The Little Prince小王子英文PPT.ppt

——Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince), first published in 1943, is a novella and the most famous work of the French writer and pioneering aviator (飞行员先驱) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900.6.29-1944.7.31)安东尼·德·圣-埃克苏佩里 He was a French writer and aviator(飞行员）. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his books about aviation adventures, including Night Flight , Wind, Sand and Stars. He liked taking adventure and was the pioneer of using flight to send message to the mountain and desert. In 1944,he disappeared in a mission flying across a desert. It has been a legend in the literary history of French. 《The Little Prince》tells a story about a boy. He?lives?on a?small planet. He is the only person of the planet. He is a lonely prince. Fortunately, a beautiful rose came in his life. They loved each other.  But one day, he had some quarrel with his rose. He left his planet and started traveling. He went to many planets and met many different people.  He passed through various stars, afterwards, he arrived the Earth, He and the author met one another in the desert, they gradually become friends. Finally, he returned to his own star. In the travel, the young prince saw all the forms of person confused in the society : The King- always wants to control someone. A conceited（自负的）man-just wants others to admire himself. The drunkard- drinks because he wants to forget the shame of drinking. The businessman-only likes calculating the numbers of money . …… From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd. They do not know what they want. They are busy through out the day, such as groups of flies without a soul. They pursue happiness, but always push away happiness rudely. On the Earth,he met a fox .The fox taught the prince how to love and told him that he was responsible for his lover. The prince understood that he should be responsi