One of the many creatures that Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classical Little Prince encounters on the earth is a fox. The creature approaches the Prince with a weird request. “Please tame me,” pleaded the fox. The Prince did not know the meaning of ‘tame’. “It means to establish ties,” explained the fox. Without the ties, the boy would be just another boy for the fox just as the fox would be just another fox for the boy who don’t need each other in any way. “But if you tame me,” continues the fox, “then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.” Little Prince and the Fox When you establish the “ties” the person or thing becomes unique to you, the Prince understands. He remembers the rose which he used to look after on his own planet. He watered it, he made a special glass enclosure for its safety, he killed caterpillars for its sake. The Prince refers to the rose with the personal pronoun ‘she’
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