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THE REFLECTIONS OF SAINT-EXUPERY’S LIFE IN THE LITTLE PRINCE: A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By DORCE JULIANCE MANDALA Student Number: 064214034 ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2010 THE REFLECTIONS OF SAINT-EXUPERY’S LIFE IN THE LITTLE PRINCE: A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By DORCE JULIANCE MANDALA Student Number: 064214034 ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2010 i Dream, for it is free. Live it, for it feels good. v This undergraduate thesis is dedicated to Me, as a respect to myself. My Miraculous God. My Parents. My brothers and sisters, by blood and by love. My Friends. vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My huge thank would be for Jesus Christ, the only one that I can believe in, in any circumstance even when there is nothing I can hold on to. He has been such a faithful love and never ending guidance. I also want to thank Mom and Dad, for the unwavering supports. Without them, I can never be who I am. They have always been a home I can always come back to. My gratitude also goes to Leandre Cote, a French-Canadian friend of mine who is so much in love with The Little Prince that he inspired me to take the novel as the topic when I was in the early time of searching the idea for my pre- thesis lecture. I shall never forget my advisor Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka, M. Hum and my co advisor Dewi Widyastuti, S.Pd., M.Hum. for their supports and great efforts during my thesis writing and consultation. I am so thankful for having them for they have been very helpful. I also want to express my gratitude for the English Letters Department and all the lecturers for the 4 years of study. The lectures and the experiences that I got has enriched and broadened my knowledge that can help me to face the real life. My special gratitude would be for my academic class advisor, Anna Fitriati, S.Pd., M.Hum. for has been so kind. I thank her for the understanding in dealing with a bothering student like me. I will never forget to thank my great classmates who have shared many joys and laughter during our 4 years of being together, I would like to thank vii Gabe, Keke, and Esther for being my reasons to be in class B, and to Yuniar, Nana, San San, Lucy, Vina, Elok, Sella, Arum, Marcel, and all the class A mates who have accepted me in their class. The class has been my second home and our sisterhood has made a great futsal team ever. The last but not least, I want to give a bunch of thanks to my friends who have been more like brothers and sisters for me. My gratitude goes to all my cell group brothers and sisters and all my sisters in Center Charity. I thank them for the brotherhood, the sisterhood, and the empowering words of God. Dorce Juliance Mandala viii TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE .......................................................................................................... i APPROVAL PAGE ............................................................................................... ii ACCEPTANCE PAGE..........................................................................................iii LEMBAR PERNYATAAN .................................................................................. iv MOTTO PAGE .......................................................................................................v DEDICATION PAGE............................................................................................ vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.................................................................................. vii TABLE OF CONTENTS....................................................................................... ix ABSTRACT............................................................................................................ xi ABSTRAK ............................................................................................................. xii CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................1 A. Background of the Study...............................................................................1 B. Problem Formulations...................................................................................4 C. Objectives of the Study.................................................................................4 D. Definition of Terms.......................................................................................4 CHAPTER II: THEORETICAL REVIEW .........................................................6 A. Review of Related Studies ............................................................................6 B. Review of Related Theories.........................................................................10 1. Theory of Character and Characterization .............................................10 2. The Relation between the Author and His Work...................................14 C. Biography of Antoine de Saint-Exupery......................................................14 D. Theoretical Framework ................................................................................18 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY.....................................................................19 A. Object of the Study.......................................................................................19 B. Approach of the Study .................................................................................20 C. Method of the Study.....................................................................................21 CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS ..................................................................................22 A. The Characterizations of the Aviator, the Little Prince, the Rose, and the Fox................................................................................................................22 1. The Aviator ...........................................................................................22 2. The Little Prince....................................................................................26 ix 3. The Rose................................................................................................33 4. The Fox .................................................................................................35 B. The Reflections of Saint-Exupery’s Life Depicted by the Characters .........37 1. The Aviator as the Grown-Up Side of Saint-Exupery ...........................38 2. The Little Prince as the Child Side of Saint-Exupery ............................46 3. The Rose as Saint-Exupery’s Wife, Consuelo .......................................57 4. The Fox as Saint-Exupery’s Best Friend, Leon Werth ..........................61 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION.............................................................................65 BIBLIOGRAPHY ..................................................................................................68 Appendix 1: Summary of The Little Prince.............................................................70 Appendix 2: The List of Works by Antoine de Saint-Exupery................................72 Appendix 3: Letters and Pictures .............................................................................73 x ABSTRACT DORCE JULIANCE MANDALA (2010). The Reflections of Saint-Exupery’s Life in The Little Prince: A Biographical Study. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Sanata Dharma University. This analysis discusses Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince, his masterpiece published in 1943, to find out how much the novel is related to the real life of the author. This topic is very interesting in some ways. First, although the main character of the little prince is a little boy, he is likely to reflect the author himself. As for the other characters, they also represent people in the author’s life. Second, some events occurred in the novel are factual events in the author’s life. In order to analyze the topic, two problems are proposed. The first one is to find the characteristics of some characters in the novel and the second one is to relate the characterizations and the characteristics to the life of Saint-Exupery. This analysis is a library research. For this purpose the data used are taken from the primary source and secondary sources. The primary source is the novel itself, The Little Prince, whereas the secondary sources are various sources related to the novel, such as articles, books, and also from the internet. From this analysis, the writer finds that the aviator is the representation of Saint-Exupery himself. Meanwhile, the little prince is the other self of him. He used the character of a little prince to remind him of his childhood memories and also to preserve the pure imaginative mind owned by children. The other characters that represent the author’s life are the rose whom widely believed as his wife, Consuelo, and the fox that is likely to represent one of the best friends of the author, Leon Werth, to whom the novel dedicated to. There are also several events in the story that reflect the life of the author. They are the plane crashed in the desert which is a personal experience of the author who was a pilot; the complex love between the little prince and the rose reflects the