The Fox
The Fox meets the Little Prince and asks him to tame him and to make him understand the nature of life and the true meaning of love. The fox, like a wise man, nudges the young prince and tells him, "Only with the heart can you see clearly. Substance cannot be seen with the eyes." And by creating a taming relationship between the two of them, the young prince realizes that love is a responsibility.
Seeing that his rose is unique because he has paid for his rose. The fox is a symbol of wisdom, and the presence of the fox allows the young prince to see that his rose is different from the roses in the rose garden, and to feel the true meaning of love.
Roses
Roses, indisputably, are a symbol of love. The love between the little prince and the rose is like a new interpretation of love by the author. From the beginning of the encounter between the rose and the little prince, the little prince fell heartily in love with the rose and willingly did everything for the rose. But Rose's pride and repeated temptations make the little king leave his home in anger and start traveling in the universe.
When she left, Rose was also very remorseful and showed her love to the little prince, but she still wished the little prince a happy journey because of her pride. During the journey, the little prince never stopped thinking about the rose. After arriving on Earth, he was dismayed and disappointed to see 5,000 roses that looked exactly like his own. But after taming the fox, the little prince discovers the uniqueness of his own rose.
The Little Prince said to the 5,000 roses, "She alone is more important than all of you, because she was watered by me. Because she is the one I put in the flower cover. Because she is the one I protect with a screen. Because I removed the caterpillars from her. Because I have listened to her complaints and boasts, and even, at times, to her silence. For she is my rose." After that, the little prince fulfills his love for the rose with his life and shows the world the true meaning of love i.e. love is duty.
Extended Information
The Little Prince uses flashbacks to tell the story of the Little Prince and me, except for the ending. The flashbacks reinforce the two perspectives of first-person narration, namely, the retrospective perspective of the narration and the experiential perspective of the events being experienced at the time. The organic integration and interlacing of these two perspectives creates a special artistic effect in adjusting the narrative distance and creating suspense.
The perspective of the narrative self enables the narrator to gain a kind of transcendence and to re-view what has happened from a higher perspective.
In the beginning of the fairy tale, the narrator recalls that "when I was six years old," I drew a picture of a python devouring an elephant, but the adults could not understand it and advised me to give up painting, so I changed my profession to become a pilot. "I became a pilot instead. Cover 2The present "I" revisited this experience and clearly saw that the change in my career was due to the difference between the world of children and that of adults, so I made an effort to compare children and adults.
However, the perspective of the narrator's self tends to widen the distance between the reader and the events of the story, and the reader is prone to question the truthfulness of "I"'s narration in the absence of direct contact with the events. Therefore, in order to reduce the reader's skepticism about the authenticity of the narrative, it is necessary to reduce the reader's opportunity to listen to the narrator's account, shorten the narrative distance, and increase the reader's opportunity to observe the events of the story by themselves, which requires that the narrative ego's point of view give way to the experiential ego's point of view.
In this way, "I" gives up the perspective of the narrative self in favor of the perspective of the empirical self in recreating the events that I have experienced. The main part of the fairy tale more often than not adopts the perspective of the empirical self. For example, my meeting with the little prince, the identity of the little prince, what the little prince had experienced in the past, the final departure of the little prince, and so on.
The adoption of the experiential perspective greatly shortens the distance between the reader and the events and characters of the story, giving the reader a sense of being there and being able to make his own evaluation and judgment of the events and characters.
In addition, the alternate use of the empirical self and the narrative self can greatly enhance the generation of suspense. The experiential and narrative self perspectives can reflect "'my' different perceptions of events or different levels of awareness of events at different times. They are often contrasted between maturity and naivety, knowing the truth about events and being kept in the dark." The narrative self-perspective as retrospective surely knows more than the experiential perspective at the time when the events were being experienced.
For example, the fairy tale begins with the story of "I", who was never understood by adults and thus "lived alone, with no one I could really talk to, until six years ago, when the airplane broke down and landed in the Sahara Desert". Here the retrospective "I" clearly knows that the experience of the plane crash changed "my" state of loneliness.
But instead of immediately explaining what happened to him, the narrator immediately shifts his perspective to that of the empirical self, telling of being awakened by a "strange voice" and "seeing a small man I'd never seen before staring at me in all seriousness", a small man who makes me look at him in a way that makes me look at him. "The little man asked me to draw him a sheep, and I eventually drew him a sheep in a box. The sheep in a box is the same as the elephant devoured by a python that "I" drew as a child, and both require the use of imagination to understand.
At this point, the reader understands that "I" have met someone I can really talk to, and that it is this person who has changed the state of my loneliness. So who is this little man? Where did he come from? At this point the experiential self gives way to the narrative self: "Every day I learn something, either about his planet, or about how he left it, or how he got here.
These circumstances, little by little, happened to be known." Here the narrator explicitly tells the reader that he knows all of it, but he doesn't tell the reader everything he knows, but rather reveals it, bit by bit, in empirical perspective.
The narrator employs this alternate perspective mode of empirical and narrative perspective almost throughout the fairy tale. The narrator always uses the narrative self's point of view first to reveal what he knows, but instead of telling the reader, he then switches to the empirical point of view to show it.
Because the entire fairy tale is essentially retrospective in nature, the narrator's perspective of reminiscence becomes the norm, and the reader expects to see everything that the narrator observes. The narrator, in turn, intentionally takes an empirical point of view and exercises control over the information, thus creating a tense sense of suspense that greatly mobilizes the reader's interest in reading and the drama of the work.
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