Once again the final scene from "The Little Prince." ~Goodbye isn't just sad~

Do you remember the ending of The Little Prince? The prince is bitten on the ankle by a golden snake and falls silently on the sand. The depiction of a very quiet, sudden death in a childish mind was engraved in memory as a kind of trauma. There must be many people who were sad, lonely, unable to complete it, and were stunned for a while after closing the last page.

But what if that wasn't just a tragic ending? Now that I'm an adult, when I face that last scene again, I realize that it contains not only sadness, but a deep and warm message.

Roughly speaking

The final scene of The Little Prince is remembered as a sad farewell that is hard to understand as a child.
However, this parting can be interpreted as a story of "transformation" that abandons the burden of the body and allows the soul to return.
The prince taught us firsthand the importance of "being as a memory" beyond his physical absence. Goodbye isn't just sad.

"It's too heavy, so I can't take this body": A story of the body and soul

The prince tells the aviator this time, ahead of his farewell. "I can't bring my body with me. It's too heavy." And he describes his body as "like a slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred slurred s

As a child, these words sounded nothing but comforting. However, now that I have more experience in life, this word has a deeper meaning. We know that the body is not eternal through illness, old age and inevitable physical parting. The prince's words teach us that the body is nothing more than a "entertainment" of the soul, and what is truly important is the soul within it and the love that has nurtured. His farewell may not have been an end to life, but rather a sacred process of stripping away his heavy shell and returning to his planet with only the things that are truly important.

"When night comes, look at the starry sky": Being a memory

The last gift the Little Prince left for the aviator. It was a "laughing starry sky."

"When night comes, look at the sky. I'm so small, I can't tell you where it is. That's better. My star is, to you, one of the many stars. Then you'll fall in love with every star...every star, everyone will become your friend." "When you look at the sky at night, I live on one of those stars and laugh at one of them, so to you it seems like all the stars are laughing. You alone will have a star that laughs!"

I think this is the true essence of parting Saint-Exupéry wanted to portray. Even if your physical existence disappears, it does not mean that your relationship with that person will disappear. Rather, its existence spreads throughout the starry sky and continues to live in a new way.

When we lose someone we love, we are saddened. But eventually, when you hear a song that someone liked, or when you visit a place you went with, you may suddenly remember a person's smile and feel warm in your heart. By transforming the form of existence into "memories," the person will live forever in our hearts. The prince showed with his own self that absent could turn into a new form of being.

What the golden snake symbolizes: is it "death" or "rebirth"?

That golden snake holds the key to the story. He says, "I will return anything that I touch to the earth," and takes on the role of returning the Little Prince to the planet. At first glance, it is a symbol of death.

However, in many myths, snakes are also symbols of "rebirth" and "eternity" because they repeatedly molt. The Little Prince's final moments are not only a tragic end of falling into the desert, but also a return to his hometown star and a reunion with his beloved rose. It can be said to be the end of a journey and the beginning of a new journey. This ending is a deeply philosophical question that will make readers imagine what lies beyond "death."

Conclusion: The last thing the prince taught me was how to leave my feelings of "love"

The Little Prince is a story that teaches you how to create a "connection" with something important. And on that last page, he will tell you how to "break up" that precious thing.

That's never going to be forgotten. Even if you are physically separated, keep in mind how their existence has enriched your world and keep listening to it as the laughter of the stars. To hold your feelings of love in your heart with sadness and keep it within you.

That sad final scene was not only a story of loss, but also the most beautiful story of the permanence of love.

Why don't you look up at that starry sky again?

If you're leaving this book at the back of your bookshelf due to the sadness of the ending, you should definitely open it again. The last page is a slightly stronger mind, different from before.

After you finish reading, look up at the night sky and you'll surely hear it too. Somewhere around the world, the Little Prince was laughing at that star voice.