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Le Petit Prince

• By Amanda Nobile

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• The first part of my presentation will talk about
  Antoine de Saint-Exuperys life as a pilot and
  his two novels.
• The second part of my presentation will focus on
  the Themes, Motifs, and a quote mentioned in The
  Little Prince.

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About the Author Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• Antoine St. Exupery was born June 29, 1900.
• He was best known a writer that flew planes, an
  artist, and a dreamer.
• St. Exupery was not a pilot in WW1 because he was
  underage.
• His Air force career began in 1921.

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Continued

• The first plane he flew was a Berthaud-metal
  monoplane.
• His airmail career lasted six years produced 2
  novels. Wind, Sand and Stars Night Flight.
• St. Exupery is more know for The Little Prince a
  childrens book.

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Learning to Fly

• At 21yrs. Old he became a private soldier with
  the 2e Régiment de chasseurs à cheval.
• He was sent to Neuhof.
• St. Exupery then took private flying lessons.
• The next year was transfed from the French Army
  to the French Air Force.

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Quiting the French Armee de LAir

• In Jan. 1922 he earned his wings after being sent
  to the 37th Fighter Regiment in Morocco.
• He was then placed in 34th Aviation Regiment at
  Le Bourget outside Paris.
• In 1923 he had is first major crash. He took off
  from Le Bourget in an airplane he was not rated
  to fly.
• Due to his fiancee, future novelist Louise
  Leveque de Vilmorin he quit the French Armee de
  lAir.
• He worked odd meaningless jobs until they split.

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St. Exuperys Career

• In 1926, Saint-Exupery became part of the
  international postal flight.
• He was hired by Aeropostale and flew between
  Dakar and Toulouse.
• His career led him to became the stopover manager
  for Cape Juby in South Morocco.
• He negotiating the release hostage fliers by
  Moors and was given The Legion dhonneur from the
  French Government.
• In 1929, Saint-Exupery was sent to Argentina as
  the director of the Aeroposta airline.
• He looked after air routes in South America,
  searched for crashed fliers, and flew the
  airmail.

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Inspiration For Night Flight

• St. Exupery was his most thoughtful on his long
  flights.
• His most famous flying experiences happened in
  Argentina and are mentioned in his book Night
  Flight. 1931

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Another Crash

• In 1935 he crashed in the Sahara desert.
• Him and his Co Pilot were trying to break the
  speed record in a Paris to Saigon air race and
  win 150,000 francs
• On the fourth day after the crash a Bedouin on a
  camel found them and saved them.
• He survived the crash suffering only dehydration
  from the desert heat.
• This deathly experience in mentioned in his
  memoir Wind, Sand and Stars and was published in
  1939.
• This book won awards in France and in the United
  States.
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His Stay in New York

• The armistice with Germany ended.
• He escaped through Portugal and went into hiding
  in North America, where he stayed 27 months in
  1938.
• He then rode a Douglas DC-3 to New York.
• Saint-Exupery decided to write a children's book
  to calm his nerves and compete with Mary Poppins.
• He then wrote and illustrated The Little Prince
  in New York City, in the village of Asharoken, in
  1942.
• The book was complete in October and published in
  1943 in English and French in the U.S.A.

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St. Exuperys Disappearance

• In 1943 he was becoming weak and 8yrs over the
  age to be a pilot but returned to the Free French
  Air Force.
• Ranked as a Commander
• He continued to read and write while flying his
  F-5B.
• On 31 July 1944, he flew an unarmed P-38 on his
  ninth reconnaissance mission.
• He left from an airbase on Corsica. However, he
  never returned.

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Pieces to the Mystery

• September 1998 Jean-Claude Bianco found
  Saint-Exuperys silver identity bracelet east of
  Riou Island.
• May 2000, Luc Vanrell found some remains of St.
  Exuperys P-38 spread out across the seabed near
  the location of the bracelet.
• On 7 April 2004, Investagtors, Patrick Granjean,
  and Captain Frederic Solano confirmed the
  wreckage was pieces of St. Exupery's plane.

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Theme 1 Being Judgmental.

• One theme throughout the story is the negativity
  of being Judgmental.
• Example 1 In the first few pages of the story
  the narrator says adults have no imagination.
  The first drawing shows a boa constrictor
  swallowing an elephant. Adults would only be able
  to see a hat.
• Example 2. In Chapter IV, the Turkish astronomer
  announces that he has found Asteroid B-612.
  However, due to his Turkish clothing he is
  ignored. Time passes and he presents the asteroid
  discovery wearing European clothing. Due to the
  simple clothing change he receives praise.

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The Drawing
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Theme 2 Relationships.

• Example 1 The prince and his rose teach a
  lesson about love. One day the prince catches his
  rose in a lie and decides to leave his home.
  However, he truly loves his rose. This is what
  fuels the story. The rose towards then end of the
  story becomes the reason the prince wants to
  return home.
• Example 2 The Fox tells the prince that
  investing yourself in someone else makes that
  person, as well as everything associated with
  that person special.

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Theme 3 Exploration helps you learn.

• Example 1 Due to the narrator meeting the
  little prince in the desert the narrator gains a
  new understanding of life . The narrator and the
  prince are both explorers who through exploration
  learn about their world begin to understand their
  place in the world. They also learn about who
  they truly are as a person.
• Example 2 The story also states that real
  spiritual growth can only happen through
  exploration.

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Theme 4 Open Mindedness Age.

• Example 1 The little Prince represents the open
  mindedness of children. He asks questions and is
  willing to involve him self in the mysteries of
  the universe. The story hints that this is the
  key to happiness and understanding.
• The little prince teaches us that age is not what
  separates adults from children. The narrator is
  older and cannot draw anymore. However, he is
  still youthful enough to understand the young,
  and become friends with the little prince.

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Motif Being Tamed.

• The fox tells the little prince that taming means
  creating ties so that two people can become
  special to each other. The drunkard, the king,
  the vain man, the geographer, the lamplighter,
  and the businessman. (Who sadly cant even
  remember the names of the stars he owns.) are too
  busy to create a special relationship with the
  prince. Their lives are not enriched.
• The fox then explains that two people must share
  a part of themselves with each other in order to
  become friends.
• Taming takes work but has benefits. The fox then
  says that world around him is enhanced because he
  is tamed.

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Symbol 1 Trains.

• Trains. In Chapter XXII The little prince learns
  that the passengers on the train will never truly
  be happy because they are never happy where they
  are. The rides are rushed and the passengers make
  no time to fall in love with one place.
• The trains travel in opposite directions which
  hints that adults make contradictory efforts in
  life to be happy.
• Only children can see that the traveling to the
  destination is the most important part of the
  trip.

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Symbol 2 The Desert.

• The Sahara Desert is a symbol for the narrators
  mind.
• The desert is barren because of adult ideas.
• The narrators mind grows because of the
  friendship of the little prince.
• The desert is hostile because it contains a
  deadly serpent and has no water (Until a well
  appears later on). However the desert is a place
  of learning.

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Symbol 3 The Well.

• Drinking water is a symbol for spiritual
  fulfillment.
• When the prince and the narrator find the well
  the water reminds the narrator of Christmas.
• The narrators memories of Christmas ceremonies
  represents that his spirit is what thirsts not
  his body.
• The salesclerk sells a pill to end thirst.
  However, the little prince states that no pill
  can be used for spiritual food. The pill provides
  no real nourishment.

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My Favorite Quote.
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Works Cited

• Antoine De Saint-Exupéry." 2012.
  FamousAuthors.org 3 November, http//www.famousaut
  hors.org/antoine-de-saint-exupery
• Saint-Exupéry, Antoine De, Antoine De
  Saint-Exupéry, and Katherine Woods. The Little
  Prince. New York Harcourt, Brace World, 1943.
  Print.
• Wilkinson, Stephan. "Saint-Ex." Aviation History
  19.1 (2008) 32-37. Academic Search Complete.
  Web. 2 Nov. 2015.