Dec 27, 2009

Wind, Sand and Stars | Characters

Since the work is a series of reflections and various incidents in his flying career, Saint-Exupery does not introduce characters as one would expect them in an ordinary novel. His portraits however emerge with accuracy and realism. The narrator himself becomes the principal character, a devoted pilot, who sees his responsibility as a mail carrier as his most important duty. He is a person who knows and loves people, especially the simple, such as the slaves in Juby, or the humble peasant family in Argentina. He is a person who loves his friends, and suffers when Guillaumet is lost in...