Synopsis of a Book

Synopsis of a Book

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

Synopsis: The little Prince is the story told to the narrator by a very strange boy who appears in the Sahara desert, when his plane suffers an engine failure and forces him into a forced landing. While trying to repair his vehicle, the boy explains that he comes from asteroid B-612, where he has three small 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 germinate and destroy his little planet. The aviator, who liked to draw as a child, tries to please him but cannot draw a lamb that convinces him, so in the end he draws a box with holes and explains that the lamb is inside. Only then did the little prince seem satisfied, until the aviator warned him that the lamb could also eat his flower. So 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 any of them understanding the little prince’s concerns. He eventually ended up on Earth, where he met a fox who wanted to be tamed and with whom he learned how the rose on his asteroid had tamed him, and that is why he felt so responsible for her. He also met a yellow snake who told him that he had the power to bring people back 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 after the little prince’s arrival on Earth, the boy warned the aviator that he would return home and, while he was away from him, he let the snake bite him. The next day, the aviator tried to find his body but couldn’t find it anywhere.

What is a synopsis?

The term synopsis is composed of two Greek words: 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 artistic work, film or play, and addresses it in a very general way, focusing on its main characters and the broader aspects of the plot.

The objective of a synopsis is to provide the reader with an overview of what he 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 orientation for the reader, so that he knows what he is going to find in it. For this reason, synopses are used in the publishing, commercial and advertising world, as a way of quickly and briefly exposing 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 his criteria or invite him to address it directly. Reviews do not usually reveal central plot information that can ruin the experience of the work (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:

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