The little prince

Because adults do not understand the thoughts, dreams, and language of children. They interpret their relationship with things with a different logic that shocks the worlds of childhood and the magic of its secrets. These children have their own reactions that are rooted in their later formation and feed their imagination with different and sarcastic images of those who try to disable their language and their ability to fly. This is what happened with the six-year-old Exupery boy who drew a picture of a boa constrictor swallowing an elephant, inspired by his readings of a book about the primeval jungle. The adults around him saw nothing in that picture but the shape of a hat. With their understanding, they disappointed him, which forced him to give up drawing. The child’s later frustrated decision to choose the profession of piloting aircraft is one of the defiant reactions of a world in which adults are good at playing bridge, golf, politics, and ties. But they do not understand what a young child draws. It is a decision to fly away from misunderstanding.