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The book report of little prince 李娜 外汉1002班 101120222 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry，the author of little prince, a France who have double identity-- ?pilot and writer. He was born in Lyon, France in 1900, and work as a pilot for French Air force. Then he joined the Second World War when German fascist invaded France in 1939. In 1940, France lost the war and he began his was exiled to America with a severely wounded body. But he urged to return to the battlefield and he succeeded in 1943. On July 31, 1944 morning, he was carrying out his last task as a pilot, and this 44 aged man never came back. It’s became the most mysterious thing in French literary history. During his life he never let up his effort to writing. He had only six work were published, but each of them was famous and popular, like night service, people’s land. His work usually used plants as writing tool, form the height of the universe, to observe the world, to explore life. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was considered to be one of the person who first to pay attention to the condition of humans. The little prince was written in 1942 in US. And it was voted be the best book of the 20th century in France, translated into more than 250 languages and dialects. It has become one of the best-selling books. The reader is introduced to the narrator who, as a young boy, drew a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. However, he is discouraged from drawing when all adults who look at his picture see a hat, instead. The narrator attempts to explain what his first picture depicts by drawing another one clearly showing the elephant, disturbing the adults as a result. As such, he decides to become a pilot, which eventually leads to a crash in the Sahara desert. In the desert, the narrator meets the little prince, who recognizes the drawing for what it is. The litt