Summary of "The Little Prince", fairy tales by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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It is very difficult to summarize, "The Little Prince" is the favorite fairy tale of many people of our planet. Since its publication in 1943, it has been translated into 180 languages. Since the work is allegorical, every word is important in it. The author is speaking not so much to children as to the child in each reader.

The fairy tale "The Little Prince" is dedicated to the boy from whom the author's best friend Leon Werth grew up.

Summary. The Little Prince, Chapters 1 to 9

The six-year-old hero was fond of books about animals and was impressed by the drawing of a boa constrictor swallowing a predator whole. Inspired, he drew his drawing number one, which the adults took for a picture of a hat, although it was a boa constrictor that swallowed an entire elephant. I had to depict a boa constrictor with an elephant inside in a section especially for slow-witted adults. But the adults still did not like it, they advised me to pay more attention to geography and other lessons. The hero stopped believing in himself and got tired of explaining himself toadults. Instead of an artist, he became a pilot, and geography came in handy.

Meeting, as it seemed to him, intelligent adults, he tested them with the help of drawing number one, but they all again mistook the boa constrictor for a hat, which completely disappointed the hero.

6 years ago, he had to make an emergency landing in the Sahara desert, where there was not a soul in a circumference of thousands of miles. But in the morning a little man woke him up and asked him to draw a lamb. In drawing number one, he instantly identified a boa constrictor, but rejected the rams, unexpectedly delighted with a box with holes, which allegedly contains the lamb he needed.

The pilot learns that the Little Prince came to Earth from his tiny asteroid B-612, where he left three volcanoes and his favorite rose, with which he quarreled the day before.

Summary. The Little Prince, Chapters 10 to 17

His journey began with neighboring asteroids. At the first he met a king without subjects, at the second with an ambitious man without admirers, at the third with a man drinking from shame caused by his own drunkenness. On the fourth planet, a business man was mindlessly counting the stars. On the fifth lived a lamplighter, lighting and extinguishing his lantern every minute, because day and night on his planet began to replace each other faster. This seemed to the Little Prince the most logical and not so selfish, unlike the actions of the other adults he met. A geographer living on the sixth planet was waiting for travelers who, he thought,bring him information about the world. He did not even know anything about his own planet, but he advised to visit Earth. So the boy ended up in the Sahara Desert.

Summary. The Little Prince, Chapters 11 to 27

First, the little wanderer met a snake who promised to help him return to his planet as soon as he wanted to. Then he saw a garden full of exactly the same roses, although his favorite flower convinced him that there was only one such in the world.

He met on the way the Fox, who refused to play until the Little Prince made him tame. The fox explained that after the taming ritual they would become special to each other, then the boy guessed that the rose must have tamed him. The fox confirmed this, since the prince is ready to give his whole soul to her, and added that with the heart one can see what one cannot see with the eyes. And that now he is forever responsible for those who are tamed by him.

But soon it's time for the prince to return home. In the end, bursting like a bell, he said that now, looking at the stars, the pilot will hear their laughter, because the Little Prince lives and laughs on one of them.

A small yellow snake flashed at the boy's feet. Slowly and silently, he began to fall on the sand…

The next morning, the pilot did not find the body of the boy. He repaired the engine and returned. Six years passed, but the hero could not console himself. Of course, he believed that the baby had returned home, but, looking at the sky, he heard not only the silvery laughter of the stars, but also their crying, depending on whether he was worried about the Little Prince or rejoiced. Leon Werthappealed to everyone who meets the boy to inform and soothe his sadness.

Saint Exupery, whose "The Little Prince" was disassembled into quotes by readers all over the world, put into his creation a deep meaning that does not fit into the framework of a summary. I would like to believe that the one who ran through his eyes will want to read the whole fairy tale in its entirety.