The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery ( Animated Book Summary )
Summary
TLDRIn this video, the narrator explores 'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a novella that delves into the paradoxes of adulthood and the innocence of youth. The story follows a lonely aviator who encounters a mysterious boy, the Little Prince, and learns about love, friendship, and the importance of what truly matters in life. Through encounters with various characters across different planets, the Little Prince teaches valuable life lessons, emphasizing that the essence of life's value is found in the heart, not the eye.
Takeaways
- 📚 The story of 'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry explores the themes of adulthood's paradoxes and the loneliness of growing up.
- 👦 The narrative centers around a young prince who falls to Earth and meets a pilot, teaching him about the importance of love, friendship, and the beauty of the stars.
- 🎨 The pilot, once a lonely and imaginative child, drew a picture of a boa constrictor with an elephant in its belly, which adults failed to appreciate, reflecting the loss of childlike wonder in adulthood.
- 🌵 The Little Prince's journey begins on a small asteroid where he tends to his volcanoes and battles invasive baobab trees, symbolizing the struggle between maintaining innocence and dealing with life's challenges.
- 🌹 The prince encounters a vain rose on his asteroid, representing the complexities and sometimes burdensome nature of love.
- 🚀 After leaving his asteroid, the prince travels to various planets, meeting different adults who embody various life's follies, such as the King's loneliness for power, the drunkard's escapism, and the businessman's materialism.
- 🌍 On Earth, the prince finds himself in a desert, where he meets a snake that speaks in riddles and promises to help him return home if he ever feels too homesick.
- 🌼 The prince's discovery of a garden full of roses on Earth shatters his belief in the uniqueness of his own rose, leading to a moment of profound sadness and realization.
- 🦊 The fox introduces the concept of 'taming' to the prince, teaching him that relationships require time, ritual, and emotional investment to become meaningful.
- 💧 The prince and the pilot's search for a well in the desert symbolizes the journey to find what is truly valuable in life, often hidden beneath the surface.
- 🌠 The Little Prince's departure and the pilot's subsequent storytelling serve as a reminder that what is essential in life is invisible to the eye but felt by the heart, urging adults to reconnect with their inner child.
Q & A
What is the main theme of 'The Little Prince'?
-The main theme of 'The Little Prince' is the exploration of the paradoxes of adulthood, the importance of relationships, and the essence of what truly matters in life, often conveyed through the lens of a child's perspective.
Who is the narrator of 'The Little Prince'?
-The narrator of 'The Little Prince' is an aviator who crashes in the Sahara Desert and meets the little prince.
What is the significance of the drawing of the boa constrictor with an elephant in its belly?
-The drawing of the boa constrictor with an elephant in its belly represents the aviator's childhood imagination and creativity, which adults fail to understand, seeing it as a hat instead.
Why does the little prince leave his asteroid?
-The little prince leaves his asteroid because he grows tired of the rose's vanity and constant pestering, and he seeks to understand the world beyond his small home.
What does the little prince learn from the fox about relationships?
-The little prince learns from the fox that to tame someone means to create a unique bond and connection, making that individual special and important through the time and love invested in them.
What is the importance of the rose to the little prince?
-The rose is important to the little prince because, despite her flaws, she is unique to him due to the time and love he has invested in her, making her special.
How does the little prince's journey through different planets reflect his confusion with adults?
-The little prince's journey through different planets, meeting various eccentric characters, reflects his confusion and inability to understand the adult world's priorities and obsessions.
What does the little prince discover about the nature of love and friendship?
-The little prince discovers that love and friendship are about mutual care, understanding, and the unique connections formed through shared experiences and time spent together.
Why does the little prince find the desert beautiful?
-The little prince finds the desert beautiful because it represents the hidden value and mystery of what lies beneath the surface, similar to the precious water hidden in the desert's depths.
What is the final gift the little prince gives to the aviator before leaving?
-The final gift the little prince gives to the aviator is the knowledge that he will be among the stars, and when the aviator looks at the stars, he will remember the little prince and feel his presence.
What lesson does the aviator learn from his encounter with the little prince?
-The aviator learns the importance of imagination, creativity, and the value of what cannot be seen with the eyes but felt with the heart, as well as the significance of maintaining childlike wonder in life.
Outlines
📚 The Journey of the Little Prince
The first paragraph introduces the novella 'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a story that explores the themes of adulthood, loneliness, and the innocence of youth. It recounts the tale of an aviator who meets a young boy in the desert, the Little Prince, who has fallen from the sky. The story emphasizes the importance of love, friendship, and the beauty of the stars, which can only be truly appreciated through the eyes of a child. The aviator's past is also shared, revealing his own sense of isolation due to the lack of understanding from adults towards his creative pursuits.
🌹 The Little Prince's Encounters and Lessons
The second paragraph delves into the Little Prince's experiences on various planets, meeting a range of eccentric characters that reflect different aspects of adult life. These include a king seeking subjects, an alcoholic, a businessman obsessed with ownership, and a lamplighter stuck in a time loop. The Little Prince's journey culminates on Earth, where he encounters a snake, a flower, an echo, and a merchant, leading him to a garden of roses that challenge his belief in the uniqueness of his own rose. This realization brings sadness, but it is through meeting the Fox that he learns about the importance of forming connections and the concept of 'taming,' which teaches him about love and responsibility.
🌟 The Little Prince's Return and Life's True Values
The final paragraph concludes the story of the Little Prince, highlighting his realization of the true value of his rose and the time he invested in their relationship. It describes the Little Prince's departure from the Fox and his eventual return to his home planet with the help of the snake. The aviator, deeply moved by the Little Prince's story, shares it with the world, emphasizing the core message of the novella: the essence of life lies in the heart's experiences rather than the superficial aspects pursued by adults. The video script ends with a call to value creativity, imagination, and the heart's desires over materialistic and societal standards.
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Keywords
💡The Little Prince
💡Paradoxes of Adulthood
💡Naivety and Pureness of Youth
💡Love and Friendship
💡Baobob Seeds
💡Taming
💡Desert
💡Star
💡Imagination
💡Responsibility
💡Invisible to the Eye
Highlights
The Little Prince is a novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that explores the paradoxes of adulthood and the loneliness of growing up.
The story revolves around an aviator who finds himself in the desert with a mysterious boy, both having fallen from the sky.
The novella emphasizes the importance of the naivety and pureness of youth, teaching adults to find joy in the stars.
The Little Prince's story is about love, friendship, and matters of the heart that can only be felt, not seen.
The aviator's loneliness stems from the lack of understanding from adults who value superficial things over imagination and creativity.
The aviator's childhood drawing of a boa constrictor with an elephant inside was misunderstood by adults as a hat, illustrating the gap in perception.
The Little Prince's request for a sheep drawing and the aviator's compliance mark the beginning of their relationship.
The Little Prince comes from an asteroid with three volcanoes and baobab seeds, symbolizing the struggle between order and chaos.
A beautiful rose on the asteroid becomes a source of vanity and conflict for the Little Prince, leading to his departure.
The Little Prince's journey through space introduces him to various eccentric characters, reflecting the absurdity of adult concerns.
On Earth, the Little Prince encounters a snake who speaks in riddles and promises to help him return home if he becomes too homesick.
The discovery of a garden full of roses shatters the Little Prince's belief in the uniqueness of his own rose, leading to sadness.
The Fox teaches the Little Prince about the concept of taming, emphasizing the importance of forming deep connections and the responsibility that comes with it.
The Little Prince learns that it is the time and love invested in his rose that makes her special, not her physical appearance.
The desert's beauty, as described by the Little Prince, lies in the hidden water, a metaphor for the unseen value in life's experiences.
The Little Prince's departure and the snake's role in sending him back home symbolize the cycle of life and the acceptance of one's journey.
The aviator's renewed passion for drawing and writing after the Little Prince's departure highlights the power of imagination and connection.
The core message of The Little Prince is the reminder that the true value of things is felt with the heart, not seen with the eye.
The novella challenges the focus on materialism and logic, urging readers to prioritize love, joy, and personal connections.
Transcripts
[Music]
hello everyone and welcome to the books
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about anything and everything related to
books today we're going to tell you
about a famous story that everyone over
the world reads it's the famous novella
the little prince the low prince or la
petit prawns written by Antoine de
saint-exupery is a short novella about
the paradoxes of adulthood and the
loneliness of growing up it's a story
about an easy ater which is an old word
for Pilate who finds himself in the
desert with an unusual boy both of them
have fallen from the sky it's a story
about the naivety and pureness of youth
teaching an adult to find joy in the
Stars it's a story about love and
friendship the matters of your heart of
things that you can only feel instead of
no now once upon a time there was an
aviator who was lonely among men he was
lonely because grownups like him were
only concerned were things that didn't
matter to him at all like the size of
your houses or mathematics but he was an
imaginative soul and it's hard to wanted
to paint and draw things that could only
be seen and understood with deepness
and grown-ups never really have the time
to look at useless things like those
right one time when he was very young he
had drawn a boa constrictor which is a
snake from the Amazon forest with an
elephant in its belly to demonstrate
ferocity and danger everyone he showed
it to all the adults he showed it to saw
a hat instead and they told him to learn
more useful things like arithmetic
linguistics and science and he followed
this advice into that loneliness among
men one day while he was flying over the
Sahara Desert he crashed and woke up to
find a little boy asking him to draw a
sheep the event was simply so weird that
he had no choice but to obey alas there
was only one thing he knew how to draw
the boy rejected his drawing of an
elephant inside a snake and demanded a
sheep instead though surprised that the
boy saw the drawing for what it really
was
The Aviator drew a sheep for him to the
best of his abilities
but again the boy rejected it claiming
it was too sick and this went on and on
with the Sheep being too old or the
sheep being a ram instead finally after
the fourth rejection the frustrated
aviator drew a box with holes in it and
told the boy the sheep was inside and
this the boy accepted and that is how
the narrator of the little prince
actually came to meet the little prince
the little prince was mysterious and
elusive and also a little sad for some
reason but over time the Aviator came to
know his story bit by bit the little
prince had come from an asteroid barely
bigger than himself with three volcanoes
and hidden baobab seeds within its soil
every day the little prince would
dutifully clean his volcanoes and dig up
any sprouting baobab seeds because his
small asteroid was always in danger of
being overrun by humongous terrifying
baobab trees one day a new seed appeared
on his planet and the Prince waited and
waited for it until bloomed into a
beautiful rose unlike anything he had
ever seen
the rows for all her precious beauty was
very vain and soon became very nagging
and the man during pestering the prince
constantly about the coal and imaginary
winds at the same time bragging about
her for thorns and her beauty and the
prince had to keep on caring for her
putting up schwinn shields putting her
in a glass cage eventually the prince
grew tired of her and decided to leave
the asteroid only now too late the
little prince realized that his rose as
annoying as she was had indeed loved him
so very much she had not showed it with
her words but she had shared with him
her fragrance and her beauty too bad
the prince had been too young to
understand and appreciate her grace
and so after Lou Prince left he wandered
through space meeting curious figures
along the way on one planet he met a
grandiose King who was lonely for
someone to rule over on another an
alcoholic who drank to forget his shame
of being an alcoholic a businessman who
counted all the stars he could see to
own them without enjoying them for what
they really were a Lamplighter
on a planet where the day was one minute
long so he had of light and snuff lamp
every 30 seconds a geographer who did
not believe in recording temporary
things like flowers the little prince
travel all these different planets and
all and met all these weird people and
found himself increasingly confused with
grownups until he came to our little
planet Earth unfortunately the little
prince lada in the largest desert in the
world he didn't meet any man at first he
met a snake who spoke in riddles
the snake told him of the loneliness
among men the massiveness of planet
Earth and after lil Prince's own
innocence the snake promised to help him
one day if the low Prince grew too
homesick to send him back to the place
he came from similar to his journey
among the stars the low Prince wandered
the planet to meet a cast of curious
characters but this time they were much
more mysterious on our evelle planet
a blonde flower in the sand and echo in
the mountains a railway worker sending
travelers back and forth a merchant
selling pills to quench your thirst and
the garden full of roses just like his
own encountering this garden full of the
rose that he thought was unique to him
the lil prince was overcome with sadness
and couldn't help but cry and cry it was
then the little prince met the Fox for
the first time the Fox asked the little
prince to tame him which means to make a
connection to someone to be tamed by
someone he explained was learning to
love them while he was one Fox among a
hundred thousand just like him if he
were to be tamed by the little prince
they will learn to need each other among
all the hundred thousand men and all the
hundred thousand foxes in the world they
alone would know each other and so the
little prince decided to tame the Fox
slowly gradually day by day because
taming someone takes time and ritual the
Fox and a little prince grew to be
closer and closer the Fox previously so
bored
by the stupidity of chickens and the
regular routine of hunters slowly began
to find joy in the smallest things the
little princes footsteps as he walked
towards him and the color of wheat which
reminded him of the little princes
beautiful gold hair
when it was time for a little prince to
leave and the Fox was about to cry
because of this he came to realize
something very very important
the little prince had been tamed by his
rose who he had left on his planet he
had spent countless time much like he
had with the Fox watering her preening
her sheltering her protecting her loving
her
it was exactly this time he spent with
his rose that made her so important to
him and because he had tamed her he
would always be responsible for her
people become responsible forever for
what they tame and that is how the
little prince came to leave the Fox it
was on the eighth day of the little
prince and the Aviators meeting that he
finished telling him his story
coincidentally their water supply ran
out and the prince and the aviator took
to the desert to look for a well along
the way the little prince commented that
the desert was so beautiful because of
the precious water hidden in its debts
when they found a well the little prince
decided to give the aviator a gift
because the Aviators plane was nearly
fixed by that point and he was leaving
and you must say goodbye properly
the little prince told The Aviator that
he too was going home and that from then
on he would know that he was in the
stars and when he laughed all the stars
would laugh with him just for The
Aviator in the end on the last night
together
the little prince left the Aviator and
look for the snake he had met so long
ago the snake bit him and sent him back
home The Aviator was sad of course but
he never stopped drawing again and he
wrote this book and shared with the
world the core of the little prince is a
simple truth that a lot of us have
forgotten and only a few us ever learn
again that the true value of things can
only be felt with your heart rather than
seen with your eye like the Fox says in
the book what is essential is invisible
to the eye
all these grown-ups in this book and all
of us tend to get too focused on
quantities appearances social status
logic but underneath it all aren't we
all striving for something else isn't it
more important to be with those we love
isn't it more important to do things
that bring you joy rather than follow
the status quo isn't it more important
to know the character and personality of
someone then their salary their looks or
their house is creativity and
imagination really as unimportant as
numbers and facts and the end we
grown-ups are lacking an important part
of ourselves if we choose to ignore our
hearts
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