THE LITTLE PRINCE. A. de Saint-Exupéry CHAPTER 1
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Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called
True Stories from Nature
, about the
primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of
swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.
In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their
prey
whole, without
chewing it. After that they are not
able to move, and they sleep
through the six months that they need for digestion."
I
pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I
succeeded in making my first
drawing. My Drawing Number One. It
looked something
like this:
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I
showed my
masterpiece to the
grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing
frightened
them.
But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a
hat?"
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the
inside of a boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it
clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two
looked like this:
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(...) Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. (...).
ACTIVITY
POLYSEMIC IMAGES.
Images with several meanings
Draw a symbol with two different meanings at least and describe them.
For example:
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GLOSSARY
primeval forest bosque virgen
swallow tragar
prey presa
through durante
be able ser capaz
ponder reflexionar
deeply profundamente
SUCCEED tener éxito
drawing dibujo
look like parecer
show enseñar, mostrar
grown-ups mayores, personas grandes
frightened asustaba
inside dentro
tiresome
agotador
LOOK UP THIS WORDS IN THE DICTIONARY:
whole bread
chewing gum
masterpiece
hat
clear water
at least