Analysis: Chapter 1-4
Levels of Language
1. Graphology-
The pattern of written language. The shape of language on the page. It
hand
writing, slants, size, pressure, spacing and etc. Visual medium of the language.
CHAPTER
1-4
The text is written in Georgia with a
font size of “12”. There is no proper indention. Some words were written in
italized form. Most of the chapters contain pictures. There are phrases
ellipses. After the paragraph, there are graphical representations.
In this chapter, there are 2317 words,
38 paragraphs, and 210 sentences.
2. MORPHOLOGY-
The way words are constructed. Words and their constituent structures.
Morphemes, root word, and affixes.
MORPHOLOGY
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Like for example, seeing, the word “see” is the base word added with –ing
form of the verb making the word change its meaning in a context.
3. GRAMMAR/SYNTAX-
The body of rules that describe the structure of expressions in
English language. This includes the structure
of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. They way words combine with other
words to form phrases and sentences.
Complex Sentences:
I showed my
masterpiece to my grown-ups and asked whether the drawing frightened them.
Independent
Clause conjunction Subordinating Clause
One drawing goes
along all right and another has no resemblance to its object.
Independent Clause
Conjunction Subordinating
Clause
Simple Sentence:
My drawing was
not a picture hat.
Independent Clause
I saw a house that cost $20,000.
Subject Predicate
Interrogative Sentence:
Frighten? Why should anyone be
frightened by a hat?
This sentence is interrogative thus
it uses the punctuation mark that contributes to the wholes of the
sentence-question mark (?).
Exclamatory Sentence:
Draw me a sheep!
It uses exclamation point to
express the intense feeling of the text.
4. SEMANTICS-
The study of meaning of words and sentences that is used for understanding
human expression through language. The
denotative meaning of words and
sentences.
Whenever I met one of them who seemed to
me at all clear-sighted.
Clear-sighted
means having or
showing an ability to think clearly, but in this case it means having clear
vision of a thing that has been shown.
5. PHONOLOGY-
Auditory medium of language. The sound of spoken language. The way words are pronounced.
Includes alliteration, assonance, stress, intonation,
and etc.
Do you
come from another planet?
You and planet signals high stress
for words, thus, it is a question mark.
6. LEXICAL
ANALYSIS/LEXICOLOGY- Study of words that include nature function as symbols. The meaning of the word and the
words we used.
Now I stared at this sudden apparition
with my eyes fairly starting out of my head in astonishment.
astonishment -(Noun)
astonish -(Adjective)
7. PRAGMATICS/DISCOURSE
ANALYSIS- The way words and sentences are used in
everyday situations. The
meaning of language in context. The connotative
meaning.
“Hat”
“Frighten? Why should any one be frightened
by a hat?”
The literal meaning of statement is
that why should the grown-ups (child/people)
Be frightened by a hat because a
hat is just only a thing, a covering for the head that often has a brim or a
rounded or flat top and it is not a creature.
The connotative meaning of it is
that a Hat there, presented by the author, is like a creature who chewed and
digest animals either big or small.
Analysis: Chapter 5-8
Grammar and Style
Grammar and Style
The story of “the Little Prince” is a
great example of how various sentence types can be possible. Five structures of
grammar, the sentence, clause, phrase, word, morpheme, can be closely
identified.
What can we see here as a sentence is
the structure itself. Most of the sentences in the narration are complex
sentences wherein it compose/consist of dependent and independent. One can
stand as a sentence and the other depends to the sentence that can stand alone
to complete the idea it wanted to portray.
Like for example:
They sleep deep in
the heart of earth’s darkness, until some
one among them seized with the desire to awaken.
The first sentence is the independent clause and the
preceding phrase is the dependent clause which cannot stand, thus, depends its
whole thought to the first sentence.
Many sentences are embedded in the structure, it signals
anticipation to the reader which somehow contributes to the anticipatory
constituents of the story. What you have read gives you the idea of what will
happen next.
Compound structure is
also visible, like of these words, and, but, and etc.
Example:
“Why are there no other drawing in this book as magnificent and
impressive as this drawing of the boabs.”
The “and” is a word
that falls under coordinating conjunctions; so as it connects words, phrases
and even sentences.
The series of the story is accompanied by narration-dialogue
style.
The words are well
elaborated making the feature 1 of the grammar and style possible. The author
used simple words to describe a thing which is suited for the little children.
It does not follow the feature 2 style because most of the time verbs exist.
Somehow, trailing is part of the narration but we cannot say that, it covers
the whole idea of having trailing constituents because you will notice as you
read the anticipatory signals, now, when, indeed, as each day passed, etc. The
images are well grounded with the text.
Analysis: Chapter 9-12
Tone
The tone of The
Little Prince is often lonely and fragile-sounding, much like the little prince
himself, when he ventures into the world of adults in an attempt to understand
them. The writer emphasizes, throughout the story, that loneliness is what
isolates the adults rather than children because they are unable to see things
with their minds, hearts, and imagination. Both the protagonist (the little)
and secondary protagonist (the narrator) lead lonely lives because of this
isolation due to the differences between the minds of children and adults.
"So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I
could really talk to," writes the narrator, before his plane crashes in the middle of the
Sahara. He explains this in the first few chapters - living his life alone -
because this 'world of grownups' does not understand him and wishes for him to talk
of their idea of 'sensible' and 'practical' things. This made him very lonely,
not so much in a physical sense, but so that he could never really find anyone
to relate to. The narrator explains that after flat responses to his
imaginative observations to things, "'Then I would never talk to that
person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars. I would bring
myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and gold, and
politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met
such a sensible man.'" In one of my magazines is an article called,
"Popularity Truths & Lies," where popular girls talk about
their social status.
In large, red print, it says, "Lie: Popular girls are never left out or
lonely." The girls then go on to explain how sometimes, they feel as if
they are making so many friends only because of their popularity. They say that
it's great to be popular, but difficult to find someone that really wants to
befriend them for true qualities rather than social status. The situations
between the narrator of The Little Prince and these popular students is that it
seems that they would never be isolated (popular students from their admiring
peers and the supposedly sensible-minded narrator from the adult world) -
physically, at least - but inside the kind of friend they are really longing
for is someone to understand and honestly talk to in order to end the abstract
barriers between these worlds of people.
The narrator was also very lonely as a child, because he would draw creative pictures and show them to adults, who would dishearten him with ignorant comments rather than praise for his use of imagination. "The grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." His childhood loneliness progressed throughout his life until adulthood, not only because he was misunderstood, but was given a lasting impression as a young boy. His encounters with failure in the form of inability to please, a frequent social isolation factor for people in many situations (because they become afraid to assert their ideas), became a permanent breach in the worlds between himself and adults.
A sad tone also plays a major role in The Little Prince. Because he and the narrator feel so lonely in the adult world, they are cast about, feeling depressed. The little prince also feels sad and confused when he ventures among the adults from each asteroid, because he cannot comprehend the way they go about leading their misunderstood lives. The little prince often enjoys looking at sunsets, and during a conversation with the narrator, he says, "'One day'...'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." The little prince admits himself that he loves the sunsets and is sad when he watches them - he can't explain why he feels this way, but can't help the feeling either - like people's emotions after a bad dream, sometimes they can't explain why they feel sad or angry, because the dream isn't physically happening but has instead, a surreal quality - but it reminds them of something that could actually be real. The strangely depressing feeling is just like the little prince's reaction to sunsets and the overall tone of the story (because sunsets frequent the novel).
On his own asteroid, the little prince left behind a single, beloved rose. He'd cared for her, believing she was the most special, beautiful creature and that there was only one of her kind in the universe - but when he arrived on earth, he discovered rosebushes filled with many roses. And his reaction: "...he was overcome with sadness. His flower had told him that she was the only one of her kind in all the universe. And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden!" Feeling a strong sense of mistrust and betrayal for his much-loved and cherished rose due to this paradoxical discovery, the little prince could not be blamed for the wave of misery that overtook him. The depression he felt while discovering this, caused by feelings of betrayal, is like the pain in learning about a partner's unfaithfulness in a romantic relationship. The little prince and the rose loved each other, even if not in the romantic sense, and when he discovered how the rose had mislead him, he was wounded so deeply because his love was great. This kind of sadness is so prevalent in literature and film because many can relate to it, and is the kind the Little Prince must cope with.
The narrator was also very lonely as a child, because he would draw creative pictures and show them to adults, who would dishearten him with ignorant comments rather than praise for his use of imagination. "The grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." His childhood loneliness progressed throughout his life until adulthood, not only because he was misunderstood, but was given a lasting impression as a young boy. His encounters with failure in the form of inability to please, a frequent social isolation factor for people in many situations (because they become afraid to assert their ideas), became a permanent breach in the worlds between himself and adults.
A sad tone also plays a major role in The Little Prince. Because he and the narrator feel so lonely in the adult world, they are cast about, feeling depressed. The little prince also feels sad and confused when he ventures among the adults from each asteroid, because he cannot comprehend the way they go about leading their misunderstood lives. The little prince often enjoys looking at sunsets, and during a conversation with the narrator, he says, "'One day'...'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." The little prince admits himself that he loves the sunsets and is sad when he watches them - he can't explain why he feels this way, but can't help the feeling either - like people's emotions after a bad dream, sometimes they can't explain why they feel sad or angry, because the dream isn't physically happening but has instead, a surreal quality - but it reminds them of something that could actually be real. The strangely depressing feeling is just like the little prince's reaction to sunsets and the overall tone of the story (because sunsets frequent the novel).
On his own asteroid, the little prince left behind a single, beloved rose. He'd cared for her, believing she was the most special, beautiful creature and that there was only one of her kind in the universe - but when he arrived on earth, he discovered rosebushes filled with many roses. And his reaction: "...he was overcome with sadness. His flower had told him that she was the only one of her kind in all the universe. And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden!" Feeling a strong sense of mistrust and betrayal for his much-loved and cherished rose due to this paradoxical discovery, the little prince could not be blamed for the wave of misery that overtook him. The depression he felt while discovering this, caused by feelings of betrayal, is like the pain in learning about a partner's unfaithfulness in a romantic relationship. The little prince and the rose loved each other, even if not in the romantic sense, and when he discovered how the rose had mislead him, he was wounded so deeply because his love was great. This kind of sadness is so prevalent in literature and film because many can relate to it, and is the kind the Little Prince must cope with.
Analysis: Chapter 13-14
Narrative Stylistics
Chapter
13
Plot:
The Little
Prince is now at the fourth planet which belonged to a businessman. The Little
Prince greeted him with respect but the businessman didn’t mind him nor greeted
him back –except for responding “good morning”.
W hen the
man raised his head towards the prince; he said that during his fifty-four
years of staying in the planet, he had been disturbed only three times. The
first disturbance was twenty-two years ago when some giddy goose fell from
somewhere. The second was eleven years ago when he was disturbed by rheumatism.
And the last disturbance was when the Little Prince came.
The man
counted and added and continued to do so. The Little Prince kept on asking
what’s with the five hundred million objects which the man counted throughout
the hour until he (the businessman) realized that there was no left hope for
silence and peace; so he answered the Little Prince’s question.
The
businessman was actually counting his stars
which make him rich. The businessman assumed that no one owned the stars so he
made them as if they were his. However, the wise and skeptic Little Prince
rebuked all of the businessman’s assumption. He differentiated his flower and
his 3 volcanoes from the stars of the businessman which is –the Little Prince
can touch his belongings: he cleans his 3 volcanoes and waters his flower while
the businessman just writes and counts the stars which are unreachable and
abstract, not concrete. After the business didn’t have to say, the Little
Prince went away and continued his journey.
Textual
medium: novel
Sociolinguistic
code:
originally French; however translated
into English
Characterization
1, actions and events: the
Little Prince and the businessman; both
of them argue
Characterization
2, point of view: 3rd
person
Textual
structure: plot of Chapter 13
Intertextuality:
Chapter 14
Plot:
In this
chapter, the Little Prince is now at the fifth planet which was very strange
–it was the smallest of all planets where only he and the lamplighter could
fit.
When the
Little Prince arrived he met the lamplighter and asked him several questions
about the lamplighter’s occupation. The lamplighter told him that his job is to
put out the light when the day comes and light up again when evening falls. The
lamplighter also emphasized “orders are
orders”, in which he couldn’t do but to follow. The orders for him to
follow had not been changed since.
Given that
the planet was very small, daytime took only one minute until evening comes.
Because of this, the lamplighter had to put out and light up every minute; for
this reason, he had no longer a single second to take a rest.
As the
Little Prince observed the lamplighter, he admired his faithfulness,
responsibility and willingness obeying the orders. The Little Prince told him
to take a rest for some time because all people could be faithful and lazy at
the same time. As he continued his expansion, he told the lamplighter to walk
along at a snail's pace. If the lamplighter wants to rest he will walk –and the
day will last as long as he likes. But the he was not satisfied about what the
Little Prince suggested. The only thing the lamplighter loves was to take a reclining
disposition.
The last
words that the Little Prince uttered to him were “you are unlucky”; but the lamplighter
agreed to it. After which, as he continued his journey, the Little Prince told
himself that the lamplighter would be scorned by other powerful people; but
among them, he was the only the one who did not seem ridiculous. Maybe because
he was thinking of something else nit just himself.
Textual
medium: novel
Sociolinguistic
code:
originally French; however translated
into English
Characterization
1, actions and events: the
Little Prince and the lamplighter; both of them talk about superiority and
inferiority
Characterization
2, point of view: 3rd
person
Textual
structure: plot of Chapter 14
Intertextuality:
Analysis: Chapter 17-20
Style as choice
Style as choice
This
chapter the author starts out with the confession from the narrator: He might
have exaggerated e wee bit when he spoke of the number of people on the earth.
Topside. The narrator talks to us readers directly for a second. He says that although
adults would have you believe that people are as important and imposing a
boabs, in actuality, if all the people in the world were assembled together in
one space, they would not take one more room than a small island. After that,
he returns to his story and finally, the story brings us down to the earth,
where the prince has only just shown up. T prince ends up in the African
desert; where the first creature he encounters is a snake. The style regarding this
chapter is that the prince is the actor which is a process in two inherent
participant’s role in the story or obligatory role in the process. This chapter
talks about confession, which the process or material processes simplicity means
doing; the actor did in the story.
Action and Plot
The story begins when the narrator depicts his childhood, when he drew many creative pictures and showed them to adults but was disheartened by their crude comments. He says he then gave up his potential career of an artist and putting his creativity to use, and instead became a pilot, because it was what the adults believed was sensible. One day, his plane crashes and lands in the middle of the Sahara Desert. There he meets the little prince, who instructs him to draw a sheep. Learning pieces about the strange prince through their conversations, the narrator pilot finds his little friend has come from an asteroid, B-612. The little prince took great care of his asteroid, preventing baobabs - destructive plants - and other unwanted things from destroying his home. One day, a rose appears on his asteroid, and as he cares for it most deeply, thinking she is the most wonderful, special creature ever - he is depressed to assume that she does not love him back. The little prince then leaves his asteroid and rose.
As he lands on many asteroids, each one is occupied by a different adult. First, he meets the king, a man attempting to rule over the universe and the stars. The monarch, however, does not realize the will of his presumed subjects, who do not even know they are being 'ruled' over because of natural instincts. He covers up his lack of understanding for these things by saying, "'Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution. I have the right to require obedience because my orders are reasonable.'" As he continues his journey, he meets more and more seemingly pathetic people - a conceited man who believes the little prince is only an admirer; a tippler who is attempting to drink his problems away; a businessman too busy to stop his work for anything; a lamplighter who does nothing but light his lamp, day and night; and a geographer who cannot complete his work because there is no explorer.
Next, the little prince goes to earth, where he meets a snake, who is very much pleased in the prince's company because of his innocence and honesty in all matters, and says his bite can send them back to their homes (where they truly belong). He then finds a flower; an echo, of which he believes is mocking him; many roses (which depress him, because the rose on his planet had told him she was the only one of her kind in the universe); and a fox, whom he befriends and attempts to tame. He also meets some humans, who seem highly peculiar to him - a railway switchman who is unsatisfied, and knows people are unsatisfied, except for children, who are the only ones that know what they are looking for; and a merchant, who sells pills that will quench thirst and save valuable time.
This is the end of the little prince's told story, the part where he ends up in the desert with the narrator pilot. They finally find a well to quench their thirst, and share an understanding moment when they both know that people no longer see what is most important in life but lead mechanical, empty lives. However, the little prince misses his homeland dreadfully, and finds the snake to bite him and send him back to his asteroid. Before he leaves, he gives the narrator a gift of "laughing stars," something no one else in the universe has. The narrator, with his newfound friend and outlook on life, then proceeds to examine the lovely and sad landscape of the desert and the lone star of the little prince, shining in the night sky.
Analysis: Chapter 21-24
Point of View
Point of View
The point of view in the story is actually told through first-person, in the words of the narrator who gets stranded in the Sahara desert. Although parts of the story tend to sound as if they are being told in an omniscient style, like when the Little Prince ventures from the various asteroids, the telling of these experiences is based on what the narrator has learned while he is with the Little Prince himself. For example, at one part, when the narrator describes his situation: "I realized clearly that something extraordinary was happening. I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child; and yet it seemed to that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from which I could do nothing to restrain him..." That is a line (and not a quote) that would only appear in the narration of a first-person point of view story.
PLOT STRUCTURE
ANALYSIS
The plot of the
book really begins in the second chapter when the narrator meets the Little
Prince. The airplane of the narrator crashes in the desert. As he works on
repairing it, the Prince approaches him, seemingly out of nowhere, and asks him
to draw a picture of sheep. He also asks the narrator to draw a picture of a
muzzle for the sheep. The Little Prince goes on to explain that he is worried
that the sheep on his planet will eat his special flower, which he judges to be
unique and beautiful.
From the second
chapter onward, the book focuses on the Little Prince and his search for
answers about life. Although the story is told chronologically, it is
repeatedly interrupted by flashbacks as the Prince tells of his adventures
after leaving his star. He visits five planets, and on each he learns something
new about life. He shares these visits and lessons with the narrator. Even
though much of the rising action of the novel jumps back and forth between past
and present, the plot of the story is easy to follow, for the focus is always
upon the Little Prince.
Once he lands on
Earth, the Prince meets two important creatures: the snake and fox. The snake
assures him that whenever the Little Prince is ready to return to his star, he
can be of assistance. At the end of the novel, the Prince seeks out the help of
the snake, drawing the end of the novel to the beginning into a tight unity.
After meeting the snake, the Prince encounters the fox, who teaches him a most
important lesson. Just when the Prince has realized that his special flower is
really a common one, and therefore not of great value, the fox explains that a
person must look beyond the surface to see the real value of a thing. If one
looks with one’s heart, not just with one’s eyes, a person can see the hidden
beauty of an object. He convinces the Prince that his flower is, indeed, very
valuable, because it has been loved and tamed by the Little Prince.
By the time the
Little Prince meets the narrator, he has learned the important lessons about
life; but it is in telling the narrator about them that the lessons take on a
real meaning for the Little Prince. After reviewing all that he has learned,
the Prince accepts that he must return to his star in order to take care of his
special rose; his acceptance of responsibility is the climax as the plot.
At the end of
the book, the Little Prince goes to find the snake, which can bite him and
return him to his planet. Before he makes the journey home, the Little Prince
lets the narrator know he is departing. He tells him to look up at the stars
and think of them as laughing. The Little Prince knows that when he looks at
the stars, the narrator will also think about him. In truth, the narrator has
grown very fond of the Prince and hates to see him go. When he is bitten by the
snake and dies, the narrator is grieved to have lost a friend; but he feels
certain that the Little Prince has returned home to his own little heaven. The
end of the novel, therefore, helps to unify the plot, which has come full circle.
The Little Prince has accepted responsibility and returned to his star to care
for the flower, which had originally driven him away.
In the last
chapter, serving as the conclusion and epilogue, the narrator explains how he
looked for the body of the Little Prince on the next morning; however, it was
no where to be found. In this brief falling action, the narrator convinces
himself and the reader that the Prince has returned to his star. The narrator
also explains that he has written the story of the Little Prince six years
after he met him. Even though it has been a long time since the Prince’s
departure, the narrator’s friendship with the mystical man from another planet
has had a profound affect on him; therefore, he finally decides to write the novel
in memory of and as a tribute to the Little Prince.
