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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nTo put it into perspective for you, Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry\u2019s novel is inspired by his experiences as a pioneering aviator of the 20th<\/sup> century. On the 30th<\/sup> of December 1935, de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry, along with his navigator, Andr\u00e9 Pr\u00e9vot, crashed in the Sahara Desert whilst attempting to break the record for flying between Saigon and Paris. Both men survived the crash landing. However, they were both lost in the desert for many days, with some grapes, 2 oranges, and a small ration of wine (true story) to survive on. De Saint-Exup\u00e9ry experienced severe hallucinations and close encounters with death in the following days, which have been attributed to his imaginative ideas in the novel, until he was rescued by a Bedouin on the fourth day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n After France fell to Nazi Germany in WW2, de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry went to America to campaign their involvement in the war. Then he went back and flew for the Free-France as a fighter pilot at age 40, even though his commanders forbade him because of the harsh injuries he had picked up on his many journeys. Tragically, on the 31st<\/sup> of July 1944 he was flying a mission to check the positions of the troops of Germany in the Rhone valley when his plane never returned. After a long-lasting investigation, and the discovery of a plane that matched descriptions of his, indicate that he was not shot down. The real reason of his crash is unknown. <\/p>\n\n\n At only age 41, Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry would never get to see the success of his whimsical novel that is the most translated book in history, apart from the bible. His stunning work is a must read and was a masterpiece to watch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The phenomenal acting of the year 8\u2019s, who came from Newington, PLC and MLC brought this play to life and was a testament to the power of adolescents, as Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry himself, believed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The most important things are visible to the eyes.” (Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry, Le Petit Prince<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Sam Eyers Written in 1943, the little prince is a novel, originally written in French, that encapsulates the fleeting sense of wonder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,30,7,4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-stories","category-events","category-featured","category-editorial","category-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-16-at-10.20.59\u202fPM.png\")
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