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昨日・一昨日と寝不足になりながら準備したかいがあって、なんとか乗りきりました。これで、とりあえず一安心です。
(記録のために、原稿を一番したに、付けておきます。・・・・文法とか細かい事は言わないでネ!)
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「献立帳」 辻嘉一 著
春夏秋冬 ほんのり、ぬなわ
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星の王子さま
Now I will tell you about “The Little Prince” by Saint-Exupery.
This is one of the most famous books written in French.
And, we are now learning French. So I will tell about that.
I have four books.
This is Japanese one. I have read this book several times
This is English one. I bought it when I went to a college, I don’t remember that I finished it or not yet.
This is French one. I hope I will read it some day.
This is Chinese one. I bought it in Taiwan last March. I think I never read it.
“The Little Prince” has many scenes or tales.
For example,the picture of boa that swallowed an elephant, A tree of
baobao, Strange people live in the strange planets, The little prince and
the fox.. And so on.
Now I focus on the tale of the little prince and his rose
If you read it, you can easily know that tale of the rose is love story, and rose is a girlfriend of the little prince.
The tale of the rose is like that.
One day, a rose seed came from somewhere to his planet.
He lived in small planet.
Then the rose bloomed.
She was a very beautiful flower, but she was not kind.
He fell in love and took care of her.
But she bothered him.
At last, he decided to leave his planet and said good-bye to her.
The scene of leaving is beautiful.
At that moment, she first showed her kindness but she was still proud.
At last she said to him “Don’t linger like this. You have decided to go
away. Now go!” because she didn’t want him to see her crying.
After that, the little prince traveled several planets and at last, reached the earth.
That tale is a topical love story.
But I think there is another mean in the tale of the rose, and the rose means also his friends.
The little prince was written in New York not in France.
Those days, the world was in World War II, and Saint-Exupery escaped
from France to USA, because the Nazis Germany occupied France.
Many his friends still lived in France.
One of his best friends was Leon Werth.
In the preface of “The Little Prince”, Saint-Exupery dedicated the book to him.
He was a Jew, and remained in France and maybe hided himself from Nazis.
The Key word is a “thorn.” Thorn is a TOGE in Japanese.
The rose used to have thorns, and his rose had four thorns.
One day the little prince asked the man who saw him in Sahara.
“The thorns – what use are that?”
The man said.
“The thorns are of no use at all. “
This meaning is that if the rose has thorns, a wild animal can easily eat her.
Then the little prince got angry, and said
“They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.”
The little prince or Saint-Exupery thought the thorns are useful.
I’m not sure what the thorns were meant.
But Leon Werth and other friends had the thorns and battled against the Nazis with their thorns.
I think Saint-Exupery thought the thorns were weak but he believed the thorns were still useful.
After the little prince reached on the earth, he saw a fox and he maid friends with the fox.
The fox said his secret to the little prince.
The secret was that “What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
This is a most famous phrase in “The little prince.”
And next the fox said “You are responsible for your rose.”
The end of the story, the little prince returned his planet.
He said that “I am responsible for her. And she is so weak! She is so
naïve! She has four thorns, of no use at all, to protect herself
against all the world.”
Saint-Exupery wrote “The Little Prince” in 1943, and soon he returned in a battlefield.
Because he responsible for his friends.
After one year, on July 31 in 1944, he went to battle with his plane and he never returned.