What is Saint Exupery's Little Prince about? Analysis of the work “The Little Prince” by Exupery

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Problem-thematic analysis of the work

The story of “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. Exupery has key, favorite images and symbols. Here, for example, they lead to storylines: this is the search for water by thirsty pilots, their physical suffering and amazing rescue.

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The symbol of life is water, it quenches the thirst of people lost in the sands, the source of everything that exists on earth, the food and flesh of everyone, the substance that makes rebirth possible.
In “The Little Prince” Exupery will fill this symbol with deep philosophical content.
The dehydrated desert is a symbol of a world devastated by war, chaos, destruction, human callousness, envy and selfishness. This is a world in which man dies of spiritual thirst.
Another important symbol to which almost the entire work is addressed is the rose.
A rose is a symbol of love, beauty, and femininity. The Little Prince I did not immediately discern the true inner essence of beauty. But after a conversation with the Fox, the truth was revealed to him - beauty only becomes beautiful when it is filled with meaning and content. “You are beautiful, but empty,” continued the Little Prince. “You won’t want to die for your sake.” Of course, a random passerby, looking at my rose, will say that it is exactly the same as you. But for me she is more precious than all of you...”
The salvation of humanity from the impending inevitable catastrophe is one of the main themes in the writer’s work. He actively develops it in his work “Planet of People”. Exactly the same theme is in “The Little Prince,” but here it receives a deeper development. Saint-Exupéry never wrote a single work of his own, nor did it take as long to hatch as “The Little Prince.” Motifs from “The Little Prince” are often found in the writer’s previous works
What path of salvation does Antoine de Saint-Exupéry see?
“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 the Second World War, 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 creative path writer, philosophical, artistic comprehension.
“The Little Prince” is, first of all, a philosophical fairy tale. And, therefore, the seemingly simple and unpretentious plot and irony hide a deep meaning. The author touches upon in it an abstract form through allegories, metaphors and symbols of themes on a cosmic scale: good and evil, life and death, human existence, true love, moral beauty, friendship, endless loneliness, the relationship between the individual and the crowd and many others.
Despite the fact that the Little Prince is a child, he discovers a true vision of the world that is inaccessible even to an adult. And people with dead souls whom he meets on his way main character, much scarier 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.
The fairy tale has strong romantic traditions.
Firstly, this is a choice folklore genre- fairy tales. 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). Romantics turn to oral genres folk art not by chance. Folklore is the childhood of humanity, and the theme of childhood in romanticism is one of the key themes.
Saint-Exupery shows that a person begins to live only for the sake of the material shell, forgetting about spiritual aspirations. Only the child's soul and the artist's soul are not subject to mercantile interests and, accordingly, to Evil. This is where the cult of childhood can be traced in the works of the romantics.
But major tragedy Saint-Exupery’s “adult” heroes are not so much that they are subordinated to the material world, but that they “lost” all spiritual qualities and began to exist meaninglessly, and not live in in every sense this word.
Since this is a philosophical work, the author poses global themes in a generalized and abstract form. He examines the theme of Evil in two aspects: on the one hand, it is “micro-evil,” that is, evil within an individual person. This is the deadness and inner emptiness of the inhabitants of the planets, who personify all human vices. And it is no coincidence that the inhabitants of the planet Earth are characterized through the inhabitants of the planets seen by the Little Prince. By this, the author emphasizes how petty and dramatic the modern world is. But Exupery is not a pessimist at all. He believes that humanity, like the Little Prince, will comprehend the mystery of existence, and each person will find his own guiding star, which will illuminate his path in life.
The second aspect of the theme of evil can be conditionally called “macroevil.” Baobabs are a spiritualized image of evil in general. One interpretation of this metaphorical image is associated with fascism. Saint-Exupéry wanted people to carefully uproot the evil “baobab trees” that threatened to tear the planet apart. “Beware of the baobabs!” - the writer conjures.
The fairy tale itself was written because it was “terribly important and urgent.” The writer often repeated that the seeds lie in the ground for the time being, and then they germinate, and from the seeds of a cedar a cedar grows, and from the seeds of a thorn tree a blackthorn grows. It is necessary for good seeds to sprout. “After all, all adults were children at first...” People should save and not lose on life path everything that is bright, good and pure in the soul that will make them incapable of evil and violence. Only the man with the rich inner world and one who strives for spiritual self-improvement has the right to be called a Personality. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of small planets and the planet Earth have forgotten about this simple truth and have become like a thoughtless and faceless crowd.
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.”
Saint-Exupéry encourages us to treat everything beautiful as carefully as possible and try not to lose the beauty within ourselves on the difficult path of life - the beauty of the soul and heart.
The Little Prince learns the most important thing about beauty from the Fox. Outwardly beautiful, but empty inside, roses do not evoke any feelings in a child-contemplator. They are dead to him. The main character discovers the truth for himself, the author and the readers - only that which is filled with content and deep meaning is beautiful.

Misunderstanding and alienation of people is another important philosophical theme. Saint-Exupéry not only touches on the theme of misunderstanding between an adult and a child, but on the theme of misunderstanding and loneliness on a cosmic scale. Deadness human soul leads to loneliness. A person judges others only by their “outer shell”, without seeing the main thing in a person - his inner moral beauty: “When you tell adults: “I saw a beautiful house made of pink brick, there are geraniums in the windows, and pigeons on the roof,” they do not can't imagine this house. They must be told: “I saw a house for a hundred thousand francs,” and then they exclaim: “What a beauty!”
Another key philosophical theme of the fairy tale “The Little Prince” is the theme of existence. It is divided into real being - existence and ideal being - essence. Real existence is temporary, transitory, but ideal existence is eternal, unchangeable. The meaning of human life is to comprehend, to get as close as possible to the essence. The soul of the author and the little prince is not shackled by the ice of indifference and deadness. Therefore, a true vision of the world is revealed to them: they learn 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.
People must take care of the purity and beauty of their planet, together protect and decorate it, and prevent all living things from perishing. So, gradually, unobtrusively, another one appears in the fairy tale. important topic- environmental, which is very relevant for our time. It seems that the author of the fairy tale “foresaw” future environmental disasters and warned about caring for our native and beloved planet. Saint-Exupéry acutely felt how small and fragile our planet is. The Little Prince's journey from star to star brings us closer to today's vision of cosmic distances, where the Earth, due to the carelessness of people, can disappear almost unnoticed. Therefore, the fairy tale has not lost its relevance to this day; That’s why its genre is philosophical, because it is addressed to all people, it raises eternal problems.
And the Fox reveals one more secret to the baby: “Only the heart is vigilant. You won’t see the most important thing with your eyes... Your Rose is so dear to you because you gave her your whole soul... People have forgotten this truth, but don’t forget: you are forever responsible for everyone you have tamed.” To tame means to bind oneself to another creature with tenderness, love, and a sense of responsibility. To tame means to destroy facelessness and indifference towards all living things. To tame means to make the world significant and generous, because everything in it reminds of a beloved creature. The narrator comprehends this truth, and the stars come to life for him, and he hears the ringing of silver bells in the sky, reminiscent of the laughter of the Little Prince. The theme of “expansion of the soul” through love runs through the entire tale.
Together with the little hero, we rediscover for ourselves the main thing in life that was hidden, buried by all sorts of husk, but which constitutes the only value for a person. The little prince learns what the bonds of friendship are.
Saint-Exupery also speaks about friendship on the first page of the story. In the author's system of values, the theme of friendship occupies one of the main places. Only friendship can melt the ice of loneliness and alienation, since it is based on mutual understanding, mutual trust and mutual assistance.
“It's sad when friends are forgotten. Not everyone has a friend,” says the hero of the fairy tale. At the beginning of the fairy tale, the Little Prince leaves his only Rose, then he leaves his new friend Fox on Earth. “There is no perfection in the world,” the Fox will say. But there is harmony, there is humanity, there is a person’s responsibility for the work entrusted to him, for the person close to him, there is also responsibility for his planet, for everything that happens on it.
A deep meaning is hidden in the symbolic image of the planet to which the Little Prince returns. This is a symbol of the human soul, a symbol of the home of the human heart. Exupery wants to say that each person has his own planet, his own island and his own guiding star, which a person should not forget about. “I would like to know why the stars glow,” said the Little Prince thoughtfully. “Probably so that sooner or later everyone can find theirs again.” The heroes of the fairy tale, having gone through a thorny path, found their star, and the author believes that the reader will also find his distant star.
"The Little Prince" is romantic fairy tale, a dream that has not disappeared, but is kept by people, cherished by them, like something precious from childhood. Childhood is somewhere nearby and comes in moments of the most terrible despair and loneliness, when there is nowhere to go. It will come up as if nothing had happened, as if it had never left us for these many years, will squat down next to us and ask, looking curiously at the wrecked plane: “What is this thing?” Then everything will fall into place, and an adult will return to that clarity and transparency, the fearless directness of judgments and assessments that only children have.
Reading Exupery, we seem to change the angle of view on banal, everyday phenomena. It leads to the comprehension of obvious truths: you cannot hide the stars in a jar and count them pointlessly, you need to take care of those for whom you are responsible and listen to the voice of your own heart. Everything is simple and complex at the same time.

In 1943, the work of interest to us was first published. Let's talk briefly about the background of its creation, and then carry out an analysis. “The Little Prince” is a work whose writing was inspired by one incident that happened to its author.

In 1935, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was involved in a plane crash during a flight from Paris to Saigon. He ended up in a territory located in the Sahara, in its northeastern part. Memories of this accident and the invasion of the Nazis prompted the author to think about the responsibility of people for the Earth, about the fate of the world. In 1942, he wrote in his diary that he was worried about his generation, devoid of spiritual content. People lead a herd existence. To return spiritual concerns to a person is the task that the writer set for himself.

Who is the work dedicated to?

The story we are interested in is dedicated to Leon Vert, a friend of Antoine. This is important to note when conducting analysis. “The Little Prince” is a story in which everything is filled with deep meaning, including the dedication. After all, Leon Werth is a Jewish writer, journalist, critic who suffered persecution during the war. Such a dedication was not just a tribute to friendship, but also a bold challenge from the writer to anti-Semitism and Nazism. IN hard time created his own fairy tale Exupery. He fought against violence with words and illustrations, which he hand-created for his work.

Two worlds in the story

Two worlds are presented in this story - adults and children, as our analysis shows. “The Little Prince” is a work in which the division is not made according to age. For example, the pilot is an adult, but he managed to preserve his childish soul. The author divides people according to ideals and ideas. For adults, the most important things are their own affairs, ambition, wealth, power. But a child’s soul yearns for something else - friendship, mutual understanding, beauty, joy. Antithesis (children and adults) helps to reveal the main conflict of the work - the confrontation between two different systems of values: real and false, spiritual and material. It goes deeper further. Having left the planet, the little prince meets “strange adults” on his way, whom he is unable to understand.

Travel and dialogue

The composition is based on travel and dialogue. The general picture of the existence of humanity, which is losing its moral values, is recreated by the meeting with the “adults” of the little prince.

The main character travels in the story from asteroid to asteroid. He visits, first of all, the nearest ones, where people live alone. Each asteroid has a number, like apartments in a modern multi-story building. These numbers hint at the separation of people who live in neighboring apartments, but seem to live on different planets. For the little prince, meeting the inhabitants of these asteroids becomes a lesson in loneliness.

Meeting with the King

On one of the asteroids lived a king who, like other kings, looked at the whole world in a very simplified way. For him, his subjects are all people. However, this king was tormented by the following question: “Who is to blame for the fact that his orders are impossible to fulfill?” The king taught the prince that it is more difficult to judge himself than others. Having mastered this, you can become truly wise. The power-hungry loves power, not subjects, and therefore is deprived of the latter.

The Prince Visits the Ambitious Planet

An ambitious man lived on another planet. But vain people are deaf to everything except praise. The ambitious man loves only fame, not the public, and therefore remains without the latter.

Drunkard's Planet

Let's continue the analysis. The little prince ends up on the third planet. His next meeting is with a drunkard, who thinks intently about himself and ends up completely confused. This man is ashamed of his drinking. However, he drinks in order to forget about his conscience.

Business man

The business man owned the fourth planet. As an analysis of the fairy tale “The Little Prince” shows, the meaning of his life was that one should find something that does not have an owner and appropriate it. A business man counts wealth that is not his: he who saves only for himself might as well count the stars. The little prince cannot understand the logic by which adults live. He concludes that it is good for his flower and the volcanoes that he owns them. But the stars have no benefit from such possession.

Lamplighter

And only on the fifth planet the main character finds a person with whom he wants to make friends. This is a lamplighter who would be despised by everyone, because he thinks not only about himself. However, his planet is tiny. There's no room for two here. The lamplighter works in vain because he does not know for whom.

Meeting with a geographer

The geographer, who writes thick books, lived on the sixth planet, which was created in his story by Exupery (“The Little Prince”). The analysis of the work would be incomplete if we did not say a few words about it. This is a scientist, and beauty is ephemeral for him. Nobody needs scientific works. Without love for a person, it turns out, everything is meaningless - honor, power, labor, science, conscience, and capital. The little prince also leaves this planet. The analysis of the work continues with a description of our planet.

The Little Prince on Earth

The last place the prince visited was a strange Earth. When he arrives here, the title character of Exupery's story "The Little Prince" feels even more lonely. The analysis of a work when describing it should be more detailed than when describing other planets. After all, the author pays special attention to the Earth in the story. He notices that this planet is not home at all, it is “salty”, “all in needles” and “completely dry”. It's uncomfortable to live there. Its definition is given through images that seemed strange to the little prince. The boy notes that this planet is not simple. It is ruled by 111 kings, there are 7 thousand geographers, 900 thousand businessmen, 7.5 million drunkards, 311 million ambitious people.

The protagonist's journey continues in the following sections. He meets, in particular, with the switchman directing the train, but people do not know where they are going. The boy then sees a merchant selling thirst pills.

Among the people living here, the little prince feels lonely. Analyzing life on Earth, he notes that there are so many people on it that they cannot feel like one whole. Millions remain strangers to each other. What do they live for? There are a lot of people rushing on fast trains - why? People are not connected by pills or fast trains. And the planet will not become a home without this.

Friendship with Fox

After analyzing Exupery's "The Little Prince", we found out that the boy is bored on Earth. And Fox, another hero of the work, has a boring life. Both of them are looking for a friend. The fox knows how to find him: you need to tame someone, that is, create bonds. And the main character understands that there are no stores where you can buy a friend.

The author describes the life before meeting the boy, which was led by the Fox from the story “The Little Prince”. allows us to note that before this meeting he was only fighting for his existence: he hunted chickens, and hunters hunted him. The fox, having tamed, broke out of the circle of defense and attack, fear and hunger. It is to this hero that the formula “only the heart is vigilant” belongs. Love can be transferred to many other things. Having made friends with the main character, the Fox will fall in love with everything else in the world. The close in his mind is connected with the distant.

Pilot in the desert

It is easy to imagine a planet in habitable places as a home. However, in order to understand what home is, you need to be in the desert. This is precisely what the analysis of Exupery’s “The Little Prince” suggests. In the desert, the main character met a pilot, with whom he later became friends. The pilot ended up here not only because of a malfunction of the plane. He has been enchanted by the desert all his life. The name of this desert is loneliness. The pilot understands an important secret: life has meaning when there is someone to die for. The desert is a place in which a person feels a thirst for communication and thinks about the meaning of existence. It reminds us that man’s home is the Earth.

What did the author want to tell us?

The author wants to say that people have forgotten one simple truth: they are responsible for their planet, as well as for those they have tamed. If we all understood this, there would probably be no wars or economic problems. But people are very often blind, do not listen to their own hearts, leave their home, seeking happiness far from their family and friends. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry did not write his fairy tale “The Little Prince” for fun. The analysis of the work carried out in this article, we hope, has convinced you of this. The writer appeals to all of us, urging us to take a close look at those who surround us. After all, these are our friends. They must be protected, according to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (“The Little Prince”). Let's finish the analysis of the work here. We invite readers to reflect on this story for themselves and continue the analysis with their own observations.

“The Little Prince” was born in 1943, in America, where Antoine de Saint-Exupéry fled from Nazi-occupied France. This unusual fairy tale, equally well received by both children and adults, turned out to be relevant not only during the Second World War. Today, people still read to her, trying to find answers to questions in The Little Prince. eternal questions about the meaning of life, the essence of love, the price of friendship, the necessity of death.

By form- a story consisting of twenty-seven parts, according to plot- a fairy tale telling about the magical adventures of Prince Charming, who left his native kingdom because of unhappy love, according to the artistic organization - a parable - is simple in speech performance (it is very easy to learn from “The Little Prince” French) and complex in terms of philosophical content.

Main idea fairy tales and parables are a statement of the true values ​​of human existence. Home antithesis– sensory and rational perception of the world. The first is typical for children and those rare adults who have not lost their childish purity and naivety. The second is the prerogative of adults, firmly rooted in the world of rules they themselves created, often absurd even from the point of view of reason.

The appearance of the Little Prince on Earth symbolizes the birth of a person who comes into our world with a pure soul and a loving heart, open to friendship. Return fairy tale hero home occurs through real death, coming from the venom of a desert snake. The physical death of the Little Prince embodies the Christian idea about eternal life a soul that can go to Heaven only by leaving its bodily shell on earth. The fairy-tale hero's yearly stay on Earth correlates with the idea of ​​the spiritual growth of a person learning to be friends and love, to care for and understand others.

The image of the Little Prince based on fairy tale motifs and the image of the author of the work - a representative of the impoverished noble family, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who bore the nickname “Sun King” as a child. The little boy with golden hair is the soul of the author who never grew up. The meeting of an adult pilot with his child self occurs in one of the most tragic moments of his life - a plane crash in the Sahara Desert. The author, balancing on the brink of life and death, learns the story of the Little Prince while repairing the plane and not only talks to him, but also goes together to the well, and even carries his subconscious in his arms, giving him the features of a real character, different from him.

The relationship between the Little Prince and Rose is an allegorical depiction of love and the difference in its perception between a man and a woman. Capricious, proud, beautiful Rose manipulates her lover until she loses power over him. Tender, timid, believing in what he is told, the Little Prince suffers cruelly from the beauty’s frivolity, not immediately realizing that he had to love her not for words, but for deeds - for that wonderful aroma that she gave him, for all that the joy she brought into his life.

Having seen five thousand Roses on Earth, the space traveler becomes desperate. He was almost disappointed in his flower, but the Fox, who met him on the way in time, explains to the hero the truths long forgotten by people: that you need to look with your heart, and not with your eyes, and to be responsible for those you have tamed.

Art Fox image- an allegorical image of friendship, born from habit, love and the desire to be needed by someone. In an animal’s understanding, a friend is someone who fills his life with meaning: destroys boredom, allows him to see the beauty of the world around him (comparing the Little Prince’s golden hair with ears of wheat) and cry when parting. The little prince learns the lesson given to him well. Saying goodbye to life, he thinks not about death, but about his friend. Fox image in the story it also correlates with the biblical Serpent-tempter: for the first time the hero meets him under an apple tree, the animal shares with the boy knowledge about the most important basics of life- love and friendship. As soon as the Little Prince comprehends this knowledge, he immediately acquires mortality: he appeared on Earth traveling from planet to planet, but he can leave it only by abandoning his physical shell.

The role of fairy-tale monsters in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's story is played by adults, whom the author snatches from total mass and places everyone on their own planet, which encloses a person within itself and, as if under a magnifying glass, shows his essence. The desire for power, ambition, drunkenness, love of wealth, stupidity - the most characteristic features adults. Exupery presents the common vice of all as activity/life that is devoid of meaning: the king from the first asteroid rules over nothing and gives only those orders that his fictitious subjects can carry out; the ambitious person values ​​no one but himself; the drunkard is unable to escape the vicious circle of shame and drinking; a business man endlessly adds up the stars and finds joy not in their light, but in their value, which can be written on paper and deposited in a bank; The old geographer is mired in theoretical conclusions that have nothing in common with the practical science of geography. From the point of view of the Little Prince, the only reasonable person in this row of adults is the lamplighter, whose craft is useful for others and beautiful in its essence. Perhaps this is why it loses its meaning on a planet where the day lasts one minute, and on Earth electric lighting is already in full swing.

The story about the boy who came from the stars is written in a touching and bright style. She is completely imbued with sunlight, which can be found not only in the hair and yellow scarf of the Little Prince, but also in the endless sands of the Sahara, ears of wheat, the orange Fox and the yellow Snake. The latter is immediately recognized by the reader as Death, because it is she who is inherent in a power greater than "than in the king's finger", opportunity "carry further than any ship" and ability to decide "all the riddles". The snake shares with the Little Prince his secret of knowing people: when the hero complains about loneliness in the desert, she says that "among people too" It happens "alone".

“The Little Prince” (French Le Petit Prince) is an allegorical story, the most famous work Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

“Here is his best portrait...” - “The Little Prince”, ch. II
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. The unique illustrations in The Little Prince break down language barriers and become part of a universal visual lexicon that everyone can understand.

“After all, all adults were children at first, only few of them remember this” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from the dedication to the book.

1. It's good if you once had a friend, even if you had to die.
2. If you love a flower - the only one that is no longer on any of the many millions of stars - that’s enough: you look at the sky - and you’re happy. And you say to yourself: “My flower lives there somewhere...”
3. And people lack imagination. They only repeat what you tell them... At home I had a flower, my beauty and joy, and it was always the first to speak.
4. People grow five thousand roses in one garden... and do not find what they are looking for.
5. - I didn’t understand anything then! It was necessary to judge not by words, but by deeds. She gave me her scent and illuminated my life. I shouldn't have run. Behind these pitiful tricks and tricks one had to guess the tenderness. The flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young, I didn’t know how to love yet.
6. Do you know why the desert is good? Springs are hidden somewhere in it...
7. Only children know what they are looking for. They devote all their days to a rag doll, and it becomes very, very dear to them, and if it is taken away from them, the children cry...
8. Each person has their own stars.
9. The eyes are blind. You have to search with your heart.

10. The heart also needs water.

11. Vain people are deaf to everything except praise.

12. “Yes, yes, I love you,” he heard. - It's my fault that you didn't know this.

13. - And when you are consoled (in the end, you are always consoled), you will be glad that you once knew me. You will always be my friend. You'll want to laugh with me. Sometimes you will open the window like this, and you will be pleased... And your friends will be surprised that you laugh, looking at the sky. And you tell them: “Yes, yes, I always laugh when looking at the stars!” And they'll think you're crazy. This is the cruel joke I will play on you.

14. You know... my rose... I am responsible for it. And she is so weak! And so simple-minded. All she has is four measly thorns; she has nothing else to protect herself from the world...

15. “People have forgotten this truth,” said the Fox, “but don’t forget: you are forever responsible for everyone you tamed.” You are responsible for your rose.

Tale of a fairy tale

Lessons 96-102. A. de Saint-Exupery “The Little Prince”.

1. Examination homework carried out on the questions and assignments of the textbook on the memoirs of K. Chukovsky.

In order to summarize what has been learned, the following questions are asked:

What section did we study? What is “cognitive literature”?

Did you learn anything new? What exactly?

Which of the works you read in this section do you remember most?

2. Preparation for perception.

The textbook contains materials about the genre features of fairy tales and about the author of the story “The Little Prince”. Children get to know them. The teacher can supplement their information about the writer.

(Reference material.

ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPERY (1900-1944)

Since childhood, Antoine knew the legends about his ancient knightly family. Family documents claimed that the line of the Comtes de Saint-Exupéry originated from one of the Knights of the Holy Grail...

Having heard enough stories about the exploits of his ancestors, Antoine, together with his brother and sisters, climbed into the attic covered with cobwebs. There, children from under the dusty rubbish pulled out boots from the time of King Louis XVI, a hundred-year-old doublet, or a knight's cloak... But childhood ends. It's time to study.

Then there was Paris, endless visits to influential relatives. Antoine quickly got tired of all this. In addition, the young count could not afford social life. After all, Antoine’s father, who died early, was unable to leave his wife and children a fortune. I had to choose a profession.

Multi-talented, Saint-Exupery drew well, played the violin, and was passionate about literature. But most of all he was attracted to the profession of a pilot. Leaving his studies at the Paris Academy of Arts, Saint-Exupéry volunteered to join a fighter aviation regiment.

It was the time of aviation's youth. Flights were very dangerous back then, but how could that stop the descendant of the Knight of the Holy Grail? The outstanding pilot Saint-Exupéry laid out air routes, mastered new aircraft, and invented aviation instruments. More than once he suffered disasters, sometimes receiving serious injuries, was on the verge of death, but again returned to his work. Exupery valued the wonderful feeling of flying over endless expanses, and the constant risk gave rise to acute feeling the fleeting nature of life and at the same time its true value. Perhaps, flying in his “whatnot” over the endless sands of the Sahara desert, in the midst of silent emptiness, he remembered the aging mother he had abandoned, about his Beautiful Lady, who would never become his wife...

It was during one of these flights that Antoine came up with the idea for his first book. Books about the pilot, about his unfulfilled hope

And about how sometimes it is difficult for people to understand each other...

After “Southern Postal” two more books appeared - “Night1

Noah Flight" and "Planet of People". Their heroes sat at the controls of the plane and were left alone with the world and their thoughts... “For me, flying and writing are one and the same thing,” Saint Exu once said. “The main thing is to act, the main thing is to find yourself...”

When World War II began, Saint-Exupery was in the army, but when France was captured by the Nazis, he had to leave for the USA. There, far from family and friends, Anthuan began to write his famous philosophical fairy tale “The Little Prince”. His Little Prince is convinced that a person’s calling is selfless love and service to those who need you. So, the Kid loves the rose flower he grew. He learned to tame animals, learns to be faithful in friendship, to honestly fulfill the reasonable duties assigned to a person by life. Saint-Exupery composed this work for those who are able to understand that “you cannot see the most important things with your eyes - only your heart is vigilant.”

But even “The Little Prince” did not save its author from melancholy. Saint-Exupery languished from inactivity and the inability to fly. Antoine was not embarrassed that he was already 43, that he was crippled in accidents and could not even pull himself

heavy flight suit...

The doctors and generals were adamant, but Saint-Ex, as his friends called him, turned out to be stubborn. He nevertheless joined the ranks of the French Resistance and received permission for several reconnaissance flights. From the last, ninth, Exupery’s plane did not return.

He died three weeks before the liberation of France from German occupation. Saint-Exupery's plane was shot down by a fascist fighter and fell into the sea. Recently, the wreckage of this plane was found and raised from the bottom of the sea. The death of Captain Saint-Exupery was as heroic as his life.)

3. Familiarity with the text.

4. Discussion of what you read.

Children answer questions for the first chapter located

in the textbook.

5. At home, students continue to further familiarize themselves with the story.

General approaches to studying A. de Saint-Exupéry’s story “The Little Prince”.

Without repeating what has been written about working with large volumes!

texts in the chapter of this manual “General Characteristics!” tics of the process of learning to read”, let’s add what is relevant!

connection directly to the story by A. de Sainte-Exupéry. Considering that this work is woven from a quivering weave! neither images, feelings and thoughts, I don’t want to impose a certain reading regime on the teacher and children. Let familiarity with this

the work will be unobtrusive, without strict regulations!

tations. You should not force the text into a framework; you should obey the rhythm of breathing of this poetic prose, follow the author.

In the course of assignments, obligatory assignment is unacceptable. The teacher needs

avoid the danger of chatting, drowning out the aching melody of the writer’s voice. You need to trust the author, and not split him up

work of private questions. Minimum conversations

maximum reading, immersing students in a touching atmosphere! atmosphere of the story about the Little Prince.

IN addition to methodological materials textbook, I would like to draw the teacher’s attention to the possibility of dramatization (primarily, role-playing) when rereading chapters VI, VII, VIII (first half), IX, XXI. Only those who wish to participate should participate in this activity. If suddenly they are not there, then there is no need to dramatize fragments of this touching, reverent work, which requires a spiritual response.

After reading the roles of Chapter VI, you can invite the children to imagine themselves in the place of the Little Prince at the moment when the pilot asked him: “So, on the day when you saw forty-three sunsets, you were very sad?” Why didn't the little prince answer? How did he feel and what did he look like? (He became sad, remembering his former sadness and loneliness, and again felt unhappy.) Next, the students collectively draw a verbal picture depicting what the Little Prince looked like at the named moment of his conversation

With pilot. Then the teacher offers to “revive” this picture, for which everyone, sitting at the desk, needs to feel, get used to the role of the Little Prince, “try on” his romantic, sad state, conveying it in the form of a “living picture”. Along the way, the teacher explains that you need to try not to pretend, but to experience the same thing as this kid. Define best performer, of course, is not necessary, since trying to get used to the image of the Little Prince is a delicate job. In this case, it is more important that children become at least a little closer to the character.

After reading Chapter IX, both the meeting episode (Chapter VIII) and the farewell scene (Chapter IX) of the Little Prince and the Rose are staged. Before this, children are asked to complete the third task of the notebook:

IN In a well-prepared class, students can complete this task independently; if children are not sufficiently trained

Please note, this work is done together with the teacher. The same applies to the designation of the words rose and the little prince. If throughout the entire period of study role-based reading was carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the methodological apparatus of the Favorite Pages textbooks, students cope with these tasks independently. The test for correct execution is the quality of their reading by role.

In Chapter XXI there is philosophy, lyricism, and humor, flowing into each other - it is, of course, of great interest both in educational terms and for role-playing reading. It is especially important that children role-play the final part of the farewell of the Little Prince and the Fox.

The study of the story “The Little Prince” is completed by completing the first and second tasks in the notebook.

Final lesson (additional).

The last lesson is based on materials from the notebook, which are general in nature. Many of these tasks are aimed at teaching children how to work with children's books (including encyclopedias) and periodicals. The teacher selects and arranges the materials to be studied at his own discretion, focusing on the characteristics of the students in his class. In this lesson on reading diaries, you can summarize the results of children’s independent reading of books during the school year.