A CONFLICTS PICTURED IN ANTOINE DE SAINT’S NOVEL
THE LITTLE PRINCE
A PAPER
BY
ABUN FAUJI SARAGIH
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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH SUMATERA
FACULTY OF CULTURE STUDIES
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ABSTRACT
ABSTRAK
Kertas karya yang berjudul “ A Conflicts Pictured in Antoine De Saint’s Novel The Little
Prince” ini membahas tentang Little prince dan seluruh perselisihan, bercerita tentang
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.
First of all, I would like to thank and praise to the Almighty God, Allah SWT for
blessing and giving me health, strength and ease to accomplish this paper as one of the
requirements to get Diploma III certificate from English Department Faculty of Culture
Study, University of North Sumatera.
Then, I would like to express a deep gratitude, love, and appreciation to:
1) My beloved parents, Ridwan S and Fatimah Sinaga for their loves, patience, prays,
and finance in completing this paper. They know how much I love them.
2) My extended family, my sisters and brother, Mardiah S, Haditsah S, Sa’diyah S,
Rahimah S and Hamdani S. i thank for them, all their motivations, cares, and
advices.
3) Dr.Matius C.A. Sembiring, MA as the Head of English Diploma Study Program,
who gives me a lot of knowledge.
4) Dra. Syahyar Hanum, DPFE as my supervisor, who has given directions, advice,
critics, and precious time in reading and correcting for it’s completeness.
5) Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A., as the Dean of Faculty of Letters, University of North
Sumatera.
Finally, I do realize that this paper is still far from being perfect. Therefore, I welcome
any constructive critics and suggestions towards this paper.
Medan, 2013
The Writer
ABSTRACT
ABSTRAK
Kertas karya yang berjudul “ A Conflicts Pictured in Antoine De Saint’s Novel The Little
Prince” ini membahas tentang Little prince dan seluruh perselisihan, bercerita tentang
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the Study
Art and literature have the strong relation, those are two great things. Literature is
the art of telling story to someone, either orally or written. By reading literary works, you can
read the art of language it’s the beautiful thing if you can recognize such things when you
read the works.
Novel reflects the transformation of the relationship between literature and art. Novel is
an invented prose narrative of considerable a length and a certain complexity that deals
imaginatively with human experience, usually through a connected sequence of events
involving a group of persons in a spesific setting.
The writer is more interested in literature, and has chosen Santo Antoine De Saint’s
novel The Little Prince as the subject matter of this paper. The little prince is a fiction
novel and classic tale of equal appeal to adults and children, written by an author Antoine
De Saint first published in 1943. The novel was translated into more than 250 languages and
dialects including braille, selling over a million copies in year with sales on totaling more
than 140 million copies worldwide, it has become one of the best-selling books ever
published.
The good qualities of this novel are a relatable plot and cool pictures, the readers
can actually see the picture forming from the description and the pictures. The storyline
is mostly about I who is an airplane pilot, recollecting his favorite pictures when he was a six
year old boy. This continued until six years earlier when his plane had crashed in the Sahara
desert. He was thousand miles from home and faced with a life or death situation. I as a
the little prince, who is examining the narrator, looking nothing like a child lost in the middle
of the dessert. The narrator insists that these details are not a concession to his grown-ups can
only understand facts and figures, without ever wondering about other essential qualities,
such as beauty and love.
1.2. Scope of the Study
The writer sure that there are many important aspected of the novel can be discussed.
The writer only limit the topic. In writing the paper the writer only focuses about one of the
intrinsic element of novel that is conflict. In the novel The Little Prince I would like to split
the conflict into two parts:
1) Major Conflict, consists of Narrator “I” and Little Prince
2) Minor Conflict, consists of King, Businessman, Astronomer and Geographer.
1.3. Purpose of the Study
The purpose of the study are:
a) By writing this paper the writer wants to explore and find out some conflicts in the novel
The Little Prince specifically to I who is trying to know about livelihood in the atmosphere
specially planet and Little Prince always to help him
b) He also hopes that this paper can increase our knowledge about the conflict in a novel
1.4. Significance of the Study
After reading a series of The Little Prince the writer decides to choose the second sequel
it because he thought that Prince series have more complicated plot and conflict then other
series then this series presented with funny perspective.
1.5. The Method of the Study
In writing this paper the writer uses a library research. Beside that the writer also try to
understand the plot in the novel for many times in order to be able to identify the conflict in
the novel itself. The writer also searches the information and data from internet about the
2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Theme
The theme is the basic element that dominates the subject matter of a literary work. The
theme is the starting point in compiling the work of literary authors. This theme is to be
conveyed and solved by the author through his story. The theme becomes the basis of
development of the whole story, the theme was nature animates all parts of the story from
beginning to end. Theme or themes refer to the result of general and abstract thinking of a
writing. In this part, idea becomes the general thinking of the novel. In literary study the
consideration of themes relates to meaning, interpretation, explanation, and significance.
Though themes are usually extensive and complex, separate ideas may be named by a single
word.
The theme of the story is an interview of the novel. The theme of the novel usually
derived from the human conflicts of everyday life, including romance, heroism, war, and
friendship. The theme of a novel is more than its subject matter, because an author’s
technique can play as strong a role in developing a theme as the actions of the characters do.
Fiction embody the ideas and issues. Even the story is written to entertain any ideas or be in a
position. With this, the author of comic masterpiece is committed to the ideas that became the
difficulty of humor into a serious man who may be forced to the make moral choice the
character to difficult, in thinking that in a situation of losing the only option is to maintain the
main idea, which is formed to bind the work together. The author often makes the obvious
theme.
Themes distilled from the motifs contained in the relevant work that determines the
presence of events, conflicts, and situations. The theme became the basis of the development
of the whole story, so he is animating the whole story. A common theme has a generalization,
wider, and abstract. Principal themes as the meaning of a work of fiction is not deliberately
hidden because precisely this that is offered to the reader. However, the overall theme is the
meaning of which supported his story by itself would be hidden behind a story that supports
it.
Roberts (1993:361) states that although a single word may name an idea, it does not
operate as an idea until it is put into a sentence or assertion. In other words, an idea needs a
subject and predicate before we can use it as a basis of understanding. It is important to
recognize than an assertion of an idea is not the same as an ordinary sentence.
We can say that a single word as an idea after we build it into a sentence which needed a
subject, predicate and the other supporting parts like in an ordinary sentence. But we need to
know deeper that even though both build on subject and predicate, an idea is not the same as
an ordinary sentence. We need to recognize the both parts by analyzing the meaning of the
sentence or the idea.
Without no consideration to analyze the sentence, it could be difficult to recognize
which one of both. Ideas are presented along with the expression of implication that certain
conditions and standards should be highly valued.
complex. A theme is a controlling idea or set off ideas that states or summarizes the dominant
content of a passage, poem, novel or drama. While stating a texts theme as a single statement
could be far too reductive, running the risk of totalizing a texts complexity into one
presenting idea a number of interrelated themes could illustrate that complexity in a fair way.
Theme as the developer part in a novel, must be related with the other elements to build
a good story. As a necessary part in a novel, it is important to know clearly what is the theme.
Because it just has a little different with an ordinary sentence. The theme of the novel is more
than its subject matter, because an authors technique can play as strong a rule in developing a
theme as the action of characters do. Sometimes because of the length of novels and the
various characters, conflict, and scenes, found within them, reader can look at different
aspects of the work to uncover different interpretations the meaning of the tale.
The novel is work of prose fiction written in the narrative, usually in story form. The
novelist known novelist. The word comes from the Italian novel novella which means “a
story or piece of news”. The novel is a literary form of the most popular in the world. This
form of literature the most outstanding, because the vast power of communication in society.
As literature, the novel can be divided into two groups, namely the work seriously and works
of entertainment, but not all are able to provide entertainment could be called serious
literature. A serious novel that he demanded not only a work of beautiful, attractive, and thus
also provide entertainment for us. But he also demanded more than that. The novel is a novel
Novella, new things) is an extended work of prose fiction, longer than a short story or a
medium, length fiction, called a novelette or novella.
Rees (1973:106) says that novel is a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length in
which character and action representative of real live are portrayed in a plot of more or less
complexity. In the Indonesian language novel is distinguished from romance. A novel is more
complex plot and the number or character too much. Second opinion on the understanding of
the novel is almost the same, except that the words to express a different opinion. The novel
has five elements, namely setting, theme, character, plot style and point of view.
2.2. Conflict
Rich characterization can be effectively and quite consciously achieved by producing a
conflict between methods of presentation. A character can be directly revealed to us through
appearance, speech, action, and thought. If you set one of these methods at odds with the
others, then dramatic tension will be produced. Imagine, for example, a character who is
impeccable and expensively dressed, who speaks eloquently, who acts decisively, and whose
mind is revealed to us as full of order and determination. He is inevitably a flat character. But
suppose that he is impeccable, eloquent, decisive, and that his mind is a mess of wounds and
panic. He is at once interesting.
The controlling impulse in a connected pattern of causes and effects is conflict, which
refers generally to people or circumstances that a character often the protagonist must face
and try to overcome often the antagonist. Conflict brings out the extremes of human energy,
causing character to engage in the decisions, actions, responses, and interactions that make up
In its most elemental form, a conflict is the opposition of two people. Their conflict may
take the shape of envy, hatred, anger, argument, avoidance, gossip, lies, fighting, and many
other forms and actions. Conflicts may also exist between groups, although conflicts between
individuals are more identifiable and therefore more suitable for stories. Conflicts may also
be abstract, such as when an individual opposes larger forces like natural objects, ideas,
modes of behavior, public opinion, and the like. A difficult or even impossible choice a
dilemma is a natural conflict for an individual person. A conflict may also be brought out in
ideas and opinions that may clash. In short, conflict shows itself in many ways.
Conflict, doubt, tensi, and interest. Conflict is the major element of plot because
opposing forces arouse curiosity, cause doubt, create tension, and produce interest. The same
responses are the lifeblood of athletic competition. Consider which kind of game is more
interesting : (1) One team gets so far ahead that the winner is no longer in doubt. (2) Both
teams are so evenly matched that the winner is in doubt even in the final seconds. Obviously,
every game should be a tense contest between teams of comparable strength. The same
applies to conflicts in stories. There should be uncertainty about a protagonist’s success, for
unless there is doubt there is no tension, and without tension there is no interest.
Conflict in literature is a struggle between or among character or forces in a story that
creates the action of a plot.
There are five main types of conflict in literature. Conflict is drama between two
2. Character struggling internally with self, sometimes conflict is internal. When character
struggles with moral dilemmas, emotional challenges or desires he or she deems unsovary,
the conflict is with the characters own soul or conscience.
3. Character struggling against forces of nature, sometimes all the character in the book are
the good guys and the conflict in the book is between all the people and forces of nature that
are out the characters control.
4. Character struggling against society, when the character is repressed by society and not by
a specific character, the conflict take place between that character and society.
5. Character struggling against fantasy, this type of conflict is usually found in specific genres
of literary style, such as fantasy, science fiction, horror and supernatural books.
In generally, conflict should not be regarded as an isolated event that can be resolved or
managed, but as an integral part of society on going evolution and development. On the other
hand, conflict should not be understand solely as an inherently negative and destructive
occurance, but rather as a potentially positive and productive force for change if harnessed
constructively. Conflict transformation goes beyond merely seeking to contain and manage
conflict, instead seeking to transform the root causes themselves or the perceptions of the root
causes of a particular conflict.
2.3. Setting
Roberts (1987:230) says “The setting of the story can mean many things besides the
obvious where it takes place including the location, the background, and the regional aspect.
it can designate a particular time, and historical era, a political situation. from the setting of
including everything that characters know and own.” From the study of the setting would be
known the extent of conformity and correlation between behavior and temperament with the
community leaders, social situation, and opinion of society. Besides the condition of the area,
geography, social structure also determines the characteristics or character of certain figures.
When the reader read a fiction, truthfully, they are facing a world in a possibility, a world
that had been completed by the character and the problem. But of course, those things are less
completed because the character need space, place, and time, like human life in real world. In
other words, fiction as a world not only need character, story, and plots but also need setting.
The story must always include descriptions of places, objects, and the background is the
setting. The author uses the setting to create meaning, such as painters, including background
and objects to create ideas. Setting can have an effect on the characters, the actions, and the
mood of the story. Sometimes a story unfolds in more than one place within the general
setting, such as into two different houses or at home and at school.
Rene and Austin (1982:131) says that setting refers to geographical location of the
story, time period, daily lifestyle of the characters and climate of the story and Robert and
Jacobs (1987:230) says that the setting is the natural, manufactured, political, and temporal
environment, including everything that character know and own. Setting is divided into three
types: natural and outdoors, the subject of human manufactured and construction, and cultural
condition and assumptions.
author includes details about the building and the objects and construction of home, both
interior and exterior, in general, also as property sticks like running, fencing, benches parks,
toys, car notes, necklaces, hair ribbons, cash register, and so on, and last culture conditions
and assumptions, the effect of setting it up just a physical character, as well as cultural
conditions and assumptions.
Setting in literary work is important because it may stir the reader imagination as well
as reveal the significance of the action. The element of setting can be differential into three
principle elements: setting of place, setting of time, and setting of society. Although each of
these elements offer situations but actually they are close and influence each other.
a. Setting of Place
Setting of place directs to the location of the event that happen in fiction, setting use for
place with a certain names, certain initial and probably in a certain location do not have the
exact name and the function of this setting with a certain name should reflect geographical
condition of the place. Each place must have its own characteristics which differentiate with
others. The description of place is important to give impression to the readers, so the readers
can consider which one that really happen or made up event imagination from the place in the
story. The setting of place to another places, because there is a development of plot and
character. Setting of place is decided by the accuracy of description, function of the unity
with another setting element.
b. Setting of Time
Setting of time means when the time of the story happened. The problem of when
story, which is based on the setting of time. It makes the story brings the readers to the certain
time. The knowledge and the perception of the readers will be used to get involved in the
story which is based on the setting of the time. It makes the reader try to competence and
enjoy the story. The existence of similarity development and accordance of the time can be
profitable to give an impression to the readers and make the readers believe that the story
really happened at the time.
c. Setting of Society
Setting of society is very close to the behavior of social life in certain place and certain
time in novel. Social setting has connection with the system of social life that contains many
problems in complex scope. It can be habits, custom, tradition, religion, ideology, faith, and
the way of thinking. Apart from it setting of society relates to the social status of the
characters.
2.4. Point of View
Roberts (1995:55) says “Point of view is the voice of the story, the speaker who does the
narrating. It is the way the reality of a story is made to seem authentic. It may be regarded as
the story’s focus, the angle of vision from which things are not only seen and reported but
also judge. A story may be told by a fictitious “observer” who tell us about what he or she
saw, heard, concluded, and thought.” Roberts (1995:55) says that the other important point of
revelation of the thought of any of the characters unless the characters themselves make this
revelations dramatically.
Understanding point of view often requires subtlety indeed, it may be one of the most
difficult of all concepts in study of fiction. In fuller perspective, therefore we may think of it
as the total position from which things are viewed, understood, and communicated. The
position might be simply physical: where was the speaker located when the events occurred,
or does the speaker give us a close or distant view of the events. In the various works we can
read we will encounter a wide variety of points of view, generally it can be divided into: first
person, third person, and mixed point of view.
Point of view refers to the positions and stance of the voice, or speaker, that author
adopt for their works. It supposes a living narrator or personal, who tell stories, present
arguments, or expresses attitudes such as love, anger, or excitement. Practically, point of
view involves the actual physical location of this speaker and his or her positions to see and
record the main action and idea. More abstractly and psychologically, point of view may be
considered as the centralizing or guiding intelligence in a work the mind that filters the
fictional experience and present only most important details to create the maximum possible
impact. It may also be considered as a way of seeing, the perspective into which the work of
art is cast.
a. First person point of view
First person point of view is the use of first person as a narrator of a story. He/she takes
a part in action. Robert (1995:183) says that if the voice of the work is an “I”, the author is
Of all the points of view, the first person is potentially the most independent of the
author, for such a speaker is often given unique identity, with name, job, and economic and
social positions.
b. Second-Person Point of View
The second point of view, the least common of the point of view, offers the writer two
major possibilities. In the first, a narrator tells a present and involved listener what he or she
done said at a past time. The second possibility is more complex. Some narrators seem to be
addressing a “you” but are instead reffering mainly to themselves, and to listeners only
tangentially, in preference to an “I” the third person point of view can be divided into two :
Omniscient
The narrator relates what he wishes about the thought as well as the deeds of his
character. When he choose the omniscient, narrator enters the main of any or all his character.
Selected or Limited omniscient
In this point of view the narrator limits omniscient to the mind of only a few of his
characters or even to one of his character. Selective omniscient narrator enters the main of
any or all of his characters.
person with technique “He” as omniscient person “He” as observer or first person with
technique “I” as main character and “I” as a peripheral character, or maybe a mixture or first
person and third person at all one.
3. THE ANALYSIS
The Little Prince has some conflicts. In this part the writer analyze the internal conflict
and the external conflict.
3.1Internal Conflict
A. Character vs Self
There is one internal conflict appear in this novel because the novel about history. He is
I “narrator” is the main protagonist of the Little Prince. One day, he gave up a magnificent
career as a painter at the age of six. he had been disappointed by the lack of success of my
drawing no. 1 and my drawing no. 2. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves
and it is rather tedious for children to have to explain things to them time and again. he had to
choose another job and he learnt to pilot aeroplanes. He flew more or less all over the world.
And indeed geography has been extremely useful to me. He is able to distinguish between
China and Arizona at glance. It is extremely helpful if one gets lost in the night. As a result of
which he have been in touch, throughout his life, with all kinds of serious people, as quoted:
“….i have spent a lot of time with grown-ups. I have seen them at very Close quarters which I’m afraid has not greatly enhanced my opinion.”
(The Little Prince p. 11)
Whenever he met one who seemed reasonably clearsighted to me, he showed them my
drawing No 1, which he had kept, as an experiment. he wanted to find out whether he or she
Thus he lived alone, with no one he could really talk to, until he had an accident in the Sahara
Desert six years ago. He felt, something broke down in his engine. And since there was
neither a mechanic nor a passenger with him, and he prepared his self for a difficult but what
he hoped would be a succesfull repair. It was a matter of life or death for him. He had
scarcely enough drinking water for a week. Than he imagine, as quoted below:
“….. I fell asleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation. I was far more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean.” (The Little Prince p.12)
And one day Little Prince advised him to try and make a beautiful drawing so as to impress
all this upon the children where he live. Little Prince said to him: ‘if they travel one day, it
might be of use to them. It may be convenient sometimes to put off one’s work until another
day. But in the case of baobabs, it is always catastrophic to do so. He knew of a planet
inhabited by a lazy man. He had neglected three little bushes. So, basing his work upon the
descriptions of little prince, as quoted below:
He say: ‘Children. Beware of baobabs!’ it is in order to warn my friends of a danger of which
they, like me, have been unaware for so long.’’ That he had worked so hard over this
drawing. And his lesson was worth it. You may ask yourselves: why are there no other
drawings in this book as impressive as the drawing of baobabs? The answer is quite simple,
as quoted below:
“I have tried but with the others have not had the slightest success. When I drew the baobabs, I was driven by a feeling of urgency.” (The Little Prince p.28).
problem, little prince asked to him: a sheep, if it eats bushes, does it eat flowers too? Even
flowers with thorns? Then the thorns- what use are they? He answered clearly, as quoted
below:
Little prince blushed and continued: ‘if someone loves a flower of which there is only one on
the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy when he looks at them for
he can say to himself: “my flower is somewhere out there…” but if the sheep eats the flower,
it is for him as if, all of a sudden, all the stars went dark! And you think that is not important!
He could say no more because he was overcome with tears. Night had fallen. He answered, as
quoted below:
already elapsed since his little friend left him, with his sheep. For him, it’s sad to forget a
friend. Not everyone has had a friend. So that, he could become like grown-ups who are only
concerned with the figures. That is why he has bought a box of paints and some pencils.
forgiven for that. My friend never explained anything to me,
it, about his journey. The information would come very slowly, following the course of the
little prince’s thoughts. Thus it was that on the third day, he heard about the catastrophe of
the baobabs. Once again, it was thanks to the sheep, for suddenly the little prince questioned
him as if seized by a gravedoubt: ‘it is true, is it not, that sheep eat little shrubs?’ but he
confused to answer the question, as quoted below:
He was beginning to fear he had come to the wrong planet when a coil, pale gold as the
moon, moved in the sand. He met with the snake and he ask the snake about the people on the
earth. Then the little prince sat down on a stone and looked up at the sky. He wonder and say,
as quoted below:
“I wonder, if the stars are lit up so that ach one of us can find his own star again. Look at my planet. It is right above us….but how far away it is!” (The Little Prince p.68)
However, the little prince, having walked for a long time through the desert, the rocks
and the snow, at last came upon a road. And all roads lead to men. He meet with the Roses,
the little prince gazed at them. They all resembled his flower.
And he was suddenly overcome with sadness. His flower had told him that she was the
single garden! And he would have to pretend to nurse her, for otherwise she would really let
herself die….in order to humiliate me.’ And he said to himself once again, as quoted below:
“I thought I was rich, with a flower unique in the world,
imagined to catch up with him, he was walking along with a quick and resolute step. A man
merely said to him: ‘oh! You are here..’ after that, he took him by the hand. But he was still
worrying. ‘you should not have come. You will be unhappy. I shall look as if I were dead and
it will not be true. You must understand. It is too far. I cannot carry this body with me. It is
too heavy. It will look like an old abandoned shell, not anything to be sad about.’ He said
nothing. A man was a little discouranged. But he made one last effort.
Then, a man said: ‘you know my flower.. I am responsible for her. And she is so weak,
so trusting. She has four tiny thorns to protect herself against the world..’ He sat down
because he could not remain standing any longer.
There was nothing more than a flash of yellow close to his ankle. He stood motionless
for a moment. He did not cry out. He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even the
slightest sound, because of the sand. But one thing worries him, as quoted below:
prince, in spite of the goodwill his love engendered towards her, came gradually to doubt her.
He had taken words of no importance seriously and become very unhappy. And he confided
further, as quoted below:
There are many external conflicts that appear in The Little Prince. However the writer
will choose based on the importance of their roles that influence the character and story itself.
On the fifth day, and once again thanks to the sheep, this secret of the little prince’s life
was revealed to him. Without any preamble and as if it were the result of a silently thought
out problem. The little prince never let go of a question once he had raised it. But after a
moment silence, he said with a kind of resentfulness: ‘ I don’t believe you. Flowers are weak.
He did not answer. At that instant he was saying to his self: he shall knock it off with a
hammer.’ Once again, the little prince intruded upon his thought, as quoted below:
“No! No! I don’t believe anything. I just answered any old how. I am busy with serious matters.” He could see me with a hammer in my hand and my fingers black with engine grease, bending down over an object which seemed to him extremely ugly. (The Little Prince p.32)
On earth, of course, we are far too small to sweep our volcanoes. That is why they
cause us so much trouble. The little prince tore up, not without a sense of sorrow, the last
little baobab shoots. He believed that he would never have to return. But all these familiar
activities seemed very precious to him on that last morning. And, when he watered the flower
“Goodbye, ‘he said to the flower.’’ But she did not answer him.
who wrote voluminous books. “Look! Here comes an explorer!” he cried out when he saw
the little prince. The little prince sat down on the table, catching his breath. It seemed he had
been travelling for so long! And he cast a quick look around him at the geographer’s planet.
Never before had he seen such a magnificent planet, as quoted below:
“Your planet is very beautiful. Are there any oceans?’
the little prince invites the fox to come and play with him. But the fox refused it that he
cannot play with him. The little prince is looking for a man. And the fox said it is a real
nuisance. They also raise chickens. Those are the only activities they are interested in. they
debate, as quoted below:
rose looked just like you, but she is far more important than all of
annoyed about his bolt and he answered with the first thing that came to his mind: flowers
have them out of sheer spite.’ But after a moment silence, he said with a kind of
resentfulness, as quoted below:
“I don’t believe you. Flowers are weak. They are naïve. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible.” (The Little Prince p.31)
He found himself in the neighbourhood of the asteroid. So he started by visiting them
to look for an occupation and to add to his knowledge. The first one was inhabited by a king.
Clad in purple and ermine, he was seated on a throne, both simple and majestic. He did not
know that for kings the world is greatly simplified. To them, all men are subjects. The little
prince looked around to find a place to sit down, but the entire planet was covered by the
magnificent ermine robe. So he remained standing and, since he was tired, he yawned, as
4. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
4.1 Conclusion
After analyzing the conflict of the novel The Little Prince in the previous chapter the
writer get some conclusion as follow:
1 No gain without pain.
2 Whatever our friend have been done to us bad or good, they still understand us, they are
the most important thing in our live, because if we are in trouble is they will help us.
3 Love and care to someone who loves you.
4 Every children has experiences, whether bad or from friends or their environment, they
must have the courage to face.
5 A good child is a child who loves and respects his parents, family and their friends and live
peacefully with people around them.
4.2 Suggestion
Having completed this paper, the writer has suggestion that the novel has a morality
message that a good human who is always respectful and obedient to another human and
always love your friends even though you always fight them, but remember that they are our
siblings you must protect and love.
In this paper the writer only discusses about the conflict although there are many other
important elements contain. Besides, by reading this novel the reader can enrich their
vocabulary, improve their English and get more knowledge about event that happen in the
society. He expects this paper can provide something helpful for readers in studying the
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APPENDICES
The Biography of Antoine De Saint
Antoine De Saint wasborn in Lyon in an aristocratic family which could trace its
lineage back several centuries, the third of five children of Marie de fonscolombe and comte
Jean de Saint Exupery. His father was an executive of the Le Soleil insurance brokerage, who
died of a stroke in Lyon's La Foux train station before his son's fourth birthday. His father's
death would greatly impact the entire family, changing Saint-Exupery’s status to that of an
"impoverished aristocrat".
After failing his final exams at a preparatory Naval Academy (intentionally, some
believe), Saint-Exupery entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts as an auditor to study architecture
for fifteen months, again without graduating, and then fell into the habit of accepting odd
jobs. In 1921, he began his military service with the 2e Regiment de chasseurs à cheval (2nd
Regiment of Light Cavalry) and is sent to Neuhof, near Strasbourg. While there he took
private flying lessons and the following year was offered a transfer from the French Army to
the Air Force, where he received his wings after being posted to the 37th Fighter Regiment in
Casablanca, Morocco.
Saint-Exupery’s first novella, "1’Aviateur" (the aviator), was published in a
short-lived literary magazine le Navire d'argent (The Silver Ship).
In 1929, his first book, Courrier sud (Southern Mail) would be published; his career
as an aviator and journalist is about to burgeon, and that same year he flew Casablanca–
became the winner of the prix Femina. The novel mirrored his experiences as a mail pilot and
director of the Aeroposta.
On December 30, 1935 at 02:45 a.m., after 19 hours and 44 minutes in the air,
Saint-Exupéry, along with his mechanic-navigator André Prévot, crashed in the Sahara desert. They
were attempting to break the speed record in a Paris-to-Saigon air race (called a raid) and win
a prize of 150,000 francs.
Saint-Exupery continued to write until the spring of 1943, when he left the United
States with American troops bound for North Africa in World War II. During the war, he
initially flew a Bloch MB.170 with the GR II/33 reconnaissance squadron of the Armee de
l'Air. After France's 1940 armistice with Germany, he voyaged to North America, escaping
through Portugal and arriving in New York on the last day of 1940 with the intention of
convincing the U.S. to quickly enter the conflict against Nazi Germany.
On one flight he circled the airport for an hour after returning, so that he could finish reading
a novel, to the chagrin o f his colleagues awaiting his arrival. Saint exupery frequently
flew with a lined notebook (carnet) during his long solitary flights, and some of his
philosophical writings were created during such periods when he could reflect on the world
THE SUMMARIES
The book starts with the narrator, who is an airplane pilot, recollecting his favorite
picture when he was a six-year-old boy. The picture was of a boa constrictor eating a
large animal. He recalls how a boa constrictor cannot move after swallowing its prey, and
must hibernate for the six months until its food has been digested. Fascinated by this story,
he had drawn his first drawing, Drawing Number One, which showed a boa constrictor
devouring an elephant. When he showed his picture to the elders he was surprised to see
that they couldn't make out what it was and were not frightened of it either as he had
hoped they would be. They couldn't understand why anyone would be frightened of a hat,
which is what they interpreted the drawing to be. But his picture was not a hat but rather, a
boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
He then drew the inside of the boa constrictor in another picture, Drawing Number
Two, where the elephant could be seen clearly. But the grown-ups advised the narrator to
give up drawing and pursue geography, arithmetic and grammar. Disheartened by his
failure to become a painter, he realizes how difficult it is for children to always be
explaining something to grown-ups. So the narrator learned to be a pilot, noting that the
geography he learned did prove to be useful but tha t his opinion of adults did not
improve: whenever one would see Drawing Number One, they would think it was a hat.
Consequently, he could no longer talk about boa constrictors or stars with anybody.
This continued until six years earlier when his plane had crashed in the Sahara desert.
He was thousand miles from home and faced with a life or death situation. The narrator
was shocked to hear an odd little voice asking him to draw a sheep. He turns to see the
Number One to the little prince instead. The little prince examines the drawing and says
that he doesn't want a picture of an elephant inside a boa constrictor. Finally after a couple
of attempts he is able to draw a box with a sheep inside it, and the little prince is very
happy
The narrator and the little prince become friends and he tries to Find out where the
little prince comes from, but the little prince is more concerned With the pilot's plane,
laughing at its broken parts. The little prince is comforted By the fact that the narrator also
comes from the sky, asking him what planet he Comes from. The pilot is surprised at this
question and in turn tries to find out hat planet the little prince comes from. The little prince
ignores the question and admires the pilot's drawing of the sheep in a box. The pilot offers to
draw a string to tie to the sheep so he won't get lost, but the little prince laughs. The sheep
will not get lost he says, because on the planet where he lives everything is very small
The narrator is surprised to discover that the planet the little prince Comes from is
very small and only the size of a house. In fact, it is an Asteroid called B-612, which is only
visible through a telescope. The narrator claims that a Turkish astronomer had sighted the
little prince's asteroid in 1909, but that no one Would seriously believe anybody wearing
traditional Turkish clothes. After a Turkish dictator ordered all his subjects to change
to European clothing, the astronomer successfully presented his report again in 1920.
he notes that a child would accept the little prince's existence based solely on the fact that
he wanted a sheep, while an adult would care only that the little prince came from Asteroid
