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The book The Little Prince by writer, poet and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery has delighted readers of all ages and continues to fascinate and enthral until today
The story draws on Saint-Exupery’s own experiences as a pilot who crashed his plane in the desert in 1935, but in the novella he recounts this moment as involving a meeting with a small and surprising interlocutor
Much of the book consists of their conversations and of the narrator’s experiences of being reminded through the dialogues with the little prince what he had lost in becoming adult
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The book The Little Prince by writer, poet and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (published in 1943) has delighted readers of all ages and continues to fascinate and enthral until today. Since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of a boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly They always need to have things explained. He was advised to refrain from drawing boas from the inside or the outside and to focus instead on geography, history, mathematics and literacy. In his very first encounter with the little prince after the plane crash, the tiny person asks him to please draw a sheep, with no reason or explanation for his curious request. The novella is a potent meditation on imagination and the ways in which it is expressed, communicated and evaluated, as well as being a poignant reminder that growing up has http://www.rw.org.za
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