The author of The Little Prince is a French writer. He has a long name: Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exupé ry, usually called Exupé ry. 1900 was born in Lyon, France on June 29th, and 1944 died heroically in the air mission on July 29th. Died young, Exupé ry was a French novelist, poet and pilot. His fairy tale The Little Prince, published in 1943, is famous all over the world. His other famous novels include Flying at Night and Wonderland on Earth. Lyon-Saint-Exupé ry Airport in his hometown is named after him. In April, 2004, the wreckage of the Exupelli plane, which had been mysteriously missing for nearly 60 years, was found near the seabed of Marseille in southern France. On the 50th anniversary of his death, the French printed the portrait of him and the little prince on a 50-franc note. In March 2008, Horst Ripert, a German fighter pilot during World War II, admitted that he shot down the plane of Saint-Exupery. The famous French writer André Mourois commented: "The Little Prince contains a whole set of philosophical thoughts in its poetic sadness." "This children's book for adults contains symbolic meanings everywhere. These symbols look clear and obscure, so they are particularly beautiful. " The narrative technique of The Little Prince is the first person. According to the author, it is to show a fairy tale to adults. The outline of the fairy tale is as follows: "I" met a strange and naive little prince in the vast Sahara desert-he came from a distant little planet. He visited the planet of kings, vain people, drunkards, businessmen and geologists in space, and finally came to the earth. The little prince is a child. The child is especially gifted. He acts on instinct and is very sensitive. He can discover the essence of things through the surface. He can see the sheep in the wooden box drawn by the pilot and the elephant swallowed by the python. The encounter with the little prince made me find out how much childlike innocence he had lost and how seriously he had been conquered by the cheating world of adults: he could no longer see the sheep in the wooden box like the little prince. So, he sighed and said, "I may be a bit like those adults." I must be getting old. " After the little prince left his asteroid and visited the planet where only one resident lived, he found that all the adults were extremely lonely. So, what do these adults who think their little world is the whole universe lack? They lack something that can make them combine with each other, lack love, and lack the fox's idea of "conquering me". The only exception is the person who lights the street lamp. Even in the deserted hall, he tries his best to perform his duties. If his world was not so narrow, he might have become the little prince's friend. ) The little prince should also learn to "conquer me". The fox taught him. The fox said that a creature, even an ordinary little creature, is unique in your eyes if it conquers you, or "you are conquered by him". The center of the little prince's whole life is his flower. He watched her bloom and praised her enthusiastically. When he first saw her, he was completely immersed in her beauty and couldn't help but blurt out, "You are so beautiful!" " "But it wasn't long before he saw through this lovely little thing. She has shortcomings: vanity, pride, paranoia and a little lying. The little prince was completely disappointed with the flowers and left his planet. Here, imaginative artists reveal to us the sharp contradiction between ideal and reality, as well as the sharp contradiction between beautiful thoughts and their efforts in the imperfect material world in a simple and strong way. The little prince admitted his mistake, but it was too late. One day, he sincerely said to his friend, "I shouldn't listen to her. I should never listen to those flowers." "You should just smell them and look at them." When the little prince found five thousand roses exactly like his flowers on the ground, he was very disappointed. However, his fox friend comforted him that his flowers were unique anyway, because he had tamed her. The fox also revealed his secret to him, which, like all great thoughts, is widely circulated: "Essence is invisible with the eyes, and can only be seen clearly with the heart." He should pursue the truth with his heart. It was with his heart that he discovered the spring of life symbolized by a well in the desert. In this strange metaphor, everyone's measurement of things is out of shape: volcanoes, we think, are very big, but on the little prince's planet, poking a volcano is like poking a stove, and one of the active volcanoes can also be used for breakfast. If we stay on the little prince's asteroid 6 12 for a while, all our concepts of time will be confused. The little prince can see forty-four sunsets a day just by moving his chair. We are confused because everything is relative. What does death mean in this world? Death only means abandoning the body and appearance, rising towards a star, towards love and towards one's mission. Therefore, through the step-by-step exploration of the secret life of the little prince, "I" learned all kinds of ugliness hidden in this world, and also realized the ideal realm of pursuing sincere friendship and broad feelings. In a word, through the experience of this little prince, the work expounds the views and criticisms of different types of adults in society and puts forward some thought-provoking questions. In particular, the author praised friendship and fraternity through the mouth of the little prince, hoping that people would develop friendship and love each other. In the author's opinion, love should be as hot as the volcano on the planet where the little prince lives, and friendship should be as conscientious as the little prince to weed the roses. There is also some sadness in this work. But this is not the main thing, nor is it overwhelming. The story reached its climax, and this sadness quickly melted into joy. The little prince gave his friend a parting gift: "You will have many smiling stars." The pilot on the earth will hear his favorite baby laughing on a star in the Xinghai, so he will hear all the stars laughing. In this way, the sadness in the work loses its weight, and death loses its horror. The Little Prince is a fairy tale with unique twists and turns, poetic and philosophical writing, flashback, clear language and strong readability. Because the author runs through the whole article with love, French critics think this is a poetic fairy tale and the author's nostalgia for friendship. The Little Prince was published at its own expense in new york and France on 1943. This is the most popular fairy tale in the 20th century, which has been translated into 100 languages. This book can be seen in movies, records and even paper money. Joe Miller, who publishes the American student edition of The Little Prince, said: The Little Prince belongs to this type of book ... which is loved by both children and adults. The imagination, wisdom and emotion deliberately pursued and displayed in the works enable readers of all ages to find fun and benefits and discover new spiritual wealth at any time.