The Little Prince Book Review

The story of The Little Prince, the aviator, pink, fox and lamb, had five million copies sold in Japan in the past year, and eleven million copies of France make the Petit Prince in the biggest bestseller of the letters. It was first published in 1943, is a very famous story of French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I wrote while staying at a hotel in New York. It has been translated into 180 languages and dialects. In appearance a book for children, it treated subjects as profound as the meaning of life, friendship and love. In this tale, Saint-Exupéry imagines himself lost in the Sahara, after a malfunction in the plane. Then there is a small extraterrestrial prince. In their conversations with him, the author reveals his own vision on human stupidity and the simple wisdom of children that most people lose when they grow up and become adults. The story is accompanied by illustrations drawn by the author. .................................................. .................................................. ........... The prince lives in the small planet, the asteroid B612, in which there are three volcanoes (two of them active and one not) and a rose. He spends his days tending his planet, and removing the baobab trees that are constantly trying to take root there. From enable grow, the trees parted their planet into pieces. The prince leaves the planet one day to hear the rest of the universe and visit other planets, each of which is inhabited by an adult who, in their own way, demonstrates how stupid that most people turn to be ''higher ''The king, who cree ruling ordering the stars because they do things that would still anyway. It represents the political ambition. The vain, who want everyone to recognize as a man worthy of admiration. It represents the vanity and selfishness of man. The drunk, drinking to forget that is ashamed of drinking. It represents a lack of human willpower. The businessman, who is always busy counting the stars who thinks possess. He plans to use them to buy more stars. Represents economic greed and ambition. The farolero, who lives in an asteroid that rotates once every minute. Long ago he was commissioned with the task of turning the bluff at night and shut it down during the day. At that time, the asteroid rotated at a speed reasonable and had time to rest. Over time, the rotation was accelerated, and refusing to leave their jobs, farolero on and off the bluff once per minute and may not ever relax. It represents loyalty and responsibility, is the only positive character of soul who knows the prince on his journey. The geographer, who spends all his time drawing maps, but never leaves his desk to explore. It represents the passion for work.