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The dreamy personality is also supported by narrator‟s imagination. His imagination is showed when he could tell the readers about the details that the
Little Prince told him. He can illustrate vividly even he has not been to the place or situation that the Little Prince told him. He can imagine something that never
happened to himself. It is showed by the author in The Little Prince novel. “At
that moment I caught a gleam of light in the impenetrable mystery of his presence; and I demanded, abruptly: Do you come from another planet
? p. 18” and “I had thus learned a second fact of great importance: this was that the planet the
Little Prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house ” p. 20.
b. Lonesome
The narrator is a lonesome man. He became that kind of person because he cannot really find someone who has the same thought as him. He was an
imaginative person who loved to draw. He abandoned art for the grown-up profession of pilot, and he lives a lonely life until he encounters the Little Prince
Antoine, 1943.
So, because of that, he could not really make a friend. He could not share his imagination with others because they are growing up to someone that most
grown-ups want. Although he finally found his job to become a pilot, it was never
his passion.
Thus I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago.
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mechanic nor any passengers, I set myself to attempt the difficult repairs all alone. It was a question of life or death for me: I had scarcely enough
drinking water to last a week. p. 12
His lonesome is showed in the first few chapters in the novel. He cannot suit to his environment. He surrounded with grown-ups that do not understand
him and ask him to talk about numbers and figures. It made him very lonely, he has no friend and relations.
c. Childlike
The narrator is a grown-up, but his perspective of the world is more like a child‟s than an adult‟s. The narrator is somehow different from the rest of grown-
ups around him. He still has that childlike perspective when most of the grown- ups
are growing up with an adult‟s perspective. Here is the evidence from The Little Prince 1943.
Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One, which I have
always kept. I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, whoever it was, he, or she, would always say:
That is a hat. 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 golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up
would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man. p. 11
However, his childlike perspective is somehow what grown-ups need. The adults‟ perspective usually sees things just from the surface. In the other hand,
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childlike perspective reveals the hidden meaning in everything that can be seen in this world.
B. The Meanings of Grown-ups
In surface meaning, a grown-up is a term that is used to describe someone who is already mature in term of physical and psychological aspects. In The Little
Prince novel 1943, the narrator experienced the process of being a grown-up person. Being a grown-up is not pleasant according to the narrator in The Little
Prince. According to the narrator, grown-ups just care about numbers and figures. They never really pursue the real purpose of life, they just barely touch the
surface. The Little Prince Le Petit Prince in the original copy, a novel, by Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry was published in 1943. It teaches us the meaning of friendships, love, and the most important thing, the purpose of life. Even today, this great story
of love, loneliness, and the truth of life is a magic for readers and entertains both children and adults. The Little Prince novel is known as a very great novel that
teaches the readers about the truth of life. It is because the novel serves a great plot. The story is full of funny illustrations. The diction that is used in this novel is
also simple which makes the message delivery goes well to the readers. In this study, the researcher focuses on how the truth of life is presented in
this novel. Especially, from the narrator ‟s eyes. The narrator and the Little Prince
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