The Little Prince Rhetorical Analysis

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The rhetorical act I chose to analyze is the extremely popular children’s book, The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Originally written in French in 1943, this book has become one of the most translated books in the world, with translations in over 300 languages and dialects. It was written when Saint-Exupéry escaped to North America after to the Fall of France during the Second World War. In this story, the narrator is a pilot who has crash-landed in a desert (similar to Saint-Exupéry’s actual crash in the Sahara desert in 1935), and while trying to fix his plane, he is interrupted by a little boy who asks him to draw a sheep. Although confused at first, he does as asked and this begins a series of conversations between himself

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