THE LITTLE PRINCE
The Author : Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Published : in 1943
The Little Prince has written in France language, but it has been translated into 180 languages for all readers around the world. This novel tells there is a little boy who loves to draw. But, when he showed the picture to an adult, they told him to stop drawing and start learning other things. Finally, the little boy stopped drawing and grew to become a pilot.
One day the pilot is stranded in the Sahara desert when his plane crashed. He tried to fix his plane because he had only enough drinking water for one week. In this desert, he met the little prince asked him to draw a sheep. The pilot admitted that he could not draw a sheep, but eventually he would. After some images initially rejected by the prince, the pilot draws a box and said “ there is a sheep in the box”. Not unexpectedly prince liked.
The little prince came from a very small planet, smaller than a house. On the planet, he has a rose and 3 volcanoes, 2 active and 1 inactive. Every morning after he finished taking care of himself, he began to take care of the planet.
Once, the little prince leaves his beloved planet to travel to some other planets. On the first planet, he meets a king who wants to be obeyed absolutely. On this planet, he learned many things about the power and obedience.
In the second planet, he met with a very arrogant person, who wants to be praised, and the journey continues to the third planet inhabited by a drunkard. The next planet was inhabited by businessman who is very busy and serious to count the stars, which in fact didn’t have. And the fifth planet inhabited by people who turn on the lamp and sixth planet inhabited by cartographer/geographer. In each planet, the little prince learns a lot of things, which led him to conclude the adults it is strange, really strange.
Then came the prince in the last planet, the Earth. On Earth, he is an awful a lot to get a lesson on the meaning of existence, the existence of the planet, it is also about life. He fell in the desert and was surprising how big this planet. Earth is remarkable place.
On the Earth, he met with a snake with the power to send someone to their home planet. Then, he met with a desert flower. After that, the prince climbs the mountain to see the world more clearly and were surprised when hearing their own echo. He thinks that humans are very odd because they always repeat what he said.
Prince was up to the garden full of roses. He was surprised because he thought that his rose specials and the only one in the world. The princess was crying. Then the prince met with a fox, and he tame the fox.
After a few days with the prince, the pilot dying of thirst, but he and the little prince finally found a welt. After thinking for a moment, the little prince says goodbye to the pilot because it was time to return to his home planet. The prince finally volunteered himself bitten by a snake to get back to his planet. The next day, the pilot thought that the little prince had returned to his home planet because he didn’t find her everywhere.
I think this novel very interesting because, in this novel the author conveyed some moral value to us. One of them is we must take responsibility for what we have done, even though it occurred in the past. Happy Reading Guys!
Reviewed by Priscatiyana Intan Kusumadewi
