the little prince by antoine de saint exupéry

He learns a great deal from and on earth- from the fox.

He meets interesting characters on each planet. A voyager through and through, he decides to leave his little planet- his three volcanoes, one which might be dead, and his beloved rose flower, to travel the planets. What makes him wise is curiosity, knowing he didn’t know, and the eagerness to learn from others. What makes him wise is not even particularly the knowledge he has before setting off on his journey. He is one of the two main characters he is the protagonist, the one with all the lessons to teach, and a big part of the lessons to learn himself. The little prince, the one who hardly ever answers questions but who asks questions persistently and demands answers persistently- he simply never backs down. The first thing the little prince tells him on stumbling upon him is to draw him a sheep, and this little guy, whom he would later learn never gives up when he starts- continues to repeat that request until he caves. The little prince draws him out of his shell and makes him start drawing again, and he continues drawing.

The boy only really learned to draw two things- a boa constrictor from the outside and a boa constrictor from the inside. The story ends, or more appropriately, the curtains are drawn when he reminisces about his encounters with the little prince- which he often does- 6 years later. The novel begins with a short biography of him, from when he was 6- how he was forced to give up his dreams of becoming a painter because the grown-ups just didn’t get him- they never did. A proper round character, the young man, yet, quite frankly, predictable.

He is mostly the one with all the lessons to learn, from the little prince, of course. He is almost the main character in the novel- never seen anything like it. The boy who later becomes the young man, a grown-up. Let’s start with the boy (now the young man), our eyes and ears as far as this story is concerned. Every character contributes significantly to the powerful lessons from this book. ‘ The Little Prince‘ by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is a story with lots of interesting characters, and it’s quite tasking to choose to talk about some characters and leave the others out.

The little prince by antoine de saint exupéry