Name: Feliciano, Dani Rose P.

Section: 1-1

NOVEL ANALYSIS

Title: The Little Prince

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Background of the Author / Context of the Novel:

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is a French aviator and author. His novels are deeply
inspired by his experiences as an aviator. He was 12 years old when he took his first
trip in an airplane that started his love for flying. Southern Mail, his first novel, was
based by his experience when he was placed in charge of an airfield in Sahara during
his compulsory military service. His novel with the same theme entitled, Night Flight,
received the Prix Prima literary prize and later was adapted into a Hollywood film. He
flew for the last time for his reconnaissance mission to France, Exupéry never returned
even his plane was never found. Year 2002, his wrecked plane was found in the
Mediterranean Sea and suspected that it was shot down.

Genre:

Fiction

Setting:

The story took place in the Sahara Desert where their first encounter happened.
Exupéry have vast knowledge about the place due to his experience during his time in
the Sahara Desert.

Time:
 The story took place during a hot day in the Sahara Desert. The year 1909 and
1920 was mentioned in the story it was discovery of the Little Prince planet, Asteroid B-
612. Despite the year mentioned, Little Prince transcends time. Anyone can relate with
the plot of the story. It was made for every generation. It could also be interpreted in
different point of views, depending on the age of the reader.

Theme:

The main of theme of the story is the finding the real meaning to what we are
looking at. Appreciating it beyond what we see, maintaining and loving our inner child,
not losing the imagination we once have. Questioning things, we don’t understand.

Main Characters:

The main characters are the Aviator and the Little Prince, the Aviator is a grown
up while the little prince was said to be an extraordinarily small person.

Interaction:

At first the Aviator is bewildered by the fact that there is a child in the desert that
doesn’t look hungry nor thirsty. The Little Prince acted as if everyone is his friend,
asking for a drawing of the sheep from someone he just met. There are times that the
Aviator answers without thinking and making the Little Prince mad and crying. But in the
entire story they showed a relationship like two close friends that have known and
understand each other for a long time.

Narrator:

The Aviator is the narrator in the story, he is telling the story in a first person point
of view. He shares how he felt during the interactions and also the Little Prince
emotions.

Plot Summary:

As a child, the Aviator never had someone who understands his drawing of the
boa constrictor eating an elephant. Grown-ups would suggest that he should focus on
studying. His study with geometry helped him in his travels. During one of his trips, he
crashed in the Sahara Desert damaging his plane. One morning, he woke up by a little
voice asking him to draw him a sheep. For the first time someone understood his
drawing about the boa constrictor.

The Little Prince told him about his planet, and his adventure after leaving it. He
left his planet because of the flower that he loves. His detailed story about the grown-
ups he encountered from different planets he travelled into. Grown-ups are only
interested about matters of consequences, everything that can affect your every action.

At the end the Little Prince learned a lot of things on Earth, including the wisdom
parted by the Fox. About how love can change everything, there are millions of roses
but you can still see your own rose. It will be like how the sun shines every day in your
life. After the aviator fixed his plane, the Little Prince also decide to go back to his star,
his own planet.

Organization:

It was an out of order narration, it will have flashbacks and shift from the present
and past.

Writing Style:

The story was written in a Narrative style of writing. It conveys conflicts, settings,
characters background and their experiences. It made the story more relatable, it
imparted a lesson and also made me feel emotions.

Conflict:

The conflict the Aviator experienced is caused by the grown-ups around him,
they didn’t understand what he is trying to tell using his drawing and instead suggesting
different things. Those experience made him wary on how he will act with different
people. While the Little Prince is a combination of self-inflicted and surroundings, his
love for his flower that ends up with a misunderstanding for not knowing how they really
feel for each other made him leave his planet/star.

Climax:

When the fox made the Little Prince realized how his flower is unique, there is
only one flower for him. He nurtured and showered with love.

Resolution or Denouement:
 The Little Prince decide to go back to his star/planet, where his flower and two
volcanoes are located.

Explain why the title was chosen for the story:

The title Little Prince best fitted the story, the story revolves around the Little
Prince. His interaction with the Aviator, the lessons he unknowingly parted with him, the
bond they created. Also his adventure to his journey after leaving his planet, and the
reasons that led to it.

Symbolisms:

Flower – the flower symbolizes a lover or first love. It was nurtured and loved.

Baobabs – symbolizes bad habits, it was said the it was deep inside the earth and
arises when a desire awakens. Like bad habits, you have to get rid of it the moment you
see it or else it will stay to you and will be hard to remove.

Planets/Asteroids- represents how we have our own world, that differences make it
hard for us to be connected. Living in our own world when someone enters it we
assume that they must adhere to our own rules.

Yellow Snake – represents death. His bite is poisonous, he offered to bite the Little
Prince so he can go back to his planet in the stars.

Explain the ending of the novel:

When we are young we are told that when a person die he will become a star.
The Little Prince decided to end his life at the end of the story. He accepted the offer
made by the snake that he can return to his flower if he bites him. The Aviator is being
comforted by his belief that he has gone back to the star because he didn’t see the
body. It can also be a product of his hallucinations, the Aviator crashed in the Sahara
Desert wherein there is no water, no food and no shelter, so it is probable that the Little
Prince didn’t really existed.

Explain the moral of the novel:

Find the real meaning behind things, do not look at it as is. Always read between
the lines to understand it much deeper. Appreciate the little things that we have. Don’t
forget and kill your inner child, a grown-up should also enjoy things we enjoy as a kid.