Book Report:

The Little Prince

Le Petit Prince
Esteban Acevedo
Vocabulary • Égaré – astray:
Away from the correct path or correct way of doing
something

• Aussitôt –forthwith
Immediately:

• Bélier – Ram
Mammal. Related to goats, it is characterized for having
a pair of horns

• Remettre – remit
To reduce a period of time that someone must spend in
prison

• Chagrin – grief
Very great sadness, especially at the death of someone:
 • Grâce – grace
A quality of moving in a smooth, relaxed, and attractive way:

• Arracher- snatch
Vocabulary To take hold of something suddenly and roughly:

• Sagacité- sagacity
To take hold of something suddenly and roughly:

• Apprivoiser – tame
(Especially of animals) not wild or dangerous, either naturally or because
of training or long involvement with humans:

• Aiguilleur – switchman
One who attends a switch (as in a railroad yard)
 • Quelle Drôle = What fun

• Ce n´est pás de chance =  No Luck

• Ca suffit = That´Enough

• “Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien

qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les
yeux. ”  

“Here is my secret. It is very simple: one can only see

well with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the
eye. ”

• “Connaître ce n’est pas démontrer, ni expliquer. C’est

accéder à la vision.”

“To know is not to demonstrate, nor to explain. It is

access to vision."

• “Il y a une fleur… je crois qu´elle m’a apprivoisé”

"There is a flower ... I think it tamed me"

Expressions and Quotes:

Short Summary

A French pilot in the middle of his flight back home starts

presenting technical difficulties with his plane, in order to
prevent the plain from damaging in the middle of the air, or
presenting other similar failure, he decides to stop in the
Saharan desert, away from any kind of human civilization.
While he stayed in the desert trying to fix his airplane he
meets the Little Prince, a young boy who comes from outer
space (asteroid B 612). The little prince talks with the pilot
about his adventures through multiple planets and about his
learnings and experiences, regarding the people he met and
the ideals of the big people.
Relation with the Class
Topic:
• Creativity and innocence tend to be eradicated by imposing
ideas (in the case of the Little Prince) or by denying other
to develop their own ideas (in the case of Fahrenheit 451).
Violence is not always linked to a physical or belligerent
aggression, it can be evidenced generally by segregating
and discriminating other people´s thoughts.

• Like in Fahrenheit 451, the little prince exposes the genuine

value of the individual perception someone may have
related to a specific event. When everybody is enforced to
think in the same way, such as the big people, and indirect
social tyranny emerges within the present community.
Webgraphy

• https://www.lesmotspositifs.com/blogue/16-citations-philosophiques
-du-petit-prince/

• https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/219769-voici-mon-secret-il-est-t
r-s-simple-on-ne-voit

• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/