth


but dropped down into the Sahara Desert. He found
no friends there, but a snake told him that if he
ever needed to return to his home planet, he could
take advantage of the snake’s bite.

He met a fox that taught him to realize that to


know others we must “tame” them; this is what
makes things and people unique. “The essential is
invisible to the eye,” says the fox.
The narrator grows to love and cherish the small boy, marveling
at how fragile he seems though he adopts a serious air. He and the
boy find a well and drink from it, which saves the narrator’s life,
but right as he is about to tell the prince he's fixed his engine, he
happens upon the prince talking to a yellow snake about poison.
The plan is for the prince to reunite with his rose, but this is
utterly devastating to the narrator. Nevertheless, the boy lets the
snake bite him and falls over into the sand. The narrator cannot
find his body the next day and hopes that the boy is not dead.
Favorite quote

“People where you live, the little


prince said, grow five
thousand roses in one
garden... Yet they don't find
what they're looking for... And
yet what they're looking for
could be found in a single
rose.”
Vocabulary
1. Asteroid (n.)
minor planet or planetoid
2. Fickleness (n.)
the quality of being likely to change suddenly
and without warning
3. Devastating (adj.)
causing a lot of damage or destruction
4. Dwindling(adj.)
gradually becoming smaller in size or
amount, or fewer in number:
The Little Prince Animation trailer (2015)
• [Link]
Le Petit Prince

Le Petit Prince 2020/6/18The Little Prince
Content 1. Introduction 2.Why I choose this book 3. Outline 4.Quote 5.Vocabulary 6.Clip
Introduction • First published in English and French in the US by Reynal & Hitchcock in 1943 • Posthumously published in Fra
Why I choose this book • A tale written for adults. • First read at 15 • Read numerous time and always be inspired • For bot
The prince’s most prized possession was the rose, but her tempestuous mien and fickleness tired him and he decided to leave.
Before arriving on Earth, the prince visited other planets and met with strange individuals: a king, a vain man, a drunkard
The narrator grows to love and cherish the small boy, marveling at how fragile he seems though he adopts a serious air. He a
“People where you live, the little prince said, grow five thousand roses in one garden... Yet they don't find what they'r
1. Asteroid (n.) minor planet or planetoid 2. Fickleness (n.) the quality of being likely to change suddenly and without wa
The Little Prince Animation trailer (2015) • https://youtu.be/fEPqgSNLfK8?t=5 (https://youtu.be/fEPqgSNLfK8?t=5)

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