Book Review
The Little Prince, written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, is a world-famous fairy tale for both children and adults. Though it looks like a simple and lovely story, it hides profound truths about love, growth and the true meaning of life. After reading this book, I have gained deep thoughts about adulthood and innocence.
The story tells about a little prince who leaves his own small planet. He travels across different planets and meets many strange adults: a greedy king who craves power, a vain man who only wants praise, a greedy businessman who counts stars all day, and a busy lamplighter. These ridiculous characters reflect the emptiness and blindness of adults who are trapped in material desires and forget the beauty of life.
Later, the little prince comes to the earth and meets a pilot stranded in the desert. He shares his experiences and tells the pilot his love for a proud and fragile rose on his planet. The rose is unique to him, because he has devoted his time, care and heart to it. The book puts forward the most touching sentence: “What is essential is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.”
This sentence is the core of the whole book. Adults always focus on visible things such as money, status and numbers, ignoring the invisible but precious feelings like love, trust and companionship. We grow up gradually, become busy with trivial things, and slowly lose our childlike innocence and pure heart. We turn into those boring adults that the little prince cannot understand.
The little prince teaches us a precious lesson: love means responsibility. Once we tame someone or something, we will be responsible for it forever. True happiness never lies in material wealth, but in sincere feelings and careful company.
In fact, every adult was once a child. We should keep a pure heart in the complicated world, never lose our inner innocence, and cherish the people and things we care about. This short but warm book reminds us to slow down, look at the world with our hearts, and hold fast to our original intention.
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