Summary of The Little Prince
The Little Prince describes his chores to the speaker, describing the baobabs, the small trees that could tear his planet apart without constant weeding, and he speaks of his beloved flower. The Prince's flower, a vain rose, complained about her conditions, knowing the Little Prince would attend to her every desire. Eventually, the Little Prince leaves his planet because of his inability to confront the flower. He holds on to a flock of birds and visits several planets and speaks with their solitary inhabitants, such as the king, the pompous man, and the drunk. These three characters think or act in a very strange way. First, the king believes he reigns over the entire universe because there is no one else to challenge his authority. The conceited man spends
Each time the man has been interrupted, which totals three times in twenty-two years, he loses count of the stars, forcing him to recount "his" millions of stars. On the fifth planet, the little prince finds a lamplighter that lights and puts out the light of the post every minute. The little prince says towards the end of the book that, "All men have stars. And the tippler attempts to escape the depression and shame of drinking by. his days hoping for admirers to come and fawn over him. The little prince discovers that the people on this large planet are not very different from those who he met on the asteroids. When the little prince arrived on the Earth, he was very surprised not to see any people, only the vast desert. 79-111The little prince wishes for true friendship, which explains his search for other people on different planets. His first friend is the fox, who becomes tamed in order to live freely instead of in hiding. I think that my star is just experiencing life. Pgs 52-111In this section the Little Prince finds a businessman who spends his days counting the millions of stars in the sky.
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