Synopsis of a Book

Synopsis of a Book

The little Prince (Le petit prince), by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)

Synopsis: The little Prince is the history what do you tell the storyteller a very strange boy who appears in the desert of the Sahara, when his plane suffers an engine failure and forces him to a forced landing. As he tries to repair his vehicle, the boy explains that he comes from asteroid B-612, where he has three little ones. volcanoes and a garden, in which a very beautiful rose is born. And he asks her to draw him a lamb, to eat the weeds and baobab seeds that continually threaten to sprout and destroy his little planet. The aviator, who as a child liked to draw, tries to please him but cannot draw a lamb convince him, so in the end he draws a box with holes and explains that the lamb is within. Only then did the little prince seem satisfied, until the aviator warned him that the lamb could also eat the flower from him. Then the little prince decided to tell him the reasons that led him to undertake that long journey through the cosmos. He visited planets with kings, lamplighters and geographers, all dedicated exclusively to his work, without anyone understanding the concerns of the little prince. He eventually ended up on Earth, where he met a fox who wanted to be tamed and with whom he learned how the rose in his

asteroid She had tamed him, and that's why he felt so responsible for her. He also met a yellow snake who told him that he had the power to return people to where he came from. Once his story was finished, the little prince and the aviator wandered through the desert until they ran out of water, and when it was one year of the arrival of the little prince on Earth, the boy warned the aviator that he would return to his home and, as he walked away from him, he let the serpent bite. The next day, the aviator tried to find his body but could not find it anywhere.

What is a synopsis?

The term synopsis It is made up of two Greek voices: syn ("Together") and opsis ("Vision"), which is translated as "overview" or "general vision", that is, a look devoid of details and secondary elements, focused only on the main thing. A synopsis is a text that summarizes the content of a story, usually an artwork, film, or play, and the It is approached in a very general way, focusing on its main characters and the broader aspects of the plot.

The objective of a synopsis is to give the reader a panoramic view of what he or she will find in the work. The synopsis is a condensed fragment that does not replace the direct reading of the work, but can serve as an appetizer or guide the reader, so that he knows what he will find in it. For this reason, synopses are used in the publishing, commercial and advertising world, as a way to quickly and briefly expose the content of a book to its potential audience.

It is important, however, to distinguish the synopsis from the review. The latter offers the reader an opinion, reading or critical evaluation of the work, to guide their criteria or invite them to address it directly. Reviews do not usually reveal core plot information, which can ruin the play experience (what we commonly call spoilers).

How to make a synopsis of a book?

To carry out the synopsis of a book, we can be guided by the following steps:

References:

• "Synopsis" in Wikipedia.
• "Synopsis" in the Language Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy.
• "Synopsis" in the Online Castilian Etymological Dictionary.

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