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The narrator later finds the prince talking to the snake, discussing his return home and his desire to see his rose again, whom he worries has been left to fend for herself. The prince bids an emotional farewell to the narrator and states that if it looks as though he has died, it is only because his body was too heavy to take with him to his planet. The prince warns the narrator not to watch him leave, as it will upset him. The narrator, realizing what will happen, refuses to leave the prince's side. The prince consoles the narrator by saying that he only need look at the stars to think of the prince's lovable laughter, and that it will seem as if all the stars are laughing.

The prince then walks away from the narrator and allows the snake to bite him, soundlessly falling down. The next morning, the narrator is unable to find the prince's body. He finally manages to repair his airplane and leave the desert. It is left up to the reader to determine if the prince returned home, or died.

The story ends with a drawing of the landscape where the prince and the narrator met and where the snake took the prince's corporeal life. The narrator requests to be immediately contacted by anyone in that area encountering a small person with golden curls who refuses to answer any questions. The story of The Little Prince is recalled in a sombre, measured tone by the pilot-narrator, in memory of his small friend, "a memorial to the prince—not just to the prince, but also to the time the prince and the narrator had together.

You can't ride a flock of birds to another planet The fantasy of the Little Prince works because the logic of the story is based on the imagination of children, rather than the strict realism of adults. Though the story is more or less understandable, the narrator made almost no connection from when the little prince traveled between planets, he purposefully did that so that the book felt like it was told from a secretive little boy.

Taking off with an open book balanced on his leg, his ground crew would fear his mission would quickly end after contacting something 'very hard'. On one flight, to the chagrin of colleagues awaiting his arrival, he circled the Tunis airport for an hour so that he could finish reading a novel.

In The Little Prince , its narrator, the pilot, talks of being stranded in the desert beside his crashed aircraft. Both miraculously survived the crash, only to face rapid dehydration in the intense desert heat. Lost among the sand dunes with a few grapes, a thermos of coffee, a single orange, and some wine, the pair had only one day's worth of liquid. They both began to see mirages , which were quickly followed by more vivid hallucinations.

By the second and third days, they were so dehydrated that they stopped sweating altogether. In a letter written to his sister Didi from the Western Sahara's Cape Juby , where he was the manager of an airmail stopover station in , he tells of raising a fennec that he adored. In the novella, the fox, believed to be modeled after the author's intimate New York City friend, Silvia Hamilton Reinhardt, tells the prince that his rose is unique and special, as she is the one he loves. The fearsome, grasping baobab trees, researchers have contended, were meant to represent Nazism attempting to destroy the planet.

I'm all right. I can't help it. It's my body".

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Consuelo was the rose in The Little Prince. I should never have fled. I should have guessed at the tenderness behind her poor ruses. The author had also met a precocious eight-year-old with curly blond hair while he was residing with a family in Quebec City in , Thomas De Koninck , the son of philosopher Charles De Koninck. Some have seen the prince as a Christ figure, as the child is sin-free and "believes in a life after death", subsequently returning to his personal heaven.

Late at night, during the trip, he ventured from his first-class accommodation into the third-class carriages, where he came upon large groups of Polish families huddled together, returning to their homeland. I sat down [facing a sleeping] couple. Between the man and the woman a child had hollowed himself out a place and fallen asleep. He turned in his slumber, and in the dim lamplight I saw his face. What an adorable face! A golden fruit had been born of these two peasants This is a musician's face, I told myself.

This is the child Mozart. This is a life full of beautiful promise.

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Little princes in legends are not different from this. Protected, sheltered, cultivated, what could not this child become? When by mutation a new rose is born in a garden, all gardeners rejoice. They isolate the rose, tend it, foster it. But there is no gardener for men. This little Mozart will be shaped like the rest by the common stamping machine This little Mozart is condemned.

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His intention for the visit was to convince the United States to quickly enter the war against Nazi Germany and the Axis forces , and he soon became one of the expatriate voices of the French Resistance. In the midst of personal upheavals and failing health, he produced almost half of the writings for which he would be remembered, including a tender tale of loneliness, friendship, love and loss, in the form of a young prince visiting Earth.

An earlier memoir by the author recounted his aviation experiences in the Sahara, and he is thought to have drawn on the same experiences as plot elements in The Little Prince. He wrote and illustrated the manuscript during the summer and fall of Although greeted warmly by French-speaking Americans and by fellow expatriates who had preceded him in New York, his month stay would be marred by health problems and racked with periods of severe stress, martial and marital strife. These included partisan attacks on the author's neutral stance towards supporters of both ardent French Gaullist and Vichy France.

After spending some time at an unsuitable clapboard country house in Westport, Connecticut , [50] they found Bevin House, a room mansion in Asharoken that overlooked Long Island Sound. The author-aviator initially complained, "I wanted a hut, and it's the Palace of Versailles. One of the visitors was his wife's Swiss writer paramour Denis de Rougemont , who also modeled for a painting of the Little Prince lying on his stomach, feet and arms extended up in the air. While the author's personal life was frequently chaotic, his creative process while writing was disciplined.

On the other hand, he was ruthless about chopping out entire passages that just weren't quite right", eventually distilling the 30, word manuscript, accompanied by small illustrations and sketches, to approximately half its original length. The large white Second French Empire -style mansion, hidden behind tall trees, afforded the writer a multitude of work environments, but he usually wrote at a large dining table. His meditative view of sunsets at the Bevin House were incorporated in the book , where the prince visits a small planet with 43 daily sunsets, a planet where all that is needed to watch a sunset "is move your chair a few steps.

In addition to the manuscript, several watercolour illustrations by the author are also held by the museum. They were not part of the first edition. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux "One sees clearly only with the heart.

What is essential is invisible to the eye" was reworded and rewritten some 15 times before achieving its final phrasing. Many pages and illustrations were cut from the finished work as he sought to maintain a sense of ambiguity to the story's theme and messages. Included among the deletions in its 17th chapter were references to locales in New York, such as the Rockefeller Center and Long Island. Other deleted pages described the prince's vegetarian diet and the garden on his home asteroid that included beans, radishes, potatoes and tomatoes, but which lacked fruit trees that might have overwhelmed the prince's planetoid.

Deleted chapters discussed visits to other asteroids occupied by a retailer brimming with marketing phrases, and an inventor whose creation could produce any object desired at a touch of its controls. For him, the night is hopeless. And for me, his friend, the night is also hopeless. In April a Parisian auction house announced the discovery of two previously unknown draft manuscript pages that included new text.


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The person he meets is an "ambassador of the human spirit". The novella thus takes a more politicized tack with an anti-war sentiment, as 'to gargle' in French is an informal reference to 'honour', which the author may have viewed as a key factor in military confrontations between nations. Werth soon became Saint-Exupery's closest friend outside of his Aeropostale associates.

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Werth spent the war unobtrusively in Saint-Amour , his village in the Jura , a mountainous region near Switzerland where he was "alone, cold and hungry", a place that had few polite words for French refugees. I ask children to forgive me for dedicating this book to a grown-up. I have a serious excuse: this grown-up is the best friend I have in the world. I have another excuse: this grown-up can understand everything, even books for children.