Villaflores, Junnell A.

STEM 12-6, Senior High School Department

Polytechnic University of the Philippines

LITTLE PRINCE

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Little Prince is a novel with who depicts a story of a child , the little prince, who travel the
universe gaining wisdom. The story begin with the introduction of the narrator telling himself that
adults are lack of imagination and understanding, who is now a pilot and has crashed his airplane
landed on a dessert. From there, he encounter a child who called him a little prince who demanded
him for a drawing of a sheep. While the narrator fixing his airplane, he found out that the little
prince is living on a small planet known to be asteroid B-612, taking good care and preventing it
from any bad seeds until a mysterious plant who determined to be unique and beautiful grow from
his planet and starting to fell inlove with her. But he soon found out that the rose is lying, the little
prince leave and cure his loneliness.

On his journeying, he finished to visit six planets , he meet the king, a vain man, a drunkard,
a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer who live individually and completely consumed
by their chosen occupation. He learned a lot from them and befriends with a fox, who teaches him
that the important things in life are visible only to the heart, that time he recall their memories of
rose and realized that even there is many roses, his love for her what makes the rose unique and
he is that responsible for her.

The narrator and the little pirince have spent eight days in the dessert and have run out of
water. They try to search for a well and they miraculously found one. The little prince tells the
narrator that he has a plan to return to his home for her flower. It requires a poisonous snake to
bite him to return to his planet. The story resume six years later and narrator says that the prince's
body was missing in the morning so he conclude that he has now returned to his planet. He wonder
that wether the sheep he drew for the prince ate his flower. He ends by imploring the reader to
contact him if they ever spot the little prince.

In Conclusion, the deep meaning of the story was expressed when the fox tells the little
prince: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
The story tells us the importance of searching for the truth is looking beyond it. Don't rely on what
we can only see instead, see and value them on how we want to feel the love for them.