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    The Little Prince tells the story of a pilot who crashes in the Sahara desert and meets a young boy called the Little Prince. The Prince is from a small asteroid and tells the pilot about his travels between asteroids where he meets eccentric adults. He eventually lands on Earth, befriends a fox who teaches him about love, and realizes he must return to his rose. In the end, the snake bites the Prince, who returns to his asteroid, while the pilot finds comfort in the stars.

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    The Little Prince tells the story of a pilot who crashes in the Sahara desert and meets a young boy called the Little Prince. The Prince is from a small asteroid and tells the pilot about his travels between asteroids where he meets eccentric adults. He eventually lands on Earth, befriends a fox who teaches him about love, and realizes he must return to his rose. In the end, the snake bites the Prince, who returns to his asteroid, while the pilot finds comfort in the stars.

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    The Little Prince tells the story of a pilot who crashes in the Sahara desert and meets a young boy called the Little Prince. The Prince is from a small asteroid and tells the pilot about his travels between asteroids where he meets eccentric adults. He eventually lands on Earth, befriends a fox who teaches him about love, and realizes he must return to his rose. In the end, the snake bites the Prince, who returns to his asteroid, while the pilot finds comfort in the stars.

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    The Little Prince tells the story of a pilot who crashes in the Sahara desert and meets a young boy called the Little Prince. The Prince is from a small asteroid and tells the pilot about his travels between asteroids where he meets eccentric adults. He eventually lands on Earth, befriends a fox who teaches him about love, and realizes he must return to his rose. In the end, the snake bites the Prince, who returns to his asteroid, while the pilot finds comfort in the stars.

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    The story is about the Little Prince who travels to different planets and encounters different characters. He meets a fox who teaches him about the importance of love and responsibility. In the end, he returns to his home planet.

    The main characters are The Little Prince, The Narrator, The Rose, The Fox, and The Snake.

    The Little Prince visits different planets and encounters different characters. He realizes the importance of his rose and decides to return home. In the end, the snake bites him and he returns to his planet.

    Full Title: The Little Prince 

    (French: Le Petit Prince)


    Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    Type of work: Children’s story, Novella
    Genre: Fable, Allegory, Fantasy
    Language: French
    Point of view: The narrator gives a first-person
    account, although he spends large portions of the
    story recounting the little prince’s own story of
    his travels.
    CHARACTERS
    The Little Prince - Frequently perplexed by the behavior of
    grown-ups, the prince symbolizes the hope, love,
    innocence, and insight of childhood that lie dormant in
    all of us. 

    The Narrator - A lonely pilot who, while stranded in the


    desert, befriends the little prince.

    The Rose  -  A coquettish flower who has trouble expressing


    her love for the little prince and consequently drives him
    away.
    CHARACTERS
    The Fox –   Although the fox asks the little prince to tame him,
    the fox is in some ways the more knowledgeable of the two
    characters, and he helps steer the prince toward what is
    important in life.
    The Snake - The first character the prince meets on Earth, who
    ultimately sends the prince back to the heavens by biting him.

    The King, the Vain Man, the Drunkard, the Businessman, the
    Lamplighter, and the Geographer – the first 6 persons the
    little prince encounters before landing to Earth.
    THE LITTLE PRINCE
    (EXPOSITION)
    • The narrator explains the drawings of boa constrictors that he made
    as a young boy. None of the adults who viewed the pictures were
    able to see the meaning of the drawings. As a result, at an early
    age, the narrator discovered that most people do not look beneath
    the surface to see the real message, beauty, or importance of a
    thing.

    • He gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter.


    • So then he chose another profession, and learned to pilot
    airplanes. He had flown a little over all parts of the world.
    THE LITTLE PRINCE
    (EXPOSITION)
    • 6 years ago, the narrator, an airplane pilot, crashed in the Sahara desert. The
    crash badly damages his airplane and leaves the narrator with very little food
    or water. As he is worrying over his unpleasant situation, he is approached by
    the Little Prince, a very serious little blond boy who asks the narrator to draw
    him a sheep.
    • The narrator obliges, and the two become friends. The pilot learns that the
    Little Prince comes from a small planet that the Little Prince calls Asteroid B-
    612.
    • The Little Prince took great care of this planet, preventing any bad seeds from
    growing and making sure it was never overrun by baobab trees.
    • One day, a mysterious rose sprouted on the planet
    and the little prince fell in love with it. But when he
    caught the rose in a lie one day, he decided that he
    could not trust her anymore.
    THE LITTLE PRINCE
    (RISING ACTION)
    • He grew lonely and decided to leave. Despite a last-minute
    reconciliation with the rose, the prince set out to explore
    other planets and cure his loneliness.
    • While journeying, the narrator tells us, the Little Prince passes
    by neighboring asteroids and encounters for the first time the
    strange, narrow-minded world of grown-ups.
    •  On the first six planets the Little Prince visits, he meets a king,
    a vain man, a drunkard, a businessman, a lamplighter, and a
    geographer, all of whom live alone and are overly consumed
    by their chosen occupations. The little prince does not think
    much of the adults he visits, and he does not learn anything
    useful.
    THE LITTLE PRINCE
    (RISING ACTION)
    • However, he learns from the geographer that flowers do not last
    forever, and he begins to miss the rose he has left behind.
    • At the geographer’s suggestion, the Little Prince visits Earth, but
    he lands in the middle of the desert and cannot find any
    humans. 
    • Instead, he meets a snake who speaks in riddles and hints darkly
    that its lethal poison can send the Little Prince back to the
    heavens if he so wishes.
    •  The Little Prince ignores the offer and continues his explorations.
    Eventually, the Little Prince finds a rose garden, which surprises
    and depresses him—his rose had told him that she was the only
    one of her kind.
    THE LITTLE PRINCE
    (CLIMAX)
    • The Prince befriends a fox, who teaches him that the
    important things in life are visible only to the heart,
    that his time away from the rose makes the rose
    more special to him, and that love makes a person
    responsible for the beings that one loves. 
    • The Little Prince realizes that, even though there are
    many roses, his love for his rose makes her unique
    and that he is therefore responsible for her. 
    THE LITTLE PRINCE
    (FALLING ACTION)
    • It is now the narrator’s eighth day in the desert, and at the
    Prince’s suggestion, they set off to find a well. 
    • The water feeds their hearts as much as their bodies, and the two
    share a moment of bliss as they agree that too many people do
    not see what is truly important in life. 
    • The Little Prince’s mind, however, is fixed on returning to his rose,
    and he begins making plans with the snake to head back to his
    planet. 
    • The narrator is able to fix his plane on the day before the one-
    year anniversary of the prince’s arrival on Earth, and he walks
    sadly with his friend out to the place the Prince landed.
    • The snake bites the Prince, who falls noiselessly to the sand .
    THE LITTLE PRINCE (RESOLUTION)

    • The narrator takes comfort when he cannot find the Prince’s


    body the next day and is confident that the Prince has
    returned to his asteroid. 
    • The narrator is also comforted by the stars, in which he now
    hears the tinkling of his friend’s laughter.
    • Often, however, he grows sad and wonders if the sheep he
    drew has eaten the Prince’s rose.
    • The narrator concludes by showing his readers a drawing of
    the desert landscape and by asking us to stop for a while
    under the stars if we are ever in the area and to let the
    narrator know immediately if the little prince has returned.
    MAJOR CONFLICT

    The childlike
    perspectives of the
    Prince and, to
    some extent, those
    of the narrator are
    in conflict with the
    stifling beliefs of
    the adult world.
    THEMES
    The dangers of narrow-mindedness, enlightenment
    through exploration, relationships teach responsibility

    MOTIFS SYMBOLS
    Secrecy, the narrator’s The stars, the desert,
    drawings, taming, the trains, water
    serious matters

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