Journey

The outer journey

In the novella The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, both the little prince and the pilot are on a journey. The pilot wanted to fly with his plane from one place to another. However, his plane crashes in the desert, which is why he has to interrupt his journey: "Something was broken in my engine." (14%). 

For the pilot, it is a matter of survival: "It was a question of life or death for me: I had scarcely enough drinking water to last a week" (10%). The desert is the representation of loneliness and abandonment.

The very next morning after his crash, the pilot meets the little prince. The little prince is also on a journey. He has fled from his home planet, asteroid B 612, because he had problems with a rose. The course of his journey happened by chance. He was in the region of the asteroids 325 to 330 and paid a visit to these six planets and its inhabitants for this reason.

The little prince came to Earth on the recommendation of the geog...