☯Emily Ginder
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Many reviewers say this book has deep meanings, but not one person has indicated what those deep meanings are. What do you think the author was trying to tell the reader?
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Sandra
There are many themes in the book: (e.g., People tend to become less creative and imaginative as they grow into adulthood. Most adults are preoccupied with things of little real value.) For me, one of the most important themes is that we give purpose and meaning to our lives through the relationships (especially of love and friendship) we form. The Little Prince's rose is unique and more important to him than all the other roses because he cares for it and takes responsibility for it. After he tames (a metaphor for forming a relationship) the fox, it, likewise, becomes different to him from all the other foxes, and he feels responsible for it.
Karine Boyadjian
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Daniela
Following the idea of the previous reviewer, this is what I thought, but I sincerely respect and think you have the will to read my ideas and have the risk of modifying yours, but this is what I learned from the book.
I think he wanted to make conscience about how kids are not naturally polluted by prejudice, vanity, greed, and other sins like most adults are. He wants us to remember and bring back that piece of being into our lives. To question what surrounds us and find the true meaning of what we do on Earth. I think the main idea is that things are what we want them to be.
I think he wanted to make conscience about how kids are not naturally polluted by prejudice, vanity, greed, and other sins like most adults are. He wants us to remember and bring back that piece of being into our lives. To question what surrounds us and find the true meaning of what we do on Earth. I think the main idea is that things are what we want them to be.
Manny
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Lyden Orbase
That there are no restrictions on how we interpret the metaphors in the book. The reviewers may tell us that this is not simply a book for children, because more adults can understand its profundity. But the reviewers will not give their interpretations for those "deep meanings" because they do not want to restrict the readers to have their own ideas.
Ynnah Delos Santos
"All adults were children once, but some have forgotten". This book made me remember what is it like to be a child, it made me realize just how many things I have forgotten. It made me realize how the little things can be so beautiful and important. "The most important things are invisible to the eyes"
Say
Life is about who we love and who we connect to... rather than the surface.... if you manage to connect to that person beyond the surface, they will stay with you always.
Sumit Kumar
“Where are the men?” the little prince at last took up the conversation
again. “It is a little lonely in the desert. . . ”
“It is also lonely among men,” the snake said.”
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again. “It is a little lonely in the desert. . . ”
“It is also lonely among men,” the snake said.”
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Sunnykimmy
The main message I believe is that "what is essential is invisible to the eye". I haven't read the book yet, but I saw the movie and the story highlights a lot of different human beings. All with a different focus, a different driving force/need. The one whose main focus is vanity. The need to be admired. Another whose main focus is accumulation. The need for more at the expense of others.
All these people chose something to focus on, something they believed was essential. But the author tells you that what is essential can't be seen. I think his focus is on experiences. Experiencing life and people to the fullest. And not losing sight of the child within when you grow up. The child that's full of wonder instead of jaded and cynical as a lot of grownups are.
It's all about perspective, seeing the world with new eyes. And enjoying the moments and the people you're sharing them with while they're here. And cherishing that even when they are gone.
I think it's also about letting go. Of the need to have everything figured out, the need to understand everything and just enjoying things as they are.
It's about learning and forgiving yourself for what you didn't know when you didn't know it because you hadn't learned it yet.
It's about being open to new things and people.
Ultimately, it's about life and living it to the best of your ability.
All these people chose something to focus on, something they believed was essential. But the author tells you that what is essential can't be seen. I think his focus is on experiences. Experiencing life and people to the fullest. And not losing sight of the child within when you grow up. The child that's full of wonder instead of jaded and cynical as a lot of grownups are.
It's all about perspective, seeing the world with new eyes. And enjoying the moments and the people you're sharing them with while they're here. And cherishing that even when they are gone.
I think it's also about letting go. Of the need to have everything figured out, the need to understand everything and just enjoying things as they are.
It's about learning and forgiving yourself for what you didn't know when you didn't know it because you hadn't learned it yet.
It's about being open to new things and people.
Ultimately, it's about life and living it to the best of your ability.
Greg
Emily, I have no idea. The last paragraph in this book begins with "It's all a great mystery."
Mari
I think the central message is uniqueness. What makes a thing unique and important. Is something important because of the qualities it contains, or does something become important by the meaning we put on it. But thats just one of many things contained in the story. Another is learning. Do we learn by experience, or does the experience simply bring out what we knew all along? Its not a story meant to provide answers. its a story meant to pose questions that lead to more questions. The author isn't trying to tell the reader anything. The author is trying to get the reader to start asking questions.
Krandall
A thing of beauty doesn't need to have a message. Like the Little Prince's flower, it may be enough simply to experience this story, to take it inside you respectfully and let it live in you and do its work in silence. To paraphrase Ezra Pound, sometimes a flower is simply a flower. Its beauty is all we need to"know" about it. Not everything needs to be"explained".
Harsha
It's a pretty interesting question, and the answers were too. I guess each reader reads a different book.
This is what I gleaned from The little prince: As we grow up, our opinions and intentions are inevitably colored by the norms of the society. In an adults parochial view, you often tend to miss the little important things that matter the most. This book, to me, is a soft pull towards freedom of thought that is not dictated by my environment.
This is what I gleaned from The little prince: As we grow up, our opinions and intentions are inevitably colored by the norms of the society. In an adults parochial view, you often tend to miss the little important things that matter the most. This book, to me, is a soft pull towards freedom of thought that is not dictated by my environment.
Rodania
The little prince is the child we used to be. We become materialist adults and forget about the joy of life. The snake (life) killed the innocent child inside us, but in our mind we now he is still living in our past (his own plant ).
Myles
Check out this excellent article in the New Yorker Magazine - available online - https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-...
binie
one of my favorite lines was "but eyes are blind, you have to see with your heart", and this line is what one of the many messages
Amy Butler
I think the main idea we get from the latter half of the book at least is the quote 'what is essential is invisible to the eye'. You can't see how much you care about someone, or aspects of their personalities that you love, What the author is trying to tell us is to stop fussing about material and economic things that we think are important, and instead focus on the connections we make in life.
~*Winnie*~
Don't forget you were a child first. Don't forget those feelings of youth. Those feelings of safety and protection and nurturing. Before work, the responsibilities, the stresses of your life now, think back to when you were child, remember that that was a huge part of who you were and possibly where most of your fondest memories are stored. You should cherish that spark that lit up your childhood and have it coexist with who you are now.
Mata
Well it is about the main problem which man faces: One wants to have a rose (girl) and a sheep (friend). Yet one does not wish for the sheep to "eat" the rose. Need i spell it out more? Main theme of the book is how does one make sure to have both a hoe and a bro whilst avoiding betrayal from both of them with each other. And ofc this is even more important when one has special connection with each. Your special girl and your special friend, have them both but keep them seperated and/or faithful at the same time. That is why at the end, main question when looking at the stars is what has happened on a little planet with those two, has one sheep eaten one rose or not.
kinga
I understood this book in a way that as we grow older and get pushed into the world, our dreams and passions are being restrickted and shut down by other people. We view our life in a more realistical way from the responsibilities put down by e.g. parents and guardians who would be hateful towards a child always-seeking answers and questions mind and tell them to grow up. So, with age this childlike innocence dies, and we become these adults ourselves (not everyone of course).
When the pilot's plane crashes , he comes back to the memories of his childhood and reminisces about the past where his mind was wildfree. Then, the Little Prince isn't in fact a physical person that just randomly popped up on the desert, but the little boy the pilot once was. Meeting him (Little Prince/ his inner child) made the pilot survive throughout the book on a lonely desert with his imagination, and nurturing this side of him that he forgot even existed.
When the pilot's plane crashes , he comes back to the memories of his childhood and reminisces about the past where his mind was wildfree. Then, the Little Prince isn't in fact a physical person that just randomly popped up on the desert, but the little boy the pilot once was. Meeting him (Little Prince/ his inner child) made the pilot survive throughout the book on a lonely desert with his imagination, and nurturing this side of him that he forgot even existed.
Larrry G
well - there is a well
IvanOpinion
To me, the meanings outlined in other answers to this question are certainly there, but I'm surprised that adults find them profound. The book seems profound in the same way that Aesop's Fables are profound: yes, slow and steady does sometimes win the race, but I'm not sure I need to re-read the Tortoise and the Hare to appreciate that.
But yeah, I know what some of you are thinking: I'm only saying this because I am just one of the 'big people' and, as the author points out, they are too cynical to appreciate simple truths. Maybe, but the author's use of this argument reminded me of what the tailors told the Emperor and his courtiers about the new clothes they sold him.
But yeah, I know what some of you are thinking: I'm only saying this because I am just one of the 'big people' and, as the author points out, they are too cynical to appreciate simple truths. Maybe, but the author's use of this argument reminded me of what the tailors told the Emperor and his courtiers about the new clothes they sold him.
ηιβα αλη
- Kids are generally smart, they keep throwing unexpected & deep questions, so critical and thoughtful.
- Keep your kids connected to the nature, let them observe & questioning everything.
- Don't give up just because people don't understand you or can't get your point, keep doing whatever you love and improve it.
- Keep your kids connected to the nature, let them observe & questioning everything.
- Don't give up just because people don't understand you or can't get your point, keep doing whatever you love and improve it.
Liusmiler323
This book is full of wisdom, all told through a little prince's story.
The most touching point for me is the moment they find the well with their heart. Please allow me to translate the most touching words after finding the well into Chinese:
1. " Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arm. It was good for the heart, like a present." 井水的甘甜，来自于沙漠星空下披星戴月的跋涉、来自于井口滑轮欢快的转动声、来自于挥动手臂所付出的能量。于口于心，这些都是最珍贵的礼物。
2. "The men raise five thousand roses in the same garden, and they do not find in it what they are looking for. And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water."纵有五千玫瑰，世人仍未寻得所需。其所寻者，实已在一花一露之中。
The most touching point for me is the moment they find the well with their heart. Please allow me to translate the most touching words after finding the well into Chinese:
1. " Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arm. It was good for the heart, like a present." 井水的甘甜，来自于沙漠星空下披星戴月的跋涉、来自于井口滑轮欢快的转动声、来自于挥动手臂所付出的能量。于口于心，这些都是最珍贵的礼物。
2. "The men raise five thousand roses in the same garden, and they do not find in it what they are looking for. And yet what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water."纵有五千玫瑰，世人仍未寻得所需。其所寻者，实已在一花一露之中。
Nemisha Bastakoti
there are people we love but they will not always be with us
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Frankie Nguyen
I think it calls for the children rights. Children are creative, young, potential and even possess mature thoughts. It is our prejudice to stop their dreams and coerce them to follow what we draw for them.
Let they dream.
Antonie has written about children voice.
children rights.
human rights.
Let they dream.
Antonie has written about children voice.
children rights.
human rights.
Murteza Zargar
i will write about this deep meanings so soon.
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