Characteristics of the little prince from the book "The Little Prince". What characterizes The Little Prince? The little prince about friends

The image of the Little Prince. The Little Prince is a symbol of a person - a wanderer in the universe, looking for the hidden meaning of things and his own life. The soul of the Little Prince is not shackled by the ice of indifference and deadness. Therefore, a true vision of the world is revealed to him: he learns the value of true friendship, love and beauty. This is the theme of the “vigilance” of the heart, the ability to “see” with the heart, to understand without words. The little prince does not immediately comprehend this wisdom. He leaves his own planet, not knowing that what he will look for on different planets will be so close - on his home planet. The little prince is a man of few words - he says very little about himself and his planet. Only little by little, from random, casually dropped words, does the pilot learn that the baby has arrived from a distant planet, “which is the size of a house” and is called asteroid B-612. The little prince tells the pilot about how he is fighting with the baobab trees, which take such deep and strong roots that they can tear apart his little planet. You need to weed out the first shoots, otherwise it will be too late, “this is a very boring job.” But he has a “firm rule”: “...get up in the morning, wash your face, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order.” People must take care of the purity and beauty of their planet, together protect and decorate it, and prevent all living things from perishing. The little prince from Saint-Exupery's fairy tale cannot imagine his life without the love of gentle sunsets, without the sun. “I once saw the sun set forty-three times in one day!” - he says to the pilot. And a little later he adds: “You know... when it becomes very sad, it’s good to watch the sun go down...” The child feels like a part of the natural world, and he calls on adults to unite with it. The kid is active and hardworking. Every morning he watered Rose, talked with her, cleaned the three volcanoes on his planet so that they would give more heat, pulled out weeds... And yet he felt very lonely. In search of friends, in the hope of finding true love, he sets off on his journey through alien worlds. He is looking for people in the endless desert that surrounds him, because in communication with them he hopes to understand himself and the world around him, to gain the experience that he so lacked. Visiting six planets in succession, the Little Prince on each of them encounters a certain life phenomenon embodied in the inhabitants of these planets: power, vanity, drunkenness, pseudo-learning... The images of the heroes of A. Saint-Exupery's fairy tale “The Little Prince” have their own prototypes. The image of the Little Prince is both deeply autobiographical and, as it were, removed from the adult author-pilot. He was born out of longing for little Tonio, who was dying within himself - a descendant of an impoverished noble family, who was called in the family “Sun King” for his blond (at first) hair, and in college was nicknamed Lunatic for his habit of looking at the starry sky for a long time. The phrase “The Little Prince” itself appears, as you probably noticed, in “Planet of People” (like many other images and thoughts). And in 1940, in between battles with the Nazis Exupery I often drew a boy on a piece of paper - sometimes winged, sometimes riding on a cloud. Gradually, the wings will be replaced by a long scarf (which, by the way, the author himself wore), and the cloud will become asteroid B-612.

"The Little Prince" is rightfully considered one of the masterpieces of world literature. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the author of this amazing philosophical parable, dressed in the form of a fairy tale, masterfully conveyed the ideas of universal human truths, once again recalling humanity, kindness and love.

The author managed to realize his plan through the image of the main character - the Little Prince. It was no coincidence that the main character was portrayed as a child, since it is the child’s perception of the world, in the author’s opinion, that fits most harmoniously into the model of the Universe. A child, who does not know much, nevertheless sometimes has greater wisdom and insight than most adults. The author emphasizes this idea with the Little Prince’s repeated phrases “Adults are strange people.”

The image of the Little Prince is an ideal image of the human soul. He embodies all the best traits that can be inherent in a person - openness, purity, sublimity above the material, wisdom. At the same time, the Little Prince is lonely. His planet is so small that there is barely enough room for anyone else. But in fact, the planet of the Little Prince is a symbol of the inner world of man. From this position, the words of the Little Prince take on special meaning: “There is such a firm rule. Get up in the morning, wash your face, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order.” They characterize the prince as a person capable of purifying his thoughts and putting things in order, primarily in his soul.

This thin, lonely, vulnerable and dreamy child, who loves to watch sunsets, worries about the fate of a capricious flower and believes that he still has a lot to learn, truly opens up after learning his love for Rose and friendship with the Fox. It was they who brought into his soul that necessary touch of the ability to live for another, caring for him and not demanding anything in return, which made his already pure soul the quintessence of an ideal human essence, which each of us should strive for. After all, only love and devotion can cure loneliness and help life find meaning.

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This happened in the Sahara. Something broke in the plane's engine: the pilot had to fix it or die, because there was only enough water left for a week. At dawn, the pilot was awakened by a thin voice - a tiny baby with golden hair, who somehow ended up in the desert, asked him to draw a lamb for him. The amazed pilot did not dare refuse, especially since his new friend was the only one who was able to see the boa constrictor swallowing the elephant in the first drawing. It gradually became clear that the Little Prince had come from a planet called “asteroid B-612” - of course, the number is only necessary for boring adults who adore numbers.

The whole planet was the size of a house, and the Little Prince had to take care of it: every day he cleaned three volcanoes - two active and one extinct, and also weeded out baobab sprouts. The pilot did not immediately understand what danger the baobabs posed, but then he guessed and, in order to warn all the children, he drew a planet where there lived a lazy person who did not weed out three bushes on time. But the Little Prince always put his planet in order. But his life was sad and lonely, so he loved to watch the sunset - especially when he was sad. He did this several times a day, simply moving the chair after the sun. Everything changed when a wonderful flower appeared on his planet: it was a beauty with thorns - proud, touchy and simple-minded. The little prince fell in love with her, but she seemed capricious, cruel and arrogant to him - he was too young then and did not understand how this flower illuminated his life. And so the Little Prince cleaned out his volcanoes for the last time, pulled out the sprouts of the baobabs, and then said goodbye to his flower, who only at the moment of farewell admitted that he loved him.

He went on a journey and visited six neighboring asteroids. The king lived on the first one: he wanted to have subjects so much that he invited the Little Prince to become a minister, and the little one thought that adults were a very strange people. On the second planet lived an ambitious man, on the third a drunkard, on the fourth a business man, and on the fifth a lamplighter. All the adults seemed extremely strange to the Little Prince, and he only liked the Lamplighter: this man remained faithful to the agreement to light the lanterns in the evenings and turn off the lanterns in the mornings, although his planet had shrunk so much that day and night changed every minute. Don't have so little space here. The little prince would have stayed with the Lamplighter, because he really wanted to make friends with someone - besides, on this planet you could admire the sunset one thousand four hundred and forty times a day!

On the sixth planet there lived a geographer. And since he was a geographer, he was supposed to ask travelers about the countries from which they came in order to record their stories in books. The little prince wanted to talk about his flower, but the geographer explained that only mountains and oceans are recorded in books, because they are eternal and unchanging, and flowers do not live long. Only then did the Little Prince realize that his beauty would soon disappear, and he left her alone, without protection and help! But the resentment had not yet passed, and the Little Prince moved on, but he only thought about his abandoned flower.

The seventh was Earth - a very difficult planet! Suffice it to say that there are one hundred and eleven kings, seven thousand geographers, nine hundred thousand businessmen, seven and a half million drunkards, three hundred and eleven million ambitious people - a total of about two billion adults. But the Little Prince made friends only with the snake, the Fox and the pilot. The snake promised to help him when he bitterly regretted his planet. And the Fox taught him to be friends. Anyone can tame someone and become their friend, but you always need to be responsible for those you tame. And the Fox also said that only the heart is vigilant - you cannot see the most important thing with your eyes. Then the Little Prince decided to return to his rose, because he was responsible for it. He went into the desert - to the very place where he fell. That’s how they met the pilot. The pilot drew him a lamb in a box and even a muzzle for the lamb, although he previously thought that he could only draw boa constrictors - outside and inside. The little prince was happy, but the pilot became sad - he realized that he, too, had been tamed. Then the Little Prince found a yellow snake, whose bite kills in half a minute: she helped him, as she promised. The snake can return anyone to where he came from - she returns people to the earth, and returned the Little Prince to the stars. The kid told the pilot that it would only look like death in appearance, so there is no need to be sad - let the pilot remember him while looking at the night sky. And when the Little Prince laughs, it will seem to the pilot that all the stars are laughing, like five hundred million bells.

The pilot repaired his plane, and his comrades rejoiced at his return. Six years have passed since then: little by little he calmed down and fell in love with looking at the stars. But he is always overcome with excitement: he forgot to draw a strap for the muzzle, and the lamb could eat the rose. Then it seems to him that all the bells are crying. After all, if the rose is no longer in the world, everything will become different, but not a single adult will ever understand how important this is.

"The Little Prince" is the most famous work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Published in 1943 as a children's book. The drawings in the book were made by the author himself and are no less famous than the book itself. It is important that these are not illustrations, but an organic part of the work as a whole: the author himself and the characters of the fairy tale constantly refer to the drawings and even argue about them. “After all, all adults were children at first, only few of them remember this” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from the dedication to the book. During the meeting with the author, the Little Prince is already familiar with the drawing “Elephant in a Boa Constrictor.” The story about “The Little Prince” itself arose from one of the plots of “Planet of People”. This is the story of the accidental landing of the writer himself and his mechanic Prevost in the desert.

Features of the genre of the work. The need for deep generalizations prompted Saint-Exupery to turn to the genre of parables. The lack of specific historical content, the conventions characteristic of this genre, its didactic conditionality allowed the writer to express his views on the moral problems of the time that worried him. The parable genre becomes the vehicle for Saint-Exupéry's reflections on the essence of human existence. A fairy tale, like a parable, is the oldest genre of oral folk art. It teaches a person to live, instills optimism in him, and affirms faith in the triumph of goodness and justice. Real human relationships are always hidden behind the fantastic nature of fairy-tale plots and fiction. Like a parable, moral and social truth always triumphs in a fairy tale. The fairy tale-parable “The Little Prince” was written not only for children, but also for adults who have not yet completely lost their childish impressionability, their childishly open view of the world and the ability to fantasize. The author himself had such a childishly sharp vision. We determine that “The Little Prince” is a fairy tale by the fairy-tale features present in the story: the hero’s fantastic journey, fairy-tale characters (Fox, Snake, Rose). The work of A. Saint-Exupery “The Little Prince” belongs to the genre of a philosophical fairy tale-parable. Theme and problems of the fairy tale. Saving humanity from the coming inevitable catastrophe is one of the main themes of the fairy tale “The Little Prince”. This poetic tale is about the courage and wisdom of an artless child’s soul, about such important “non-childish” concepts as life and death, love and responsibility, friendship and loyalty. The ideological concept of the fairy tale.“Loving does not mean looking at each other, it means looking in the same direction” - this thought determines the ideological concept of the fairy tale. “The Little Prince” was written in 1943, and the tragedy of Europe in World War II and the writer’s memories of defeated, occupied France leave their mark on the work. With his bright, sad and wise tale, Exupery defended undying humanity, a living spark in the souls of people. In a certain sense, the story was the result of the writer’s creative path, his philosophical and artistic comprehension. Only an artist is able to see the essence - the inner beauty and harmony of the world around him. Even on the lamplighter’s planet, the Little Prince remarks: “When he lights a lantern, it’s as if one more star or flower is being born. And when he turns off the lantern, it’s as if a star or a flower is falling asleep. Great activity. It’s really useful because it’s beautiful.” The main character speaks to the inner side of beauty, and not to its outer shell. Human work must have meaning, and not simply turn into mechanical actions. Any business is useful only when it is internally beautiful. Features of the tale's plot. Saint-Exupery took as its basis the traditional fairy tale plot (Prince Charming, because of unhappy love, leaves his father's house and wanders along endless roads in search of happiness and adventure. He tries to gain fame and thereby conquer the unapproachable heart of the princess.), but reinterprets it in a different way. to his own, even ironically. His handsome prince is just a child, suffering from a capricious and eccentric flower. Naturally, there is no talk of a happy ending with a wedding. In his wanderings, the Little Prince meets not with fairy-tale monsters, but with people bewitched, as if by an evil spell, by selfish and petty passions. But this is only the external side of the plot. Despite the fact that the Little Prince is a child, a true vision of the world is revealed to him, inaccessible even to an adult. And the people with dead souls that the main character meets on his way are much more terrible than fairy-tale monsters. The relationship between the prince and Rose is much more complex than the relationship between princes and princesses from folk tales. After all, it is for the sake of Rose that the Little Prince sacrifices his material shell - he chooses physical death. The story has two storylines: the narrator and the related theme of the world of adults and the line of the Little Prince, the story of his life. Features of the fairy tale composition. The composition of the work is very unique. The parabola is a basic component of the structure of a traditional parable. "The Little Prince" is no exception. It looks like this: the action takes place in a specific time and specific situation. The plot develops as follows: there is a movement along a curve, which, having reached the highest point of intensity, returns again to the starting point. The peculiarity of such plot construction is that, returning to the starting point, the plot takes on a new philosophical and ethical meaning. A new point of view on the problem finds a solution. The beginning and end of the story “The Little Prince” relate to the hero’s arrival on Earth or the departure of the Earth, the pilot and the Fox. The little prince again flies to his planet to care for and raise the beautiful Rose. The time that the pilot and the prince - an adult and a child - spent together, they discovered a lot of new things about each other and in life. Having parted, they took pieces of each other with them, they became wiser, learned the other’s world and their own, only from the other side. Artistic features of the work. The story has very rich language. The author uses a lot of amazing and inimitable literary techniques. In its text you can hear the melody: “...And at night I like to listen to the stars. Like five hundred million bells...” Its simplicity is childlike truth and accuracy. Exupery’s language is full of memories and reflections about life, about the world and, of course, about childhood: “...When I was six years old... I once saw an amazing picture...” or: “...For six years now, how my friend left me with the lamb.” The style and special, unique mystical manner of Saint-Exupery is a transition from image to generalization, from parable to morality. The language of his work is natural and expressive: “laughter is like a spring in the desert”, “five hundred million bells” It would seem that ordinary, familiar concepts suddenly acquire a new original meaning in him: “water”, “fire”, “friendship”, etc. d. Many of his metaphors are equally fresh and natural: “they (volcanoes) sleep deep underground until one of them decides to wake up”; the writer uses paradoxical combinations of words that you won’t find in ordinary speech: “children should be very lenient towards adults”, “if you go straight and straight, you won’t get far...” or “people no longer have enough time to learn anything " The narrative style of the story also has a number of features. This is a confidential conversation between old friends - this is how the author communicates with the reader. We feel the presence of an author who believes in goodness and reason, soon when life on earth will change. We can talk about a peculiar melody of the narrative, sad and thoughtful, built on soft transitions from humor to serious thoughts, on halftones, transparent and light, like watercolor illustrations of a fairy tale, created by the writer himself and being an integral part of the artistic fabric of the work. The phenomenon of the fairy tale “The Little Prince” is that, written for adults, it has firmly entered the circle of children’s reading.

The Little Prince is the central character of the fairy tale. The action takes place in the Sahara Desert "a thousand miles from any inhabited land." The fairy tale, written for children, became so widely known due to the exceptional poetic atmosphere created in it, and the fact that the fairy tale was addressed by the author not only to children, but also to “adults who remained children.” The plane crashed in the desert, the situation is hopeless, and then M. p. appears - a boy, it is unknown how he ended up in this deserted desert. He talks with the pilot and asks him: “Please... Draw me a lamb!” - but none of the lambs painted by Saint-Exupery suits him. After all, the planet from which he flew, taking advantage of the “birds of passage”, is so small... There are only three volcanoes on it, which must be cleaned daily so that they do not smoke, and, most importantly, his beloved Rose blooms under a glass cover. Rose is proud, capricious, “the only one in the world.” “Planet of the King”, “Planet of the Drunkard”, “Planet of the Lantern Lighter”, “Planet of the Geographer” - each contains stages of symbolic “knowledge of the world” for M. p. For example, on planet Earth, M. learns the concept of death. It should be treated stoically, this is taught to M. by the wise Snake. You just have to look at the starry sky and think that there, among the star dust, there is a star of the friend who left you. “His body was too heavy,” he left it as an unnecessary shell on Earth and freely ascended in spirit to the stars.” One of the central episodes of the fairy tale is M. p.’s acquaintance with the Fox, who tells him: “You must tame me,” “After all, you can only know those things that you manage to tame,” “You need patience.” The Fox's secret is simple: you can see and understand well only with your heart. The rest is hidden from human eyes. “The time you spent for your Rose is what makes her so meaningful to you.”

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Reading the works of A. de Saint-Exupery, you feel more acutely the beauty of the world and the power of human attraction to brotherhood. The writer and pilot died three weeks before the liberation of his native France (1944) - he did not return to base from a combat mission, but his books continue...