Little Prince

Please disregard the title above, I was just being too lazy to make another graphic for the summary page. As well, since many people have been complaining about the no summary page, I'll try my best to give an update of le petit prince. As you know, I'm already 19, and close to adult. My memory of my childhood is fading. Although I think, if you have read the book, you should understand the story, no? ;)

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Le Petit Prince

The story unfolds just like any other children's book. The first thing that catches your eye is the drawing of number one, a hat. Oops, I'm sorry, it's a boa constricter digesting an elephant. How could I have become such an adult? 

The narrator, a middle-aged man, who flies a airplane, suddenly crashes onto the Sahara desert and is stranded there for quite some time. As he tries to fix his engine, he thinks he is hallucinating, when a young boy, dressed like a prince, shows up magically, laughing. The first thing that the young boy says is, "please draw me a sheep." The narrator, having long abandoned his career as a painter, tells the young boy that he cannot draw, yet after many protests by this strange boy, ends up drawing him several pictures of a sheep. One is too sickly, one looks like a ram, and the other is too weak. Finally, the narrator gives up and draws a carrying box and tells the boy, "your sheep is in that box."

The relationship between the narrator and the boy becomes almost a fantastical journey into the universe and all that is good and true. As they sleep through the cold desert nights and fight the scathing sun during the day, the narrator continuously listens to the young boy's stories as he tries to fix his engine. The boy, who we now know of as, the little prince, recounts to the narrator, his journey across not continents, but planets. He tells of kings who rule over nothing, a clown who seeks for admirers, a geographer who...