What does the ending of Little Prince mean?

In the end, “The Little Prince” is a story about a suicide. What else is it that the little prince does in the desert, if not self-sacrifice? He dies for a rose, a fragile sentimental flower on his tiny planet that he fell in love with as a child.

Did Antoine de Saint Exupéry kill himself?

July 31, 1944
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry/Date of death

Did the aviator die in The Little Prince in the movie?

The Aviator says that it’s coming close to time for him to join the Little Prince, and indeed he is eventually rushed to the hospital. The movie suggests that he, too, dies, though the Little Girl can hear both he and the Prince laughing when she looks at the stars.

Why did the snake bite The Little Prince?

The snake explains that the prince moves him to pity because he is “so weak on this Earth made of granite” (17.27); but the snake offers to help the prince get to his planet if he someday grows too homesick. And somehow, if the little prince wants to go home to his planet, he can hitch a ride on the snake’s bite.

What does the snake represent in The Little Prince?

In a story about mysteries, the snake is the only absolute. His poisonous bite and biblical allusion indicate that he represents the unavoidable phenomenon of death.

What is the moral of The Little Prince?

The Little Prince teaches that the responsibility demanded by relationships with others leads to a greater understanding and appreciation of one’s responsibilities to the world in general. The story of the prince and his rose is a parable (a story that teaches a lesson) about the nature of real love.

Why did little prince leave his planet?

The little prince loves the rose very much and is happy to satisfy her requests. The rose’s lie makes the prince doubt the sincerity of her love. He grows so unhappy and lonely that he decides to leave his planet.

Why did the snake bite the Little Prince?

What happens to The Little Prince at the end of Chapter 26?

In a short epilogue, the narrator shows the same illustration of the desert landscape he showed in his final chapter, only he leaves out the prince. He calls his final picture the saddest and loveliest landscape in the world.

What happens to the Little Prince at the end?

And back to the ending, it SEEMS like the Little Prince dies from a snake bite while Little Prince says to the narrator that the narrator will find the Little Prince (his youth) among the stars, which might resemble “remembering” and “not forgetting” those thoughts that the Narrator once had as a child.

What happened to the snake in the Little Prince?

Just as the Prince had its flower to see when watching at the stars, he now has the Prince, and that’s essential. He did not die, he went back to his planet, and i believe he went back for his flower. He died. Period. Traditionally the snake is always a deceitful beast in fairytales.

How does the narrator react to the Little Prince’s death?

That night the little prince sneaks off by himself, but the narrator catches up and refuses to abandon him. The prince assures the narrator that he will be fine, that his dead body will just be an empty shell too heavy for the prince to take to the heavens with him.

What do the stars symbolize in the Little Prince?

Since the narrator is a pilot, he looks onto earth for navigation purposes. After the Pilot meets the little Prince, he learns that the prince lives among them. So, the stars also represent friendship. The stars in The Little Prince also symbolize the mystery of the universe, and at the end, the loneliness of the narrator’s life.