About the Little Prince

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About The Little Prince “All grown-ups were children first.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote the touching story The Little Prince for all the children and all the adults who have ever been children. We are now in the step that between children and adults, what we’re going to face in the future and what should be brought from the past? The author wrote this story from the viewpoint of a pilot, who came across a little prince when his plane’s engine broke in the Sahara Desert. The little prince told about his adventure over 6 planets and different kinds of people. He expressed his love to his planet, his rose, his fox and the amazing universe. It’s a lovely story that makes you smile and brings you sorrow when you smile. The adults’ world The pilot once drew a picture which couldn’t be understood by adults. Maybe everyone of us have drawn pictures showing the world in our imagination. But we gradually found that the world in our pictures is not the world in adults’ eyes. We abandoned what we had believed and became a member of adults’ world. As little prince said, ‘grown-ups like numbers.’ Adults don’t care about your friends’ personality, a house’s surface, what they concern are people’s status and a house’s area. Children curious about what adults are doing everyday. They are busy with something serious. The little prince described that kind of serous man: never smelled a flower, never looked at a star, never loved anyone, never done anything except add up numbers. Do you still remember the fragrance of a flower? Have you ever been touched by star’s twinkle? Have you loved a person by heart? Adults do the things they think serious when something also serious may have been missed. Facing the gate of adults’ world, we have no other choice but entering. Even if we love children’s world, we can’t always be refugees in ivory towers, we must grow
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