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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exup
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1947)

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
There is a link between Neverland and Asteroid B-612, from The Little Prince created by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Peter Pan. The innocence of childhood lies in the literary world shared by both characters. Entrenched in their universe, they frozen the time to prevent them to be corrupted by the experience. The Prince left his world in research of adventure and found in each planet a part of human soul.
The Little Prince can be read on two different levels. It's a children's book, yet each and every character brings a universal message. The story is about the "beautiful and sad passage of the world", in which adults cannot appreciate the things that children do even though they also were children once.
The booklet is a catalog of morals. But there are no penalties, purges, prohibitions and denials. It's timeless; you can read it yesterday, today and tomorrow. His teaching is simple even if it contains all the complexity of the world, the human seen as universal beings.

NARROW-MINDED PERSPECTIVE
The Little Prince exposes the ignorance that accompanies an incomplete and narrow-minded perspective. Even the protagonists of The Little Prince have their moments of narrow-mindedness. In Chapter XVII, the narrator confesses that his previous description of Earth focused too much on humans. In Chapter XIX, the little prince mistakes the echo of his own voice for that of humans and falsely accuses humans of being too repetitive. Such quick judgments, the story argues, lead to the development of dangerous stereotypes and prejudices. They also prevent the constant questioning and open-mindedness that are important to a well-adjusted and happy life.
For the most part, The Little Prince characterizes narrow-mindedness as a trait of adults. In the very first chapter, the narrator draws a sharp contrast between the respective ways

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