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The Little Prince


            
            
            
            
             The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery is a story adored by adults and children alike. That is what makes The Little Prince such a good and popular story. The story has so many levels of meaning that it can be taken however the reader feels it should. It might depend on their mood or age or knowledge. What makes it so great is you take it the way you want to. To a scholar who's life is about learning it might be a quest for knowledge. If you are feeling lonely and need something to cheer you up it might be about a great friendship. To a priest or rabbi it might be a religious tale. If one doesn't feel like taking it as something deep and just a child's fairy tale or simple fantasy. What matters the most is what you feel like.
             In my opinion it is a social commentary. The Little Prince is about holding on to childhood, ignorance and innocence. A social critic once said,We are born into a state of grace, it is the environment and society that corrupts us.? I think that that quote partially sums up my opinion of this book. The little price would be innocent his whole life were he not to meet the people and things he did in this tale. He would not have been able to be corrupted. I am not saying that his trip was in vain only that it did change him. .
             I believe Antoine de Saint-Exupery was voicing, or should I say writing, his distress with being an adult and the ways of the adults that surrounded him.He didn't like the way he or others were taking their childhood for nothing. People that think that they are now better that they have grown up and become mature and knowledgeable. When they have actually gotten worse, and it is some of that knowledge is pushing the decline. .
             Antoine de Saint-Exupery often refers togrown-ups?; to kids its is exactly as it seems it is talking about their parents a babysitters and teachers. He makesgrown-ups? an analogy for society. This is how most children see it there two groups kids and grown-ups.


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