TheLittlePrince

Lookatthethreedrawingsandpredictwhatthestoryisabout.

AntoinedeSaint-Exupéry(1900–1944)wasaFrenchwriterandpilot.Asayoungboy,hewasobsessedwithaeroplanes,ridinginoneforthefirsttimeattheageof12.Hespentmuchofhislifeflyingandwritingabouthisadventures.Saint-Exupéry’smostsuccessfulwork,TheLittlePrince,isoneofthebest-sellingbookseverpublished.Thestorywasprobablyinspiredbyhisplanecrashinthedesertin1935.Saint-Exupérynearlydied,andwanderedaroundforfourdaysbeforebeingrescued.In1944,Saint-ExupéryleftonawartimemissionoveroccupiedFrance,fromwhichheneverreturned.Althoughtheremainsofhisplanewerediscoveredin2000,Saint-Exupéry’sbodyhasneverbeenfound,andthecauseofhisdeathremainsunknown.

MajorCharacters:ThePilot(Narrator)Anadult,butusedtobeanimaginativechild.Heservesastheprince’sconfidantandrelaystheprincesstorytous.

MajorCharacters:TheLittlePrinceApureandinnocenttraveler.Hischildlikebehavioriscontrastedwithdifferentadultcharacters.Believesthesearchforanswersismoreimportantthantheanswersthemselves.

Chapter1

Whatsthenarratorsprofession?Whatdidthenarratorwanttobeasakid?Whydidhegiveuphisdreamcareer?Becausethegrownupsadvisedhimtoputthedrawingsawayandsticktoschool.The“grown-ups”discouragedthenarratorfrombeinganartistbecausetheycouldnotseebeyondthesimplicityofthedrawingtothetruecreativitythatlived(orperhaps,moreaccurately,nolongerlived!)inside.

Readthesentencesfromthepassageandanswerthequestions.…Ihavehadagreatmanyencounterswithagreatmanypeoplewhohavebeenconcernedwithmattersofconsequence.Andthegrown-upwouldbegreatlypleasedtohavemetsuchasensibleman.1.Whatdoestheauthorreallymeanbythesesentences?2.Howdoesthisfigureofspeechhelptoexpresstheauthorsattitude?Learni