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The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
This is one of my favourite childrens books of all time that I never actually read as a child since I mostly grew up with Anne Franks diaries as bedtime stories and I realized I never wrote a review on this book even though I had so many thoughts.
For me this book is about seeing adults and the adult world from a child's perspective and it's somehow is a reality check that it makes the little prince realize that the world that is ahead of him isn't as wonderful and romantized as he thought. That the world isn't like the protected life, the sanctuary he had with the rose on their planet. I think it shows this innocence of childrens and how they can think the best out of anything and have no doubts and dreams and that everything feels like a fantasy.
Also depending on how you grow up of course but that innocence like in the little prince makes us often believe as children that what we have been taught and how we are treated is the normal.
There is this particular part of the little prince where he meets an alcoholic on one of the planets and he thinks about why adults consume something that could eventually kill them. That scene hit me the most since I also could relate to the little prince in that scene with not completely understanding what's going on and also his innocence being taken away at such a young age which made it hit very close to home.
In all of this the rose was his safe space (that reminded me a lot of my biological mom growing up) but even she fades too and withers and tells the little prince that he has to face the world on his own now.
This was a gutwrenching, bittersweet and such an emotional book and I love everything about it
For me this book is about seeing adults and the adult world from a child's perspective and it's somehow is a reality check that it makes the little prince realize that the world that is ahead of him isn't as wonderful and romantized as he thought. That the world isn't like the protected life, the sanctuary he had with the rose on their planet. I think it shows this innocence of childrens and how they can think the best out of anything and have no doubts and dreams and that everything feels like a fantasy.
Also depending on how you grow up of course but that innocence like in the little prince makes us often believe as children that what we have been taught and how we are treated is the normal.
There is this particular part of the little prince where he meets an alcoholic on one of the planets and he thinks about why adults consume something that could eventually kill them. That scene hit me the most since I also could relate to the little prince in that scene with not completely understanding what's going on and also his innocence being taken away at such a young age which made it hit very close to home.
In all of this the rose was his safe space (that reminded me a lot of my biological mom growing up) but even she fades too and withers and tells the little prince that he has to face the world on his own now.
This was a gutwrenching, bittersweet and such an emotional book and I love everything about it