The book "The Little Prince" has always been listed as a classic children's book, with more than one hundred translations around the world. Regardless of whether you have read it or not, you must have heard its name since childhood. As a world classic, this thin fairy tale book tells a pilot about his encounter with the little prince from asteroid b612. It not only explores the estrangement between children and adults, but also proposes the mystery of love, which brings people Many thoughts about growth.
"The Little Prince" is actually a fairy tale for adults.
1. From children to adults, what have people lost?
Because when we were children, we have never understood what an adult is, let alone experience friendship and love. There is only a vague concept of "domestication", "love" and "responsibility", and these things are when we grow up Only then will I slowly understand that this process is both happy and painful, and there are gains and losses. The most regrettable thing is that when we understand, we are no longer children, and have grown into the hate of the narrator. Adults.
From the very beginning, the narrator criticized the monolithic and boring world of "adults" with a painting: when the author was 6 years old, he drew a picture of a giant python devouring an elephant The painting was shown to the adults, but it was regarded as a hat, and he was advised to study geography, history, mathematics and language seriously.
Children’s innocence and fantasies are wonderful things, but they are denied by the adults. Although these adults were once children, when they grow up, they gradually forget the innocence and innocence of childhood. Curious, assimilated by politics and society. This is something that the narrator feels disgusted with.
And when he met the little prince, even the narrator himself had become an "adult". It was the sincerity and charm of the little prince that made him pick up his almost lost heart.
When the little prince asked the narrator: "What's the use of those thorns?", the narrator, the pilot, was getting caught in the plane by repairing the plane, so he perfunctorily said: "The thorns are useless at all, they are just for Show the malice of the flowers." The little prince thought for a moment and questioned this, but the pilot interrupted him: "Don't bother! I have serious things to do!"
小王子Surprised: "Serious thing!"
The little prince stared at the "pilot with a hammer in his hand and black oil on his fingers, who is bending over to play with a machine that looks very ugly to him." You speak like an adult!" "You confuse everything...you confuse everything!"
The angry little prince talked about the idleness he encountered on a certain planet but he was serious Mr. Red Face, and talked about his roses. In his opinion, thinking about whether the rose's thorns has a protective effect is much more serious than the so-called serious business of the pilot-repairing airplanes! Because that is his rose, that is his love, a part of his life!
At this time, the pilot felt ashamed and realized that he had turned the cart before the horse, and he held up the real trivial matters in the eyes of adults, while ignoring the really important things in this world-emotions and heart.
2. The world of adults: Put the cart before the horse, a vicious circle
The most fairytale part of "The Little Prince", on the surface, is the few characters that the little prince saw after leaving the roses Up.
The first king on asteroid 325, he is addicted to power, but has no people. As long as he meets people, he thinks he is his people. He clearly couldn't control the behavior of the people, but he had to pretend that any behavior of the people was under his instruction, hypocritical and boring. The little prince wanted to watch the sunset. The king said that it would be at the right time—that is, at sunset. The character of this character is absurd and ridiculous.
The second person is a person who admires vanity. He likes others to applaud him, and then he takes off his hat to thank him, "Vanity people can only hear praise."
The third person is an alcoholic, Drinking is because you feel ashamed, and ashamed is because you are ashamed because of drinking. It is like an endless loop, which can never be stopped. Indulging in shame, and continuing to do things that make you ashamed, in fact, it is negatively coping with the real worldPeople with all kinds of pressure in life are the same.
The fourth person is a person who counts stars. He thinks he thinks about this for the first time, so the stars belong to him. He owns these stars. He needs to write down the numbers and put them in the bank. Go buy more stars. The little prince felt more and more strange to the adults. He thought: "His way of thinking is a bit like the person who loves to drink."
The fifth person is a lamp holder who keeps turning off the lights and turning the planet around every minute. , Which meant that day and night alternated in one minute, so he had to keep holding the lamp. He felt tired, but he was still dedicated to his duties. This was the only thing that made the little prince feel something meaningful.
The sixth is a geographer. The geographer does not go out to explore on his own, but relies on the dictation of the explorer to study geography. This is a behavior lacking practical testing, and the results are naturally not enough. It is credible, this image is very much like people who do not do practical things in reality, in their place and do not seek politics.
Six kinds of strange planets and strange people, representing various absurd behaviors of people in real society, or being confused by vanity or power, losing themselves, or being greedy and selfish Narrow-minded, or indulged in failure and difficult to extricate themselves and go to the abyss of even more failure... They are all controlled by those things that are not really important, or the orders of others, or all kinds of pressures and poisons. The only thing in common is- -Loss of own inner value.
After meeting these strange people, the little prince slowly understood where his heart was. He began to worry about his roses, regretting and uneasy about his decision to leave hastily.
3. The process of understanding is painful. Happiness is always accompanied by pain.
Only when you have experienced love can you understand love; only when you have experienced life can you understand life.
When I was a child, I read "The Little Prince", and I always seemed to understand. Sometimes I like it, even just because it has a layer of "world famous" filter, and it is full of fantasy and metaphors, so I vaguely think that this is a good work.
But thinking about it now, I never really walked into this story at that time. Many people, like me, only understand the warmth and sadness hidden between the lines in "The Little Prince" when they grow up.
Fox said: "I got the benefit because of the color of wheat."
The little prince said: "She is my rose." "You people here will be in the garden There are five thousand roses planted in it...but they can't find what they want."
Rose said: "I used to be stupid... I'm sorry. I wish you happiness."
After many years, suddenly Understand the meaning of roses. The hidden mind, the value that is needed, and the relationship involved all make her a unique rose. Those four weak thorns now seem so innocent and cute.
Life is too lonely, it's better to grow into a baobab tree, free, and the big deal is cut down by the little prince. Apart from growing up, there are no worries in life. Regardless of whether it is a fox, the little prince, a rose or a pilot, they are undoubtedly more valuable than the baobab tree that only grows wildly, but they also have to face growth, encounter and parting, even if there is happiness in them, but happiness It never appeared alone—happiness and pain accompany.
The little prince met a fox, and the fox told him the meaning of "domestication", that is, to create a relationship, that is, to establish a bond and a relationship that is "needed".
The original text says:
"Create relationship?"
'Yes,' said the fox,'For me, you are nothing more than a child, and others Thousands of children make no difference. I do not need you. You don't need me either. To you, I am nothing more than a fox, no different from thousands of other foxes. But if you domesticate me, then we will need each other. You are unique to me, and I am unique to you...'
In this way, the little prince domesticated the fox, and this process is not completely sweet, just like human loveLove and friendship, because the fox knew that there would be parting from the very beginning, as he said: "I have tasted the price of happiness." When waiting for someone, even the time of his coming every day will make her restless. , Anxiety and hard to endure, here is the care and longing, which is the mood that can only be felt after the entanglement.
How many men and women in love have experienced this mood?
There is also a "domestication" and demand relationship between the little prince and the rose. Unfortunately, the little prince realized this after being reminded by the fox.
The encounter between Rose and the little prince was accidental. One day, I don't know which wind blew a seed, and the little prince watered it carefully. One day, she suddenly bloomed, charming and charming. The little prince was shocked by her beauty, agreed to all her requests, and took care of her. Rose was arrogant and proud. Her careful thoughts were hidden under her pride. Before she could reveal her, she had hurt the little prince with her stupid words. The little prince felt exhausted and began to question all of this. He chose Left.
Rose was sad, but still proud. She wished him happiness, but her heart was broken. She asked him to remove the glass cover and said that she didn’t need it anymore, which actually heralded , Rose’s fate will not last long. After all, she only has four trivial thorns. After all, her lifespan is limited. After all, there are so many dangers on the B612. Even geographers say that flowers are a matter of a moment.
But the little prince didn't know, his departure really became a goodbye. Therefore, the film adapted from "The Little Prince" also follows this idea at the end: when the little prince finally remembered his roses and returned to his little planet with the little girl through hardships, the glass cover opened and the roses had withered.
That is irretrievable love, it is the pain that has been missed, it is difficult to have, it is like love and marriage in reality, when you encounter love when you don’t understand anything, the two parties still don’t understand what love is. What, unknowingly, it caused harm to the other party, so one party fled from sweet to one party, the other party was heartbroken or waiting, but some people waited, some people didn't.
So, to understand "The Little Prince" is actually a sad thing.
