TRADITIONAL CRITICISM. Le Petit Prince translated as The Little Prince was written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. He writes this book as he writes his character in his identity as an aviator. He then wrote this book during the period of the World War II which he was the one of the Allied Air Forces at that time. It is clear that he gets his inspiration for his writings when he conducted a series of flights on his military service in the Air Force. And to incorporate your work to the character of the story is such a great way to share to the reader your experience what the author experiences through reading a book. 

STYLISTIC CRITICISM. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry states in his introduction before reading the story. You will read his dedication to Leon Werth that he specifically stated when he was a little boy. And he was apologizing not to dedicate this book to children but to those grown-ups who was once a child. The purpose of the book is to remind grown-ups on how being children is such a precious period of the time that somehow it was being forgotten. It was not for entertainment it teaches us how we are being changed by time. And it is brilliantly told us by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in his book. It is an effective tool for me not just because it tells a story but when you see it in a different perspective it was just like a children’s book, the illustrations, the different characters he presented clearly describes each and every grown-up living in his world and if you dig deeper you can see the message of the book and its lessons were meant for the grown-ups who once forgot being a children. On how their mind works, they are curious about the world.

RHETORICAL CRITICISM. Reading the first two pages of the book tells the very important lesson that we must know. He used an example that makes the reader to be hooked on the story by telling a fact that is truly mind-blowing for me. It is important to give the reader a good introduction to start the story because if the reader was hooked, it will grab the reader’s interest to continue reading a book and if rather not, the drive of reading the book won’t last. And the fact that the author set a great start of the story which is an eye-opener for me and maybe to all of us that we shouldn’t hindrance a child in learning things and exploring their curiosity, in the story when the aviator was a child, he tried to drew an art and showed it to the grown-ups. They find the art as a hat but it was not, it is an elephant swallowed by a giant boa. I like how a young mind sees things differently and it is sad to think that grown-ups stop seeing things in a creative way and think it as a nuisance. And the glorious career of the child being an artist stops when the grown-ups told him that he should focus on geography, history, arithmetic and grammar and that led him to become an aviator. We should be aware that being a child is such a crucial voyage to the future of a child’s life. And the story tells us something, something that will make us read all through. 

SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICISM. The book tells different classes of people in this world. Which is very much of a learning. The little prince, the character in the story, tells something about how grown-ups are being very odd. All they care about is the praises, their work and how busy they are. When Little Prince has gone to different neighborhood asteroids and in every asteroid, there is just one person living and ruling their own world. The first asteroid he visited was ruled by a king, where he can order everyone and everything in his world but it seems that he was just a fraud pretending that he could do things and rule over things. It describes how people are greedy of being followed by someone but they just cannot control over things. The second asteroid he visited was inhabited by the conceited man. It depicts how people liked to be praised for what they are doing. They consider being praised and it makes them live their life. The third asteroid was lived by a businessman. He was just so busy to entertain the questions of the Little Prince. He was just working to earn money and make it more and more and they just cannot stop what they are doing. Clearly, it reminds how people behaved now in our society.

METAPHORICAL CRITICISM.  “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what essential is invisible to the eye”. This was just one of the messages that stated in the book in order for us to understand something that we do not see. The quote means, for me, we are just looking to the surface that we see, we must know that it can trick us if we don’t see it from the inside.  Like the example in a simple sense, the hat that was actually the boa constricted the elephant, and also the drawing of a box if you see it your imaginative way the small sheep was living inside the box. From the example given in the book, it makes you think in a deeper perspective and work your creative mind to see things differently.