It's a fantastic book that is sort of written for kids and mostly written for "grown-ups." I read it every year (in the original French) with my high school French students. The underlying philosophical question is do you see a hat, or do you see the elephant inside the boa? Do you see only what's in front of your face, or do you have the ability/imagination to see what might be under the surface? But the grown-ups can't see that because they lost that ability when they grew up. Indeed, it is a boa constrictor eating an elephant. In the book, he then shows a drawing of what the picture would look like if it wasn't colored in).
CHAPTER 3 It was a long time before I could learn anything about the world he came from. And that is how I first met the little prince. In the book it said: Boa constrictors swallow. This is what it looked like: It said in the book: ‘A boa constrictor swallows its prey whole, without. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. He is very disgusted and disappointed because it's not a hat, it's a boa constrictor eating an elephant. The picture showed a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing a wild beast. The drawing looks kind of like a floppy brown hat that is colored in brown. They all laughed at him and asked why they should be scared of a hat. A boa constrictor is a very dangerous creature, and an elephant is very cumbersome. Table of Contents Chapter 1 -we are introduced to the narrator, a pilot, and his ideas. The narrator tells a story about how he drew a picture when he was a child, showed it to the grown-ups in his life and asked if it scared them. View The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry).pdf from HUMAN RESO 101 at Tata Institute of Social Sciences. In The Little Prince, there is a theme about how kids always have to explain everything to grown-ups because they never understand anything. Years later, but I can't stop myself from replying to this thread.
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