• 2009-01-31Narration

    I can't look into your heart even can't see your eyes.

    I dare not watch my figure in your beautiful eyes cos it may bring me the painfulness.

    You let me smile, laugh, cry, and slient.

    You let me walk, jump, stop,and rewalk.

    Thanks for the compromisation and compensation.

    But just let us go and separete.

    For good.

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  • 2009-01-29The Invisibleness

    The Little Prince

    The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    The Little Prince Summary | Plot Summary

    Published in 1943, The Little Prince is a fantasy about a pilot, stranded in the Sahara, who meets a small boy from another planet. The boy, who refers to himself as a prince, is on a quest for knowledge. The little prince asks questions of the pilot and tells the pilot of life on his own very small planet. This story is told in a simple fashion, as children's stories typically are, but it is not really a children's story. It is a story of a grown-up who has almost forgotten what is important. It is the story of the pilot's reconnection to his own sense of imagination and wonder. It is the story of the re-opening of the pilot's heart.

    The action of the story is preceded by the pilot's recollection of his first attempt at drawing. He describes both the drawing and the reaction it inspires in the adults to whom he shows it. The lack of enthusiasm for his work, coupled with the total failure of grown-ups to comprehend it, is so disappointing to the author he stops drawing altogether. When he finds himself stranded in the Sahara many years later, it is with some irony the first request he receives from the little prince, who has appeared out of nowhere, is: "If you please--draw me a sheep!"

    From that point on, the pilot and the little prince become inseparable. As the pilot continues to fumble with his aircraft, in hopes of repairing it before his supply of water runs out, the little prince tells him of all the places he has been and about life on his own small planet. In one story, the little prince recounts his realization that his lovely flower, his single prize possession, is in fact one of millions just like it. It is only after a series of new experiences that the prince comes to realize that his flower is truly special--not so much because it is a rose, as there are many, many roses--but because it is his rose. It is the time and care he takes with "her" that makes her special to him.

    The novel follows the prince through an encounter with a businessman, a snake, a king, a fox and more. In each encounter, we see the little prince confront the limitations of the so-called "grown-up" mindset. We see the prince learning about life from flowers and animals while the grown-ups he encounters show him little more than what to avoid. In the end, therefore, it is fitting that it is the pilot who learns more from the little prince than he is able to teach the boy, in spite of the fact that throughout the book the boy is asking most of the questions. This point is emphasized on at least three separate occasions, when the author points out that the little prince ". . . never in his life let go of a question, once he had asked it."

    When the story ends, the little prince has chosen to leave earth and return to his planet. He does so by enlisting the help of a poisonous snake, the same snake he met earlier in his travels. He allows himself to be bitten and he prepares to leave his body. The pilot is distraught and tries to save the little prince. He fails.

    The pilot then comes to realize that something his little friend told him in the very beginning of the book is true: If you love something, sometimes just knowing it exists is enough to make you happy. The pilot looks up at the stars and knows that somewhere out there, the little prince is back at home, on his own little planet, tenderly caring for his beautiful flower. He wonders about the sheep they both feared might eat it. He thinks to himself how important it is to ask oneself that very question: has the sheep eaten the flower? The story ends as the pilot says to himself "no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!"

     All essay up here comes from LitSum.com

    Author's Report

    The Little Prince is a fairy-story written by Saint-Exupery which tells about a little prince’s journey through several planets.

    Saint-Exupery is an excellent author. He has written the book so that it can be read either as a simple childhood tale or as an awe-inspiring and thought-provoking novel for readers who seek the deeper meaning.

    “I”, the narrtor, a pilot, discribes his miserible childhood years when he sincerely love his hobby of painting. But the paintings are often misunderstood by the grow-ups. Why such things happen? The book leads us to visit a large scene of the inner life.

    The charming story is about a little prince who falls to earth from Asteroid B-612. What kind of little prince is he? He's a lonely little prince. He's in need of a friend, and so he sets off on a journey across the planets to see who he can find.

    There are many symbols engraved in the story. The unique rose on the Asteroid B-612, the absolute monarch, the tamed fox, the businessman and even the narrotor’s childish paintings. Each object has a meaning of its own.

    The paintings refer to the innocence, creations and imaginations of children. Everyone has a little castle when in his small age. There might be a beautiful and elegant prince or princess living in it with many magnificent pets. With these magical creations and imaginations, children discover many new things that emerge in their lovely brains which adults can never figure them out. Because the grow-ups have already learned the rules of the world during the long period of time they’re growing up, they form the rules as common senses of life. They are like that. One must not hold it against them. Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people. Then, with the increasing misunderstandings between kids and adults, the kids gradually fail to enlarge their beautiful thoughts just like the narrotor gives up painting and swiftly switches himself to the normal lessons such as geography, history, arithmetic and grammar.

    The fact is that if you were to say to the grown-ups: "I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof," they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all. You would have to say to them: "I saw a house that cost $20,000." Then they would exclaim: "Oh, what a pretty house that is!"

    All these come to the result that most of us human beings have lost the inspiration of creation and imagination, thus we inherit the character of conservation and monotonousness generation by generation.

    When the king comes out in the tale. Readers may question how the arrogant king rules over everything in the universe? But when we read such words he says,“One much require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution. I have the right to require obedience because my orders are reasonable." Readers may understand some other theories that the powers which control human are the orders they can perform, if the leader order some unworkable rules the following people would argue against them or even start a fight for their freedom for the reason that unbridled power would be destructive to the survival of the species. freedon is often in conflict with power. The more power one has, even if he/she uses it for others’ benefit, the less freedom others have. But if the decisions of the ruler are of the people, by the people, for the people like Abraham Lincoln’s great opinion, the people would be willing to obey and the realm would not perish from the earth.

    These are what the prince and the author intend to tell us. Like the fox says:” Words are the source of misunderstandings.” The meaning of the tale is in the tale itself. It could be taken in so many ways from so many different perspectives. Yet you can't help but giggle at the personifications of each star and who is on them. You can't help but bite your lip to keep from crying at the end. You can't help spending time afterwards to think about what the story meant in a whole. And once you figure out what it meant for YOU. Then the author truely had succeed.

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