Lonesome The Narrator’s Characteristic

26 strangeness also can be seen from the illustrations that the Little Prince explained about the six planets that he visited before he visited planet Earth. Four out of six planets represent types of grown-ups that exist in real world. At the end of his visit to the four planets, the Little Prince always finds out that grown-ups are strange. It can be found in these following planets that the Little Prince visited. The first planet is inhabited by a king. The king‟s task is to command everything. The first of them was inhabited by a king. Clad in royal purple and ermine, he was seated upon a throne which was at the same time both simple and majestic. The grown-ups are very strange, the little prince said to himself, as he continued on his journey. pp. 42- 47 The second planet is inhabited by a conceited individual. This man really loves when someone praises him. He always raises his hat when he got compliment. The second planet was inhabited by a conceited man. Ah Ah I am about to receive a visit from an admirer he exclaimed from afar, when he first saw the little prince coming. The grown-ups are certainly very odd, he said to himself, as he continued on his journey. pp. 48-49 The Little Prince meets a drunkard in the next planet. The Little Prince get confused when he got there. The drunkard did nothing but get drunk. The reason why the drunkard did that was to forget that he is ashamed of being drunk. What a strange. The next planet was inhabited by a tippler. This was a very short visit, but it plunged the little prince into deep dejection. The grown-ups are certainly very, very odd, he said to himself, as he continued on his journey. pp. 50-51 27 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.