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The next planet that the Little Prince visited is the businessman planet. He met a businessman who always counts every star that he has.
The fourth planet belonged to a businessman. This man was so much occupied that he did not even raise his head at the little princes arrival
The grown-ups are certainly altogether extraordinary, he said simply, talking to himself as he continued on his journey. pp. 52-56
From the illustrations above, it can be concluded that the narrator hates grown-ups so much because of their absurdity. That also become the reasons why
he has such personalities that have been mentioned before.
2. The Deeper Meaning of Grown-ups
The researcher can reveal the deeper meaning of grown-ups by applying the psychological approach. It is stated in Chapter Two by Rohrberger and Woods
1971 that psychological approach focuses on the life as the portrait of human psychology which contains
“thought, behavior, human personality, motivation and the other aspects related to the human psychology
” p. 9. Those aspects are represented as steps and done by analyzing the direct explanation of the narrator,
knowing his motivation and then relates it to the real life. It has been mentioned before in Chapter Two that the theory of motivation by Maslow 1954 is used to
reveal the deeper meaning of grown-ups. Little Prince‟s illustrations about his
experiences also help the researcher get the deeper meaning. The deeper meaning that is revealed in this study is the representations of
things in life that happened when the author wrote this novel. Antoine De Saint- Exupery began writing this novel during the World War II see Appendix 2.
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Much or less, the character in this novel inspired by his life experience. For example, he is the narrator of the novel itself. Also, the Little Prince shares the
philosophy and aspiration that Antoine has. So, it can be concluded that he talks to himself through the characters; the narrator and the Little Prince. He expresses his
thought about his anxiety in life. One of his anxieties is represented in The Little Prince 1943
into the „grown-ups‟ form. There are a lot of illustrations about grown-ups in his novel. By analyzing one of his anxieties which are about grown-
ups, the researcher can reveal the deeper meaning of grown-ups. The findings that are related to the deeper meaning is formulated into two main things that represent
the author‟s real life anxiety.
a. Parents’ Control
The first main thing that underlies the deeper meaning of grown-ups has the relation to the control that parents have over their children. Even though in the
novel there is no explanation about the narrator‟s, the Little Prince‟s, or any other
character‟s parents, grown-ups that are presented in the story can be related to parents control in the real world. Many parents force their children to take
particular skill or job that their children might not want. They force their children to do, act, and think like they want. Many parents do not realize that in parenting
it is not about deciding what the children need but help the children to decide what they need. It happens in the real world when someone is forced to become a
doctor and give up his dream to become a teacher. Here, the narrator also PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
