March 10, 2021

Episode : The Little Prince

Cami Moncayo, 403-B.

The Little Prince, French Le Petit Prince, is a modern classic fable by the French writer Antonie de Saint- Expuréy (born on June 29 in 1900 and died on July 31 in 1944). He was an aviator and a writer.

He came from an improvised aristocratic family. In 1922 he qualified as a military pilot.In 1939, despite permanent disabilities due to serious flying accidents, he became a military reconnaissance pilot.In 1944 he took off from an airfield in Corsica to conduct a reconnaissance mission over France and never returned. Sixty years later, parts of his plane were raised from the ocean near Marseille . It had probably been shot down by an enemy fighter, though the cause of the crash may never be known.

The narrator introduces himself as a man who learned when he was a child that adults lack imagination and understanding. The narrator is a pilot who has crash-landed in a desert. When this happens he meets a very young boy who asks him for a drawing of a sheep. The pilot learns a lot of things about this boy (the little prince). He learns things like the little prince comes from the very small asteroide B-612 and struggles with the love that he has for his rose.

He also learns that this prince has traveled to a lot of other asteroides. Then the pilot tell us the adventures of the Prince on Earth.

Saint-Exupery came to the United States in 1940, after France was occupied by Germany in World War II. At this time his personal life was marked by anxiety and the weight of war, the aviator created a book that reveals the defects of adults from the eyes of a child. This was the reason why the author wrote the story.

Some curious facts about this book are that:

1."The Little Mermaid" may have inspired Saint-Exupéry to write The Little Prince.
2.The wife of the author, consuelo, inspired the Prince’s Rose.
3.The author both wrote and illustrated The Little Prince.
4.One of the main characters is never actually shown to the reader. The drawings of the pilot were added later.
5.The Little Prince has been translated into over 250 languages.

I think that this is a book that teenagers and adults can enjoy because it has a very deep meaning in every part of the story that makes you reflect a lot about life and how are you living it. Not for anything this is one of the most known books. Everyone knows who the little prince is.

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00:00:00 - The Little Prince in French Le Petit Prince is a modern classic fable by the French writer

00:00:06 - Antony de Saint-Expoit, born on June 21 in 1900 and died on July 31 in 1944.

00:00:18 - He was an aviator and writer.

00:00:21 - He came from an improvised aristocratic family.

00:00:24 - In 1922, he qualified as a military pilot.

00:00:28 - In 1939, despite permanent disabilities due to serious flying accidents, he became a military reconnaissance pilot.

00:00:39 - In 1944, he took up from an airfield in Corsica to conduct a reconnaissance mission over France and never returned.

00:00:49 - Sixty years later, parts of his plane were raised from the ocean near Marseille.

00:00:56 - It had probably been shot down by an enemy, fighter, so the cows of the crash may never be known.

00:01:04 - In this story, the narrator introduces himself as a man who learned when he was a child that adults lack imagination and understanding.

00:01:13 - The narrator is a pilot who has crash landed in a desert.

00:01:17 - When this happens, he meets a very young boy who asks him for a drawing of a ship.

00:01:23 - The pilot learns a lot of things about this boy, the little prince.

00:01:27 - He learns things like, the little prince comes from a very small asteroid, D612, and struggles with the love that he has for his rose.

00:01:38 - He also learns that this prince has traveled to a lot of other asteroids, then the pilots tell us the adventures of the little prince on earth.

00:01:48 - The author of this story came to the United States in 1940, after France was occupied by Germany in World War II.

00:01:59 - At this time, his personal life was marked by anxiety and the weight of the war.

00:02:04 - The author decided to create this book to reveal the death effects of adults from the eyes of a child.

00:02:12 - This was the reason why the author created the story.

00:02:17 - Some curious facts about this book are that the little mermaid may have inspired this author to write The Little Prince, and that the wife of the author inspired the rose, and also that the author decided to illustrate and write this story.

00:02:36 - I think that this is a very good book that everyone can enjoy because it has a very deep meaning in every part of the story and it makes you reflect a lot about your life and how are you living it. Not for anything, this is one of the most known books in all the world.

00:02:52 - Everyone knows who the little prince is.