The Little Prince book report

The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, is a beautiful fiction book that tells about a boy, called the Little Prince, who goes planet hopping from his planet, B612, to our very own, seeing many flaws in adults along the way. “But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...” the Little Prince said. He then meets an adult pilot that thinks differently from the grown-ups, and with him, a beautiful friendship begins. This is where the Little Prince’s testimony is told.

When the Little Prince arrives on Earth, from his planet hopping, he meets a lot of characters in the story that makes him curious. One of them is the pilot. The pilot is an adult who has a mind like the Little Prince because he sees what adults don’t see. The pilot finds true happiness in simple everyday things. They both share the same interests in everything that they do. The Little Prince then explains everything that has happened to him from the beginning, from his planet, B612, to our very own planet Earth. He says that he met many adult-like characters that don’t know how to see the beauty of the simplicity of things like the beings of Asteroid 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, and 330. He also says that he met characters like those of Asteroid 325 to 330 on Earth. As the Little Prince explains his journey to the pilot, they both find that they too had started their own together. In the end, the Little Prince finds that he has found a new friend in the pilot, and he wishes to never let that go, yet he had to say goodbye.

In the book, the Little Prince finds many flaws in adults. Many adults derive satisfaction from material things. They are always looking for new things to keep them satisfied and comfortable. The Little Prince teaches us that happiness is not what you want, but is what you already have. “The men where you live,” said the Little Prince, “raise five thousand roses in the same garden— and they do not find in it what they are looking for.” He says that adults are never happy with what they have because they say what they want is never there, but in reality, like what the Little Prince said, “… what they are looking for could be found in one single rose, or in a little water.” One just has to be contented with what they own and find their own happiness in simple things because even the most flavorless water can be savory if you’d just enjoy it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery wrote a beautiful fiction that not only entertains its readers with its smoothly written words and the author’s drawn pictures, but also teaches them that people don’t have to own more than what they already do to be happy. With its realistic characters that bring the story to life, the book paints a beautiful story for all children to enjoy and adults to reflect on. The Little Prince is truly a wonderful book.