The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I like this book. I remember trying to read it in French when I was a high school student. I don’t think I got very far (but I didn’t even read that many books in English back then).
It was recommended to me by my colleague as something to read to my kids and the local used bookstore had it, so I got it.
The boys followed along, but this book is really too cerebral for children. This makes it a book for adults to remind them of childhood. It is important to remember childhood.
I am sure that I got more out of reading it to them than they got out of listening to it.
The story is about devotion. When I was in college in a class on Chaucer, the professor asked us a philosophical question about whether we would like to be the one who loves more in a relationship or the one who is loved more.
I think that the story of the Little Prince and his flower with her claws is somehow related. To be honest, it’s kind of hard to figure out. I think the book more presents a problem than any answers.
Even as the book claims to be explicit, it is not easy to figure out.