英美文学 谭淑明.docx

The Little Prince13英语1班 TanThe Little Prince is a story about love and life. It published in 1943 and written by a French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The extraordinarily imaginative words capture innumerable grown-up’s and children’s hearts as well as the authors wishes that is back to innocence. As the book said ,the water on the heart is beneficial, and little prince can make people feel warm and fresh. It tells a story both beautiful and sad : a little prince who lives in a small planet alone has a proud rose who thinks itself is the only flower of that kind. After a quarrel with the rose the little prince decides to travel,trying to find a way to relief loneliness and sorrow. During his journey, he visited several planets, and had conversations with their inhabitants, including a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer, from whom he found, in bewilderment, how unreasonable and meaningless the world of grown-ups is. My favorite quotes from The Little Prince is: “You know — one loves the sunset, when one is so sad…” ,sunset means that an old days will soon beover, a new day is coming and all the things that make us sad and upset will break up like a wisp of smoke. Life is full of up and down, if we can act like the little prince, face to our life positive and all the unhappy things will go away. The next sentence is:“If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, Somewhere, my flower is there… But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened… And you think that is not important!” which mean that if someone think that all the things is important to him or her, when the things seems important to him or her is lost ,one will find that it is not important at all. So,if you really love something or a person, please cherish it, because you never know w