French children's literature short story - The Little Prince

Hello everyone, I'm Minastilis.

Today I want to share with you a book, I believe many people have seen, that is, "The Little Prince", this book has been translated into more than 250 languages, distributed in the world, sold more than 500 million copies, is the world's highest selling book besides the Bible, it has also been adapted into countless television, movies, musicals, operas and ballets and so on. His author, Saint-Exupéry, was a journalist and a French air force pilot who fought in two world wars, made many efforts to resist fascism during World War II, and was awarded the Cross. On the 50th anniversary of his death, a portrait of him and the Little Prince was printed on a 50 franc face.

An asteroid was discovered in the Civil Asteroid Belt in 1975, named after Saint-Exupéry, and another asteroid discovered in 1993 was named B-612, which is the planet inhabited by the Little Prince. Many of the readers who like the little prince are famous Writers at home and abroad, like Zhou Guoping once commented that he was a miracle, in fact, only a very few works are so exquisite, so simple, so profound, and so approachable, from the content to the form of radical perfection, but without the slightest trace of axe chisel, like a piece of natural jade.

So what kind of story does this beloved book tell? The Little Prince tells the story of a pilot who was forced to land in the Sahara Desert far from the inhabited desert because the plane malfunctioned. Then a charming and mysterious little boy appeared, stubbornly asking the pilot to draw him a sheep, he is our protagonist little prince, he has an emotional entanglement with a rose on his planet, so he wanders among the planets in a negative mood, and finally comes to the earth, trying to find a way to get rid of loneliness and pain. A little fox teaches him the true meaning of love and makes him determined to return to his rose, but he can't take her body with him, so he decides to turn to a poisonous snake that can kill people in 30 seconds and return his soul to his planet.

Some people say that the little prince is suitable for people aged 9 to 99 years old to read, and children can find resonance in the story and feel understood and accepted. Adults will see their own shadow in this story, understand and grow from it. So it is not only a fairy tale for children to see, but also can wash the hearts of adults. I'll interpret this story for you from three perspectives.

First all the adults were once children, but few people can remember this, what does the little prince's interstellar journey have to do with this sentence, and what kind of inspiration does he give us? Second, what is the relationship between the rose, the little fox and the little prince, and what can the story between them make us understand? Third, what is the author's life experience and emotional experience? What kind of experience made him write works like the Little Prince?

First of all, I will tell you about what happened to the little prince's interstellar journey. What kind of inspiration did he give us? The little prince comes from an asteroid, this planet is called b-612, this planet is very small to not much bigger than the little prince, the planet has three small volcanoes as high as his knees and some ordinary flowers, he will take care of his planet every day, one day the planet grows a delicate rose, the little prince fell in love with this rose at first sight, took good care of him, but the rose began to toss the little prince, he would say that he had a cough problem, he needed a glass cover to protect the wind, After a while, the little prince asked the tiger to catch him, and the little prince was very annoyed, so he decided to leave his planet and go to the outside world to have a look.

When the little prince left his planet in a negative mood, he first visited his planet neighbor, and the first planet was inhabited by a king, who wore a mink robe and sat on a very grand throne, and the whole planet was occupied by the king's luxurious mink robe. This king was very fond of giving orders, and when the little prince could not help yawning because he was tired, the king ordered that I forbid you to yawn. The little prince said very doubtfully, I have traveled a long way here and have not bothered to sleep, and the king said again, then I can order you to yawn, I order you to yawn again! The little prince was very helpless to hear these orders, and planned to leave this boring planet, but the king was extremely reserved and told him that he could be made minister of justice, but the planet was useless to even a person who could be judged, and the king hastened to propose that there was a rat on his own planet, and he could judge the rat, but he must be forgiven every time, because he was the only living creature here.

The little prince politely refused the king, these adults are really strange, the little prince thought, and then the little prince went to 5 planets, and the planets were inhabited by vanity lovers, drunks, merchants, lamplighters, and old geographers, all of whom believed that what they were doing was serious. But in the eyes of the little prince, these adults are really too strange, they are addicted to power, vanity, money, materialism, pseudo-knowledge and other illusions, so he is not willing to make friends with them, the little prince then came to Earth, and met a pilot who died in the desert.

The pilot is an interesting person, he painted a python that was digesting an elephant when he was 6 years old, the humor of this painting is vivid, but the adult said that he drew a hat, and also advised him to learn something useful, all the adults were once children, but most of them forgot, he could not help but issue such an exclamation, but the little prince saw the elephant inside the python's belly at a glance, and asked the pilot to draw a sheep for himself, because from time to time on his planet will grow a red bread tree that can destroy the ecology of the planet, He hoped that the lambs would be able to eat the saplings of the red bread tree and help him protect the planet and the roses.

When the little prince asked the pilot whether the sheep would eat roses, the pilot felt that the question was not important and repeatedly perfunctory him. The little prince wept in a hurry and said something like this, you are exactly like those adults, blooming my flower on one of the stars, if the lamb eats it, the flower will become dim and dull in an instant, is it not important? The little prince's words and tears deeply touched the pilot.

This conversation reminds me of another story I once heard, in which a child asked his father who returned late from overtime, Dad, how much is your salary for an hour? Dad says $20, kid says Dad can I borrow $10 from you? Dad is a little angry, thinking that the child wants to reach out to himself for money in order to buy toys, and does not care about his hard work of making money. But in the end, he gave the money to his son, and what the father did not expect was that the child took $10 and went back to his room, took $10 to me, and said to the father, Dad, can I buy you an hour? Tomorrow night I want to have dinner with you, the children in this story, like the little prince, have taught us adults a lesson, they let us see the most important thing that we ignore, the precious child's heart, we adults often use our own logic to speculate about the child, but forget to feel and listen to the child's heart with our hearts. Each of us was once a child, but when we grew up, we often forgot about this and easily abandoned our most precious things. Like the people of the planets whom the little prince met, they lived within the rules of adulthood, but lost their authenticity and vitality.

This interstellar journey of the little prince allows us to see how different he is from those adults, and the author reminds us in this way not to forget our inner little prince, not to forget the things that the child cares about.

What's next for us to see what's going on between Rose, the Little Prince, and the Little Fox? What can we learn? We mentioned rose's requirements and pickiness earlier, which made the little prince confused and unhappy, so he decided to leave roses, leave his own little planet, and go to the outside world to see.

Speaking of this, I would like to talk to you about my feelings, on the surface, the little prince left the planet because of rose's pickiness, but these made me think that when we fall in love with a person, we will give each other a lot of idealized beautiful imaginations, but when our love enters reality, we will find that the person we love is not as perfect as we imagined, and even have a lot of shortcomings that are unbearable, so there is an indescribable sense of annoyance and excess at any time.

Perhaps, when we are in love, or when the feelings are good, in the early days, we only participate in each other's wind and snow, but when we really want to participate in each other's chai rice oil and salt, you will find that there are many many things that fall from the ideal to the reality, this feeling is as if the little prince not only sees the beauty of the rose, but also sees the picky, vain and dependent side behind the beauty of the rose, then the perfect feeling in our hearts will be destroyed, resulting in a sense of loneliness that others cannot understand. Perhaps it was this loneliness that drove the little prince to leave his planet and find the meaning of life again.

After the little prince left his planet, he heard that the earth was a beautiful place, so he came to the earth very eagerly, but after arriving, the earth did not make it happy, because he found that the people on the earth were no different from the adults on other planets, they were like rolling grasses that did not grow roots and were blown around by the wind and lived very hard. One day after a long trek, he went to a garden, and he was shocked to find that the garden was full of roses, and they looked exactly like the roses of the little prince, and the little prince fell into a huge loss in an instant, because the rose had told him that she was the only rose in the world, but this was not the case, and the more the little prince thought about it, the more sad he became, it turned out that the rose was not only imperfect, nor unique, there were thousands of roses in the world like his roses.

At this time, the little prince experienced a major psychological crisis, but all this because of a small fox happened to turn around, in the little prince's most painful time, he quietly came to the little prince's side, let the little prince domesticate him, he hoped that the little prince and he could meet at a fixed time every day, do not have to say much, because language is the source of misunderstanding, as long as the heart to feel each other's relationship, every day than the previous day to meet is to do closer, the relationship between them will be closer and closer, just become the only one for each other, This is domestication. The little fox said, at first you are like thousands of other little boys to me, I am just an ordinary one of thousands of foxes to you, but you have domesticated us, you have established a close relationship, you will care about each other, for me, you will be the only one in this world, for you I will be your only one in this world.

In this way, the little prince domesticated the little fox when the moment of their separation came, and the little fox asked the little prince to look at the roses in the garden again, and came to the rose garden again, and the little prince found that his psychology had changed, and she felt that her roses were more important than these hundreds of roses, because she personally watered her, personally covered him with a cold glass cover, personally shielded him from the wind, and removed caterpillars for her. He listened to her complaints every day, her pride boasted, even her silence, he poured a lot of time and energy and love into the rose, let him and the rose have domesticated each other, he remembered before leaving the planet, the rose said to him, I love you, but I did not express it normally, it was my fault, he understood the rose more deeply.

He understood that behind this waywardness there was an unexpressed but sincere love, and he felt that he had a heavy responsibility for the rose, so he decided to go back to the rose, but the flesh was too heavy, so he chose to be killed by the poisonous snake and abandon the flesh to return to his planet.

In fact, the little prince's process of accepting the rose is also the process of accepting himself, and his dissatisfaction with the rose may be precisely his dissatisfaction with himself. Like the sad words he said after seeing hundreds of roses, I thought I was rich and had a unique flower in the world, but in fact she was just an ordinary rose, a small volcano as high as three knees, an ordinary rose, and what I had was enough to prove that I was not a great prince, and the process of his re-acceptance of the rose, that is, the process of his gradual growth in the pursuit of himself.

Above we tell how the little prince, under the guidance of the little fox, gradually understood the true meaning of love. This trip to the planet made him understand that his love for roses and his pursuit of the value of life were unified, and the little prince eventually grew up, and this growth crossed life and death, reaching an eternal realm. After listening to the story of the little prince, we can feel its rich connotation and profound significance. So what about the author's life experience and emotional experience? What was it about his legendary experience that led him to write a work like the Little Prince?

Then we walk into Saint-Exupéry to further deepen our understanding of the work. First of all, I would like to introduce you to the growth experience of Saint-Exupéry, he was born in an aristocratic family, his father died when he was young, but his mother was very strong and great, his talent in music, literature and painting deeply influenced Saint-Exupéry, he never stopped supporting his children, and it is precisely because of this that Saint-Exupéry embarked on a personality of self-expression and originality when he grew up.

Saint-Exupéry, who has had literary dreams since childhood, has always insisted on his literary creation in the process of growing up, in addition to loving literature, he also wants to become a pilot and soar freely in the sky. With the support of his mother, he enlisted as a pilot. During the flight he obtained a lot of writing material and created many successful works on the theme of flight, but the days of flying alone were lonely, and this life made Saint-Exupéry want to find a harbor for himself to play with his heart. It wasn't long before he met his Rose, Consouro Sushin, a charming South American woman who was a painter and sculptor with a quick mind and a rich imagination.

2 people married after 7 months of acquaintance, Saint Exupéry's illustration in the little prince, also by the guidance of his wife, but the married life of this pair of heavenly partners is often frictional, Saint Exupéry will be fascinating in the flight adventures, even the love between the little prince and the rose also reflects his and his wife's love life, just like the rose tortured the little prince, Consouro is also equally willful, vain, moody, always need the attention of others, when lying to cough and faint to divert attention.

After three years of marriage, the married life of the two also lit up a red light, they could not live together, but leaving his wife made the author very painful, just like the little prince said, if a person falls in love with a unique flower in the vast stars, then this person will feel extremely happy when he looks up at the stars in the sky. He would tell himself that my flower was somewhere far away, but if the flower was eaten by a sheep, all the starlight would be completely extinguished for him in an instant.

In addition to roses, many things of the little prince can be found in the archetypes of the life of Saint-Exupéry. The volcano that the little prince used to cook, from the Patagonian plateau of South America, the bread tree from Dakar in Africa, were all landscapes he saw when he flew the plane in his early days, and the prototype of the little fox came from his lover in New York, Sylvia, whose French was terrible, and Saint-Exupéry's English was terrible, so there was a barrier to communication between them. This is also the source of misunderstanding that the little fox speaks language?

In the little prince, we can also see this emotional experience with Sylvia, which also makes him rethink his responsibility to his wife. In the short but colorful life of Saint-Exupéry, he was not only a pilot writer, he was also a journalist, but also a great patriot, and the little prince finally gained an epiphany of responsibility, not only for the roses, but also for the earth, and it was because of this sense of responsibility that the little prince was so anxious about the red bread saplings, and it was also out of a sense of responsibility that the author, at the age of 43, returned to the battlefield wounded for the country, flew a reconnaissance plane over the forward position, and disappeared forever on the surface of the sea.

Some people say that he went to his own planet like the little prince, in real life, he did not fulfill the lifelong commitment to the companionship of his wife Consouro, but on the spiritual level, he was always with his own rose, and here today's sharing of this book is all over, let's review the wonderful world presented to us by the little prince's book.

First of all, the little prince's book is about the child's heart, and he reminds us of the preciousness and innocence of the child's heart through these experiences after the little prince left his planet. Each of us adults should learn to protect our own childhood heart as we grow up, rather than discarding precious treasures. Secondly, through the story of the little prince, the rose and the little fox, we understand the relationship between domestication and love. Love is not only a passion, but also a kind of companionship and responsibility, responsibility and love do not conflict, only by integrating responsibility into love and growing with the other half can we experience the integrity of love.

Finally, by understanding the legendary life of the author Saint Exupéry, we can find that the work of the Little Prince was written by the author with his life, and our understanding and pursuit of this book has never stopped over the years, because the desire for love and the exploration of the meaning of life have always been the eternal themes of mankind. The little prince is such a legendary and classic work, simple and unpretentious and meaningful, I hope that my story can let you have a certain understanding and understanding of him, and continue to accompany him on the road of love. Well, the sharing of this issue is here, I am Minas Tilis, see you in the next issue.