The content of “The Little Prince” is difficult to convey, because either you need to write one line, since the scenery for all the dialogues of the characters in the story is simple, or you need to rewrite the entire book, if not word for word, then a few sentences for each chapter. It’s better to quote in whole paragraphs. In a nutshell, these are Exupery's memories of the Little Prince and the several days they spent together, lost in the Sahara Desert, until the death (or liberation) of the Prince.
Star Boy met typical characters during his journey and talked with them and the author (the book is written in the first person). Love for one's only life partner is the main theme. "The Little Prince" also addresses the most troubling questions of human existence. If you list them in a list, it will seem boring - so much has already been written. Fear of death, confrontation between fathers and sons, materialism, the world of childhood - who will be surprised by another fairy tale about all this? What is the amazing secret of the popularity of the story "The Little Prince"? A review of it can be briefly expressed as follows: it is among the ten most published works of art of the twentieth century.
Genre
As Exupery himself admits at the beginning of the book, he finds it difficult to determine the genre of “The Little Prince,” calling the book a fairy tale. There is a generally accepted classification for literary works, which is focused on plot, volume and content. "The Little Prince", according to her, is a story. In a narrower sense, it is an allegorical story-fairy tale with illustrations by the author himself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the Little Prince
The story is largely autobiographical. But not in the literal sense, although Exupery’s life included long flights, plane crashes, disastrous desert and thirst. This is the book because the Little Prince is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, only in childhood. Nowhere is this stated directly.
But throughout the story, Exupery mourns his childhood dreams. Easily, without drama, even with some humor, he retells comical stories from his interactions with older relatives in childhood. He would like to remain a child, like his new friend, but he succumbed and grew into a down-to-earth and pragmatic pilot. This is such an oxymoron. A pilot who is forced to return to a sinful, war-torn earth from the sky, and his soul still yearns for the stars. After all, all adults were children at first, but few of them remember this.
Rose
Consuelo, the author's wife, is the prototype of the Capricious Rose. The main character of the story is simple-minded, if not narrow-minded, beautiful and very inconsistent, probably like all women. If you choose one word to describe her character - manipulator. The prince saw through all her tricks and cunning, but cared about his beauty.
Reviews of Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, of course, cannot be so one-sided. One thing that speaks of her generosity is that, despite often living apart and the constant fear of the death of her desperately brave pilot husband, she remained with him. His character was difficult. Not in the sense of anger and aggression, but precisely in excessive openness, which numerous mistresses took advantage of. Despite all this, the marriage did not break up until death separated them. After many years, their correspondence was published, from which it is clearly clear that Consuelo was Exupery’s muse, the haven where his soul took refuge. And although the temperament of Consuelo herself, whom her friends called the “Salvadoran volcano,” did not always fit into the image of a quiet home, the love between them was all-forgiving.
Book publication
It seems that the book was easy for Exupery. But the translator of the first edition into English, Lewis Galantier, recalled that he rewrote each sheet of the manuscript many times. He also drew wonderful gouache pictures for the story. Exupery wrote the book at a time of acute political confrontation throughout the world - Nazi Germany began the Second World War. This tragedy resonated vividly in the soul and heart of the patriot. He said that he would defend France and could not stay away from the battlefield. Despite all the attempts of friends and superiors to protect the already popular writer from hardships and danger, Exupery achieved enrollment in a combat squadron.
In 1943, the book was published in the United States in English, where the writer was then living in New York, forced to leave German-occupied France. And immediately after this, the story was published in French - the author’s native language. Only three years later, “The Little Prince” was published in Exupery’s homeland; the author had been dead for two years. And Exupery, and Tolkien, and Clive Lewis created amazing fantasy tales. All of them worked in the first half of the terrible twentieth century for Europe. But they never learned how much their works influenced generations after their lives.
Drunkard
The miracle created by Exupery in The Little Prince is the dialogue between the heroes and the Prince. The conversation with the Drunkard on the next planet on the boy’s journey, very short compared to others, is a clear example of this. There are only four questions and answers, but this is the best presentation of the theory of the vicious circle of guilt, a famous psychological phenomenon that eminent psychologists have spent many pages explaining and justifying, but they should have included a quote from The Little Prince in their works.
This is the best therapy for addicted people. The language of the story is simple and clear, but mercilessly reveals the full depth of the problem, causes pain and heals. This is the magic of the book “The Little Prince” - a deep disclosure of the most hidden but pressing problems of all humanity through the example of one conversation with one individual. It is not customary to talk about these difficulties of the human race publicly or with children.
Blind leading the blind
And these dialogues are conducted by a child and different adults. The little prince and the heroes are blind people who also want to teach others about life, and they are pure children. The child is merciless in his questions, hits where it hurts, sees the point. At the same time, he only asks the right questions. Most of the opposing characters remain blind and continue to lecture everyone around them, not seeing their own weakness.
But the reader of the story begins to see the light and recognizes himself in one or another character. The author of "The Little Prince" also begins his path to the light.
Lamplighter
The lamplighter is the only representative of the adult world who, although grumpy, is a positive character. He is true to his word, even if he no longer needs to fulfill it. But still, after meeting him, there remains an aftertaste of doubt and hope. It seems that it is not so wise to blindly follow a promise that has lost its meaning. Although the Lamplighter’s sacrifice is respectable. But examples of mothers come to mind who burn for their children, but suffocate them with love, never ceasing to complain about fatigue, doing nothing to find an opportunity to rest. And yet, every time a lantern star lights up, there is hope that someone will look at it. The prince especially singled him out among all his acquaintances from different planets, appreciating the beauty of his work.
Fox
The most famous quote from The Little Prince belongs to this character. “You are forever responsible for those you tamed!” - he said to the Prince. The Fox is the source of the main lesson the Prince learned. They met after the bitter disappointment of the main character - the beautiful Rose turned out to be one of five thousand like her, an unremarkable flower with a bad character. The distressed child lay down on the grass and cried. After meeting with the Fox, the Prince realized that it was important for him to return to his small asteroid to his beloved Rose. This is his responsibility to her, and to fulfill his duty, he must die.
The second important truth that the Fox revealed to his new friend: only the heart is vigilant, but with your eyes you cannot see the main thing. It was after a conversation with the Fox that the Prince repented of his attitude towards Rose and realized that it was in vain to take her words to heart. You had to love her for who she is, without being offended by simple-minded antics.
Geographer and others
It is worth being grateful to the Geographer at least for telling the Prince about the Earth. As for the rest, he is another chicane who believed that his work was fundamental and eternal. They are all alike - these stupid, important, over-aged people. Businessman, Ambitionist, King, Geographer - these heroes of "The Little Prince" with a significant air did useless things and could not stop and think. “But no, I’m a serious person, I don’t have time!” One word - adults.
A planet with a good reputation
This is the review given by the Geographer in “The Little Prince” about planet Earth. Exupery is much less enthusiastic about her and is ironic. Two billion adults who are bloated with their own importance are lighter than emptiness compared to their big planet.
Yellow snake
The snake is the first living creature that the Little Prince met on Earth. She is death itself. It is so poisonous that after its bite life lasts half a minute. An amazing collective image. Speaks in riddles, like a sphinx. The snake is the image of the ancient tempter from the Bible, who sowed death and is still doing this. An evil, harmful creature who took pity on the Prince. But only for the time being, having predicted that they would meet again, and the pure Boy from the Star would look for her of his own free will.
The Prince learns, the reader learns
After each meeting of the Little Prince, the reader comprehends a new truth about himself. The prince also went traveling to study. Only two facts are directly stated in the book - he became unhappy due to the nagging of Capricious Rose and decided to travel with migratory birds. There is an impression that he was tired of his beauty and ran away. But, although she thought so and apologized before his departure for his bad behavior, the reason for his departure was the search for knowledge.
What did he learn at the end of the journey? He learned to love his beautiful, but the only prickly flower in the whole world with a difficult character. This is the most important idea of "The Little Prince" - to love the only one who was sent to you by fate, despite everything, even the bad in him. So that love makes him perfect.
Fathers and Sons
Another main idea of the Little Prince is the confrontation between the worlds of adults and children. The first is represented mainly by its worst members - from the drunkard to the greedy. He is openly condemned by Exupery, whose childhood memories are sad. The older he got, the more he hid his inner world, learning to be “like everyone else.” He constantly emphasizes that being an adult and being a hypocrite are the same thing. The adult world constantly surprised the Prince throughout the story. This is a subtle and significant moment - the Prince was amazed and did not always understand, and once he became angry to tears, but he never condemned anyone. And it really helps to let yourself inside your heart and take lessons from it. Both children and adults learn better and happily change for the better only in an atmosphere of trust and acceptance.
Christian parallels
To broaden your horizons and perceive new ideas that, due to a different worldview, do not come to mind naturally, it is interesting to read the review of “The Little Prince” by Christians.
The book "The Little Prince" is similar to the Bible in its allegorical nature. She also teaches gently and unobtrusively, through parables. As daring as it may sound, at times the Prince resembles Christ. But this is not surprising. When the Lord was asked to name the most important person in the Heavenly Kingdom, he placed a two-year-old child in front of a crowd of arguing men. The prince, as a collective image, absorbed all the childish spontaneity, openness, trust, and defenselessness.
Exupery's last conversation with the Little Prince on the topic of death as liberation from the shackles of the body is sad and bright. A light, weightless soul flies to a better world (to the place desired by the Prince - to his Rose). The prince teaches an over-aged pilot lost in the desert that there is no need to be afraid of death.
It is worth taking a short time to read this wonderful work of fiction, but you should be prepared to meet the reflection of your soul. Because the best review of “The Little Prince” is the mirror of the heart, because the most important thing can only be seen by it.
The history of the creation of the fairy tale-parable “The Little Prince” will be interesting to know for many readers. In what year “The Little Prince” was written you will find out this year.
"The Little Prince" history of creation
The motifs of the fairy tale-parable “The Little Prince” began to take shape with the beginning of World War II. At this time, Exupery often painted the same thing: a little boy with and without wings, who looks in amazement at the ground from behind the clouds. This boy gave the writer no rest.
"The Little Prince" year of writing — 1942
Although "The Little Prince" was written in 1942 in New York, but the story was published in 1943. This was Exupery's last work.
The fairy tale became convincing evidence of man's complete poetic, moral and philosophical self-knowledge. The Little Prince is Saint-Exupery's favorite hero, the exponent of his most secret thoughts and beliefs.
First French edition: "Editions Gallimard", 1946
It was only published in Russian translation in 1958.
The drawings in the book were made by the author himself and are no less famous than the book itself. It is important that these are not illustrations, but an organic part of the work as a whole: the author himself and the characters of the fairy tale constantly refer to the drawings and even argue about them. “After all, all adults were children at first, only few of them remember this” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from the dedication to the book. During the meeting with the author, the Little Prince is already familiar with the drawing “Elephant in a Boa Constrictor.”
Speaking about such a deep and truly complex work as “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, you need to know about the very personality of its author. This would be the same difficult person with a completely unique outlook on life.
Surprisingly, without having children himself, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry managed to preserve the child within himself, and not at all as deeply as many adults. Therefore, he saw the world through the eyes of a growing person, he understood and accepted the child’s worldview. This is the success of his work “The Little Prince”.
So we come close to this amazing, living and such a magical creation of a French writer, whose main occupation was a military pilot.
Reading The Little Prince, it’s hard to believe that it was written by a man of such a harsh profession: it is such a deep, tender and extraordinary work. But his heroes are especially interesting and unusual. We will talk about them.
Human heroes: one layer of storytelling
The Little Prince is a fairy tale, and it becomes so partly because the main characters in it are not only human. Here the reader will meet a wise tamed fox, an insidious snake, and even a capricious rose. But still there are more human characters.
The first and, of course, the main thing is, of course, the Little Prince himself. And here the first riddle awaits us: since this is the son of rulers, it means that there must be both a king and a queen in the fairy tale. After all, without them there can be no prince. However, nowhere in the story is there any mention of the Little Prince's parents.
We see his portrait: indeed, there is a crown and a cloak, but then what does he rule over? Or what do his mom and dad rule? There is no answer to this question, and no answer is expected. We perceive the world through the prism of the worldview of a small child, and at this age the status of parents is not important to anyone. All children take each other for granted. And even the Little Prince for them is just a child, and no one is interested in his origins. This is a statement of fact.
However, this baby is already responsible and wise even more than any adult. He takes care of his planet, every day, without forgetting this for a moment, he takes care of the capricious rose, saving it from all possible adversity. He loves his friends and is sincerely attached to them. But, like any child, the Little Prince is curious and imprudent. Having quarreled with a rose and become bored, he, without thinking twice, leaves his home planet and goes on a long journey to see how others live? This is so childish! Well, who didn’t want to run away from home at least once?
Adult child
True, this child is also an adult at the same time. He has no parents, and he builds his own life. There is nowhere to wait for help, and it is not expected. Therefore, the Little Prince is wise beyond his years, although he allows himself simple childish pranks.
So, having been torn away from his tiny home planet, this child sets off on a journey to other worlds. Until he ends up on our mortal Earth, he will meet other planets on his way, and there will be no less amazing characters on them. Each of them is the personification of some passions. Everyone is busy with one thing and cannot tear themselves away from their work, even though, in fact, no one needs it. This already represents the structure of our adult world: many people do what no one needs, wasting their lives on nothing.
So is the king, who alone rules on a planet where there are no other people. All his passion is power, completely empty and unnecessary. So is the lamplighter, who every day turns on and off the only lamp on the planet where there are no other people. On the one hand, it’s like a responsibility, but on the other, it’s a waste of one’s own life. So is the drunkard who drinks all day long, and the accountant who cannot see beyond his numbers.
Disappointed in his neighbors, the little Prince flies further and finally ends up on our planet, where he meets the author-narrator. And surprisingly, for some reason these two people, big and small, find a common language and understand each other. Maybe this happens because the image of the Little Prince is the author’s longing for a bygone childhood, this is the same little child who does not live very deeply in the soul of Anutan de Saint-Exupery.
However, the image is not autobiographical. There are echoes of little Tonio in it, but the mere fact that the author tells on his own behalf does not allow us to identify the little prince with himself. These are different people. And a child is just a projection, a kind of collective image, echoes of childhood memories, but not Antoine de Saint-Exupéry himself.
There are other heroes in the book, but they are not people. However, they play a very important role in revealing both the whole meaning of the work and its details.
Animal Heroes: Very Significant Characters to the Story
The Little Prince is a child, and first of all he remains one. Therefore, for him, as for any child, animals are of great importance. Everyone knows how little children love their kittens and puppies, and the main character of this amazing fairy tale needs a four-legged friend. And he manages to tame the Fox.
The fox is a very important character, he helps to reveal the very essence of the philosophy of the entire fairy tale, helps to look into the very depths of the story. And it guides the plot.
So, gradually the Fox is tamed, and, in the end, becomes dependent on the boy. And it is to him that the immortal words belong: “We are responsible for those we have tamed.” This is the first lesson of love, devotion, trust. And the Little Prince gratefully accepts it and assimilates it with his whole being. And it is then that the longing for the rose appears: after all, she is there alone, among the baobabs that are tearing apart the planet, scared and so defenseless. And tamed. And he, the little Prince, is responsible for those he tamed. So it's time to go home.
And here the Snake appears. This image is easy to read and is recognizable from the biblical canons. The tempting serpent that was there continues to perform the same function in almost all literary works. And then, as soon as the boy’s desire to return home appears, this same tempter appears, offering his help. In the Bible it was an apple, and in the work of a French writer it was a bite.
The snake says that he can send the child home, that she has a magic remedy and, of course, it is poison. In the biblical story, after communicating with a snake, people ended up on Earth, but in Exupery’s fairy tale, everything happens the other way around - the boy disappears. Where, there is not a word about this in the work, but the snake promises to return him to his home planet. And since there is no body, the reader can only hope that this is what happens. Or does the Little Prince go to where Adam came from - to heaven?
The tamed fox and the insidious snake are important, plot-shaping heroes of this work. Their importance in the development of the narrative cannot be overestimated.
Capricious rose: beauty that has thorns
If the Fox is the personification of devotion and trust, the Snake is deceit and temptation, then the Rose is love and inconsistency. The prototype of this hero was the author’s wife Consuelo, a very capricious, hot-tempered and, naturally, capricious person. However loving. And the Little Prince says about her that his Rose is capricious, sometimes unbearable, but all this is protection, just like thorns. But in fact, she has a very soft and kind heart.
Longing for the flower, the boy agrees to the snake's offer. For the sake of love, people are capable of much. And even die, only to be reborn again somewhere beyond the stars, somewhere on a completely different planet, tiny, but in an embrace with a beautiful rose.
Snakes have always had a special gift of instantly transporting people to a completely different world. And, who knows, maybe everything was as that snake promised the Little Prince, and he really ended up on his planet with his flower.
The fairy tale does not provide an answer. But since this is a fairy tale, we can all hope for a happy ending!
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"
Genre: literary fairy tale
The main characters of the story "The Little Prince" and their characteristics
- Author, pilot, romantic, a person who retained childlike spontaneity and the ability to be amazed at miracles.
- A little prince. The Boy Who Traveled the Planets
- Rose. The only one in the world, because the Little Prince tamed her
- Fox. Another friend of the Little Prince, who was sad alone and really wanted to be tamed.
- Snake. Powerful, capable of sending the Little Prince home.
- Boa constrictor and hat
- Boy in the desert
- Lamb in a box
- Asteroid B-612
- Baobabs
- 43 sunsets
- Mushroom Man
- The little prince hits the road
- King
- Ambitious
- Drunkard
- Accountant
- Lamplighter
- Geographer
- Earth
- Flower
- garden of flowers
- Taming the Fox
- Switchman
- Pill Dealer
- Searching for a well
- Conversation with a snake
- Parting
- Muzzle and strap
- The author suffers an accident in Africa and meets the Little Prince
- The little prince talks about his planet and the rose
- The little prince talks about the planets he visited
- The Little Prince talks about the Earth, about the Snake and the Fox, about the rose garden
- The author is looking for a well and understands the music of water
- The author says goodbye to the Little Prince and he returns to his planet.
We are responsible for those we have tamed.
What does the story "The Little Prince" teach?
Put your planet in order, or rather, make sure that the planet is clean. Look around not just with your eyes, but with your heart, notice the beauty in nature, hear music and feel the joy of life. Teaches you to be a friend and be faithful to your friends. Teaches to love. Teaches responsibility. Teaches miracles.
Review of the story "The Little Prince"
This is a very beautiful and slightly sad story about the Little Prince, who left the only flower in the world that he loved because of a stupid quarrel. And then I spent a long time looking for my way back. I really liked the Little Prince's attitude towards life. And I felt sorry for the author, the fox, the rose and the Little Prince himself, because they found what they were looking for, but at the same time they began to be sad.
Proverbs for the story "The Little Prince"
Well, where we do not.
When you walk, don’t think that you have left your shadow somewhere.
A handful of damp earth will overcome our separation.
Summary, brief retelling of the story "The Little Prince" chapter by chapter
Chapter 1.
The author is amazed by the description of how a boa constrictor swallowed the victim whole and depicts how a boa constrictor swallowed an elephant. The design looks like a hat and adults are not afraid of it at all. And they even advise the boy not to draw anymore.
Then the author chooses the profession of a pilot. But he often shows people his drawing of a boa constrictor to see if he can talk to them.
Chapter 2.
The author suffers an accident in sugar and repairs the plane's engine.
In the morning he hears a request to draw a lamb and sees that a wonderful boy is standing next to him.
The author draws a lamb, but it turns out that it is too frail. The author adds horns to the lamb, but then the lamb seems too old. The author draws a new lamb and it turns out to be old. Then the author simply draws a box with a lamb in it, and the boy is happy.
This is how the author meets the Little Prince.
Chapter 3.
The little prince does not tell anything about himself, but only asks the author. He was amused by the plane and decided that he couldn’t fly far on it. The author understands that the Little Prince arrived from another planet. The author promises to draw a peg and a rope so that the lamb does not go far, but the Little Prince refuses, saying that he has very little space there.
Chapter 4.
The author understands that the Little Prince flew from a very small planet, for example from an asteroid. The author believes that the asteroid is B-612, which was discovered sometime in the early 20th century by a Turkish astronomer. But adults are strange people and they did not believe the Turkish astronomer while he was dressed in Turkish. Only when the astronomer dressed in a European fashionable suit did people believe in his discovery.
Chapter 5.
The little prince wonders if the lamb eats the bushes and is delighted. After all, he needs the lamb to eat the baobab bushes.
The author objects that baobabs are huge trees, but the Little Prince notices that when they are young, they are very small.
It turns out that the Little Prince's planet was contaminated with baobab seeds and now he has to weed the baobabs every morning so that they do not grow.
After all, the Little Prince knew one lazy person who did not weed out three bushes; the baobabs grew and tore the planet apart.
Chapter 6.
One day the Little Prince suggested going to watch the sunset, but the author said that he would have to wait a little.
Then the Little Prince laughed and said that he forgot that he was not at home. After all, there you could walk a few steps and again look at the sunset. So he once saw the sunset 43 times, his planet was so small.
Chapter 7.
The little prince asks if lambs eat flowers, even those with thorns, and the author says that they do.
The little prince cannot understand why flowers grow thorns. And the author brushes him off, saying that he is busy with serious business - he is turning the bolt. The little prince tells the author that he thinks like an adult.
He says that on one planet he saw a man who was very serious and thought only about numbers. But in fact it was not a person, but a mushroom. And it is very important to understand why lambs eat roses, but roses still try to grow thorns. After all, if a lamb eats a flower that you love, it’s the same as if the universe went out.
Chapter 8.
The little prince told how one day a rose sprouted on his planet. It was an amazing plant that delighted the little prince.
But the rose was very capricious, she was afraid of drafts and demanded that the tigers come. The little prince did not understand that the rose had illuminated his life and was angry at her words. But you just have to admire the flowers and under no circumstances listen to what they say.
Chapter 9
The little prince decided to fly away with the migratory birds and, as a farewell, he cleared all three volcanoes and weeded out the baobab sprouts.
Rose asked the Little Prince for forgiveness and said that she loved him. She asked the Little Prince to make him happy.
Chapter 10.
On the first asteroid that the Little Prince visited there lived a Monarch. He sat on a throne and his mantle covered the entire planet. The little prince had nowhere to sit and he yawned.
The king declared that the whole world belonged to him and everyone obeyed his orders. At the same time, he was a reasonable king and understood that if the people were ordered to throw themselves into the sea, a revolution would happen, and if the general was ordered to turn into a seagull and the general did not do this, then the king himself would be to blame.
But the Little Prince got bored and refused to become a judge on the planet. He went further and the king hastily appointed him ambassador.
Chapter 11.
On the next planet, the Little Prince meets the Ambitious Man, who demands that the Little Prince admire him and clap his hands. The Little Prince claps, and the Ambitious Man takes off his hat and bows, and so on many times.
The little prince gets tired of this and leaves.
Chapter 12.
On the next planet there lived a Drunkard and it was filled with empty bottles. The drunkard drank because he was ashamed. And he was ashamed because he drank.
The little prince quickly left this planet.
Chapter 13.
On the next planet there lived a business man and he was counting all the time. He had already counted five hundred million and the Little Prince asked why.
The business man did not like to be disturbed. This only happened three times in his life. When the cockchafer arrived, when he had an attack of rheumatism and when the Little Prince appeared.
But the Little Prince wanted an answer and the business man replied that he counted the stars because he owned them. But the Little Prince asked what he was doing with the stars and the man replied that he could write on a piece of paper the number of stars he owns and put it in the bank.
The little prince was surprised, because everything he owned had a benefit from such ownership, but what benefit did the stars have from the fact that this man believed that he owned them?
Chapter 14.
On the next planet there lived a lamplighter, who lit the lantern every minute and extinguished it every minute, because that was his agreement, and his planet rotated faster and faster.
The little prince advised him to follow the sun and then it would be day all the time, but the Lamplighter said that most of all he wanted to sleep.
The little man felt sorry for him, because this man was true to his word and thought not only about himself.
Chapter 15.
On the next planet there lived a geographer who did not know whether there was an ocean or mountains on his planet. After all, he was a geographer, not a traveler. He would like to find the traveler and began to ask the Little Prince about his planet. But the Little Prince was upset when he learned that the geographer calls flowers ephemeral and does not note them in books, because they can disappear very quickly.
For the first time, the Little Prince regretted leaving his rose.
The geographer advises the Little Prince to visit Earth.
Chapter 16.
The seventh planet on the Little Prince's journey was Earth. This is a very large planet and it was necessary to keep a whole army of lamplighters on it, who took turns lighting and extinguishing the lanterns. Only the lamplighters of the North and South Pole had it easy - they lit their lamps only once a year.
Chapter 17.
The little prince found himself in Africa and saw the Snake. He greeted her and told her about his planet and the flower he left. The snake said that she was very powerful and could return everything to the earth.
She invited the Little Prince, when he regrets leaving the planet, to come to her and she will help him.
Chapter 18.
The little prince crossed the desert and met only one inconspicuous flower. He asked him where to find people, but the flower did not know. He replied that people are carried by the wind because they have no roots and it is very inconvenient.
Chapter 19.
The little prince climbed the mountain and saw only stones and mountains around him. Just in case, he said hello, but an echo answered him. The little prince decided that the Earth was a strange planet.
Chapter 20.
The little prince came to the garden in which roses grew. He said hello and asked who they were. The roses replied that they were roses. The little prince felt sad, because he believed that his flower was the only one in the whole world. He lay down on the grass and cried.
Chapter 21.
And then the Fox appeared. He told the Little Prince that he was not tamed, but wanted to be tamed. The little prince did not know what tamed meant. But the Fox explained that this is a bond when someone becomes your only friend, your loved one.
The fox asked the Little Prince to tame him and the Little Prince tame him.
But the time has come to say goodbye and the Little Prince said that the Fox will be hurt and he will be unhappy. But the Fox said no.
The little prince went to the roses and said that they were not tamed. That they are empty and not worth dying for, and his rose is the only one, because he watered and took care of it.
The fox told the little prince that only the heart is vigilant, and that we are responsible for those we have tamed.
Chapter 22.
The little prince met the Switchman, who was sorting people. He missed the trains and the Little Prince asked where people were going and what they were looking for. But the Switchman said that it’s good where we are not and people are not looking for anything. Only children look out the windows.
The little prince said that only children know what they are looking for, and if their dear doll is taken away from them, they cry.
Chapter 23.
The little prince met a seller of thirst pills. The merchant claimed that such pills save a lot of time. But the Little Prince decided that if he had so much free time, he would simply go to the spring.
Chapter 24.
The author finished his last sip of water and was afraid to die of thirst. Because of this, he almost did not listen to the Little Prince. But the Little Prince suggested looking for a well and they went through the desert.
The little prince said that the desert is beautiful because springs are hidden in it.
Then he fell asleep and the author carried him for a long time, amazed at how fragile he was.
At dawn he found a well.
Chapter 25.
The author takes out a bucket of water and they drink. The Little Prince says that people themselves do not know what they are looking for and therefore cannot find happiness. But you need to look with your heart, and not with your eyes, and then happiness will be nearby, in every drop of water.
The little prince said that he had been on Earth for a year already and he needed to go to the place where he fell.
The author became restless. He remembered the fox and those who were tamed.
Chapter 26.
The next day, the author hears the Little Prince talking to the snake and promising to come in the evening. How he asks if the snake has strong venom.
The author got scared and began to persuade the Little Prince. But he replied that on that day his planet would be just above the place where he was and he would be able to return to it. But his body is too heavy and he won’t be able to lift it.
The little prince asks the author not to go with him, because it will seem to him that he is dying and that he is in pain. But the author goes, says goodbye to the Little Prince, and the Little Prince gives him joy, the joy of looking at the stars and seeing something special, knowing that at this time he is laughing back at him on his planet.
Then the snake bites the Little Prince and he falls.
Chapter 27.
Six years have passed. That time the author did not find the body of the Little Prince and therefore knows that he returned to his planet.
But he’s worried because he didn’t draw a strap for the lamb’s muzzle. And now the author is worried that one day the lamb will eat the rose.
Drawings and illustrations for the story "The Little Prince"
Saint-Exupéry and his Little Prince, a book about which I recently read, is an interesting and unusual fairy tale that tells and introduces us to a boy, a prince, who, having gone on a journey, ends up on different planets, the Prince ended up on the advice of an astrologer and on Earth . There he met a fox, a snake and a pilot.
The work of Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince and His Tale is easy to read, written in an easy and simple speech form, but at the same time the tale is filled with philosophical content.
De Saint Exupery The Little Prince main characters
If we talk about the work of Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince and its main characters, then we should immediately remember the little prince himself. This boy lives on his own small planet, the size of a house. The boy takes care of his planet every day, just as he takes care of the rose, which was hot-tempered and wayward. The little prince is gentle by nature, timid, he believes in what is said, so he suffers greatly because of the windy rose. And so, when the boy quarreled with a beautiful flower, he decided to leave him. The prince got ready and went on a journey.
While traveling, he visits different planets, where he meets adults. These adults: the king, the accountant, the drunkard. They all consider themselves significant, but in fact, all of them are possessed by such vices as greed, vanity, drunkenness, and rage. Also in the fairy tale, the prince meets the pilot. They found a common language with the pilot. When you read the work, you understand that the Little Prince is the soul of the author, who remained a small child. By the way, on Earth the prince met thousands of beautiful roses and he was almost disappointed in his only one, but here the Fox came, who discovered the truth, which sounded like this: you need to look with your heart, but not with your eyes, and be responsible for those you have tamed .
The fox is another hero of Saint-Exupery's work, who is the personification of friendship, an image of love and the desire to be needed.
In the image of Rose, readers are presented with such a feeling as love, and in the relationship between Rose and the Prince, we see the difference in the perception of love between a man and a woman.
The insidious snake is the character who helped the little prince return to the stars. She volunteered to bite the boy, and he, because of his great love for Rose, even agreed to die, just to be back on his little planet, but next to the rose.
Characteristics of the characters based on the work of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “The Little Prince”
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