Literary Analysis about The Little Prince

3. 
ANTOINE DE
SAINT-EXUPERY
A pioneer of aviation and a
well-known French writer.
He was born in Lyon,
France, in 1900. At an
early age, he dreamed of
a life of adventure and
wanted to become a naval
officer.

5. pilot crashes his plane in
An aircraft
the Sahara Desert, far from civilization.
There, he is unexpectedly greeted by a
young boy nicknamed "the little prince." The
prince has golden hair, a loveable laugh, and
will repeat questions until they are answered.

6. While the narrator/aviator attempts to
repair his plane, the prince recounts his
life story. He begins describing his tiny
home
sized
planet
asteroid
--- a house-
known as "B-612" on
Earth. Theprince sharesthat his planet hasa
roseandthreevolcanoes.

7. The prince then shares that he has
traveled from planet to planet, meeting
different and unique individuals. Since
the prince visited six other planets, each
irrational, narrow-minded adult,
of which was inhabited by a single,
each
meant to critique an element of society.

8. The story of The Little Prince shows that people do
find the truth by seeking it with their hearts and
minds, rather than just paying attention to what they
can see on the surface.
The Little Prince is full of sad things and about
innocence. Sure, there's joy, friendship, love, and
understanding but all of that is touched by sadness,
especially once we get to the end of the book.

9. Every time the characters come closer to
understanding, they come closer to loss. Usually, it's not
until the characters say goodbye or part, that they
realize their love for one another.
The rose didn't tell the prince she loves him until they
say goodbye. Similarly, even though the fox wanted to
be tamed, he didn't know the full pleasure or pain of it
until the prince left him. And the narrator/aviator is no
exception. By the time the narrator writes down his
story, it's been six years since the prince left him
behind. Although he can hear his friend's laughter in the
stars, that's not the same as hearing it in person.

10. It is about the paradoxes of adulthood and the
loneliness of growing up. It’s a story about the
naivety and pureness of youth teaching an
adult to find joy in simple things. It explores
love, friendship, and loss. The Little Prince
makes observations about life, adults and
human nature.

12. •The Aviator: The narrator of the novel, is an aviator by
a professional who has crash-landed in some part of the
Sahara desert where he meets the Little Prince.
•The Little Prince: The Little Prince is the protagonist
and the central character around whom the entire story
revolves. The child-like character is a very simple, easy-
to-deal, and naïve person.
•The fox: The fox is important as the fox makes the
prince realizes that the worth-loving things are invisible.
The Characters

13. •The Rose: The Rose also becomes a character when it
comes into contact with the Little Prince. The Little Prince has
personified the rose as a female having fickleness with
temporary beauty and flirtatious nature.
•The King: A king with no subjects, who only issues
orders that can be followed, such as commanding the
sun to set at sunset.
•The Vain Man: A man who only wants the praise which
comes from admiration and being the most-admirable
person on his otherwise uninhabited planet.
•The Drunk Man: A drunkard who drinks to forget the
shame of drinking.

14. •The Entrepreneur: A businessman who is blinded by the
beauty of the stars and instead, endlessly counts and
catalogs them in order to "own" them all.
•The Lamplighter: A lamplighter on a planet so small, a full
day lasts a minute. He wastes his life blindly following orders
to extinguish and relight the lamp-post every 30 seconds to
correspond with his planet's day and night.
•The Geographer: An elderly geographer who has never
been anywhere, or seen any of the things he records,
providing a caricature of specialization in the contemporary
world.
•The Snake: The snake makes him realize that he can send
the Little Prince back home through his poison.

15. The story begins and ends in the Sahara
Desert. Some other events take place on the
little prince’s home planet, and on other planets
visited by him on his way to the Earth.
The Setting/s

16. Conflict
An internal conflict
The Little Prince’s child-like perspectives
contradict to what is really going on in the adult
world.
Climax
The climax happens when the little prince realizes the
importance of his rose, and this happens after the fox
tells him his secret. It clears everything up for the little
prince.

17. Tone and Mood
Tone: solemn, sad, thoughtful
Mood: melancholy, contemplative,
beautiful
Theme
Love, friendship, enlightenment through
exploration, appreciation of little things,
and loss.

19. At the beginning and the end part of the
story, the aviator/ narrator is using the
first person point of view in telling the
story
When the little prince embarked on
his adventures on different planets,
the narrator narrated it in the third
person- omniscient point of view.
Point of View

20. The Use of Figures of Speech
Imagery
Imagery is used to make readers perceive
things involving their five senses.
Chapter 2

21. Hyperbole
It is an extreme exaggeration (not to be taken
literally) to make a point or show emphasis.
Chapter 6

22. Personification
-The attribution of a personal nature or human
characteristics to something nonhuman, or the
representation of an abstract quality in human
form
Chapter 8

23. Simile
When two dissimilar objects or concepts are compared
with one another through the use of “like” or “as.”
Chapter 19

24. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.“
-The Fox (The Little Prince, 1943)