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 | These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items. | |
YMMV: The Little Prince
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- Tear Jerker: The end when the little prince returns to his asteroid.
- Or, if you interpret it differently, the prince returns post-mortem.
- And on a meta level, interpreting the narrator as Saint-Exupéry himself, who died in World War II soon after writing this novel. Then read the epilogue where the Narrator asks for word if the Prince ever returns...
- Not to mention when the prince finally realizes that he must return to his rose, and consequently must abandon his now-tame Fox. It's worse if you've seen the movie, where the Fox is played by gentle Gene Wilder.
"Ah," said the Fox, "I shall cry."
- The exchange between the narrator and the Prince in chapter 6.
"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know — one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: According to the author, it's a philosophical book under the disguise of a children's book. Then again, there's nothing saying that a philosophy book can't be for children.
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