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The Little Prince
I. Introduction
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince
Overview – The Narrator Of The Story Crashed in His Plane in The Sahara Desert. With Little Food Left, He Decided To Roam the Deserts of Sahara, searching for water and food than worry. Suddenly, he was approached by the little prince, And Asks Him to Draw a Sheep. Then The Prince Says that he came from Asteriod 325 which the scientists called Asteriod B-612. The Prince Narrates His Life, how he was taking care of his home planet, not to be overrun by bad seeds which can turn into baobabs, The Prince also narrates his 6 neighbors and when he went to his last neighbor, the Geographer, he was asked to venture Earth. He accidentaly landed on the desert without any human inhabitants, and met a snake, a three-petaled flower, a fox, which The Prince befriend, and the fox told The Prince important things such as “Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. . . . It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important. . . . People have forgotten this truth” which tells that important things in life are only visible to the heart, then he met two men, a railwayman and a salesclerk.It is now the Eighth day of the narrator in the remote desert, and they set on a journey to look for a well. And The Prince, once again, told another quotation saying that water also fills our hearts. A day before The Prince’s Anniversary on landing in Earth he finished fixing his Plane. The Prince walks slowly to the place of his landing. A snake bit the Prince, who then fall in the sands quietly. Then the next day, the narrator looked for the Prince’s body in the sands. He noticed that maybe, the Prince is already back his home. And the narrator shows a desert landscape, where he and the Prince first met. And also to tell the narrator immediately if a serious, blonde, not answering any question little Prince, shows once again on that

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