Meaning: the passing of life.
The little prince is the only one on his planet. The planet is too small, and the sunset is always so fleeting. One day he watched the sunset forty-three times.
He said calmly: You know, people like to watch the sunset when they feel sad.
In the story of the little prince, watching the sunset is constantly mentioned. I think he is really sad! Because I didn't understand before, I left his rose easily. Now he misses his tender roses. I think he will go back after all, thinking that there is his beautiful place there.
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Looking for the "authenticity" of life from a child's perspective
Fairy tales are what open up children's minds Primary media. Children develop their thinking and understand the world through the wonderful plots shown in fairy tales, and can intuitively recognize beauty and ugliness, good and evil, good and bad. Therefore, while reading stories, children can "establish a certain moral judgment schema deep in their hearts, which will have an impact on their future growth."
In fairy tales, there is always an eternal theme expressed. The theme is that children must be stronger than adults. They dare to pursue fantasies like fantasy, can do things that adults cannot achieve, and can also discover the true nature of life that adults cannot understand.
In fairy tales, children are endowed with unique human inspiration and can keenly capture the mysteries of the universe and life that have not yet shown sufficient signs, thus showing the magic of life. In "The Little Prince", the author amplifies children's keen intuition and achieves the purpose of exploring the "authentic" meaning of life through the little prince's continuous understanding of the world.
“The author gives the little prince the wisdom of adults and the innocence of children. From the identity and perspective of a child, he enters and exits the adult world to tell the story of the lost beauty that has been forgotten during the growth of children” in order to achieve “their demands” "The lost spiritual home of modern man".
The child-like innocent perspective of the Little Prince penetrates the simple surface of life, goes straight to the inner life, and deeply explores the simplest truth of life originating from the depths of the soul. The power of the soul, sincere emotions and innocent beauty that have been ignored by the adult world unfold in the pure eyes of the little prince, thus highlighting the value of the "authentic" world.
Baidu Encyclopedia-The Little Prince