A d exupery the little prince summary. "The Little Prince" main characters

Date of creation: 1943.

Genre: story-tale.

Subject: friendship and fidelity; duty and responsibility; meaning of life.

Idea: genuine values in life: care, fidelity, friendship, responsibility, love.

Issues. Misunderstanding between children and adults.

Main heroes: Pilot, Little Prince.

Plot. A six-year-old boy learned from a book that a boa constrictor swallows prey. The result was a drawing of a snake swallowing an elephant. To all adults, this image seemed like a hat. An attempt to draw a boa constrictor from the inside also did not meet with understanding. Adults advised me to do serious things instead of this nonsense. school subjects. So the future of the artist was closed for the boy. Over time, he mastered the serious profession of a pilot, but continued to demonstrate his mysterious drawing more reasonable, in his opinion, adults. The answer was traditional: it's a hat. Was it possible to have intimate conversations with them? So the pilot was lonely until he met the Little Prince.

The meeting took place in the Sahara desert. The aircraft engine failed, the malfunction had to be urgently eliminated, otherwise the pilot would die: the water supply could be stretched for only a week. The pilot woke up at dawn because someone was talking in a thin childish voice. It was golden a little boy somehow ended up in the desert. He needed a painted lamb, and the kid asked the pilot about it. He fulfilled his request, because this child saw a boa constrictor in the "hat". This is how the pilot met the Little Prince, who arrived from a very small planet, more precisely, from an asteroid.

The planet was not the largest more at home. The Little Prince looked after her very diligently. He had to clean the volcanoes: one of them went out, and two were active. In addition, the Little Prince uprooted sprouted baobabs. It was very important for the planet. The Little Prince lived a sad and lonely life. His only amusement was watching the sunset. But one day his planet seemed to light up with a wonderful flower - beautiful rose with spikes. And the life of the Little Prince has changed. He fell in love with this proud beauty, but it seemed to him that she was cruel, captious and arrogant. And she was just naive and vulnerable. The little prince was too young to understand this. He did not yet understand what happiness this rose brought into his life. And the little prince decided to embark on a journey. Finally, he cleaned up volcanoes, rid the planet of sprouted baobabs and said goodbye to his rose, which only at parting told the Little Prince about her love.

In his journey, he first visited nearby asteroids. One was inhabited by a king eager to rule. Another asteroid was the abode of an ambitious man, a drunkard settled on the third, and a businessman settled on the fourth. The inhabitant of the fifth asteroid, unlike adults from other asteroids, liked the Little Prince. It was a lamplighter. He lit the lanterns with the onset of evening and extinguished them at the dawn, although his planet was so small that day gave way to night in a minute. But the lamplighter was faithful to the agreement and tirelessly fulfilled his duty.

The sixth asteroid was occupied by the geographer, he was interested in the stories of travelers. The little prince began to talk about his rose, but the geographer said that he was not interested in flowers, because they did not live long. And the Little Prince suddenly realized that his beloved rose would soon be gone, and she was left alone, helpless and defenseless. However, the resentment was still with him, and the Little Prince continued on his way, but now he was not left thinking about the abandoned flower.

And here he is on earth. And how difficult it is here! This planet is full of kings, geographers, businessmen, drunkards and ambitious people. They all make up billions of adults. The only friends of the Little Prince were the snake, the fox and the pilot. If the prince yearns for his asteroid, then the snake will help him out, as she promised. And the fox was very smart. The fox knew about friendship: if you tamed someone, then you are now his friend, but now you are responsible for the tamed. And he also knew that not everything is accessible to the eyes, only the heart distinguishes the main thing. And the Little Prince decided to return to his asteroid, to the rose for which he was responsible. It was necessary to start from the same place in the desert where he fell.

Here the kid met the pilot, who made him a drawing of a lamb hidden in a box, in addition, he also depicted a muzzle for him. The little prince rejoiced, and then the snake returned him to the stars. He reassured the pilot that from the outside it only looks like death, there is no need to be sad. It's better to let him look at nights starry sky and remembers him. The laughter of the Little Prince will respond to the pilot with the laughter of the stars - a lot of bells.

The pilot managed to repair the plane, he returned to his comrades. Six years passed, and he stopped grieving. He also liked to look at the stars at night. But he was always worried that he didn't complete the drawing with a muzzle strap. No matter how the lamb ate the flower ... Then the pilot seemed to be crying bells. If the rose is dead, then everything will change. Can adults understand this?

Review of the product. The story is amazing. It strikes adults more than children, makes you remember the attitude of childhood and the real values of life.

Leon Versh,
when he was little
(After all, all adults were children at first,
only few of them remember it).

When the narrator was six years old, he saw a picture in the book where a boa constrictor was swallowing a predatory beast. The boy thought about it and drew something very reminiscent of a hat. It was drawing number 1.

— Aren't you scared? the boy asked.

Is the hat scary? they asked him in response.

But it was not a hat at all, but a boa constrictor that had swallowed an elephant.

Drawing No. 2 depicted a boa constrictor from the inside.

“Adults never understand anything themselves, and for children it is very tiring to endlessly explain and interpret everything to them.”

Once the narrator had to make an emergency landing in the Sahara. The pilot was alone: no passengers, no mechanic. He decided to fix the plane himself, because otherwise he would have died.

"There was no habitation for thousands of miles around." However, at dawn, the narrator "was awakened by someone's thin voice."

"He said:

- Please draw me a lamb.

Draw me a lamb...

I jumped up as if thunder had struck me. I rubbed my eyes."

Instead of a description, the author draws us a portrait of an extraordinary serious baby. It didn't look like he was lost at all. Making excuses with the inability to draw, the pilot draws a "boa constrictor outside." And the boy immediately guesses that it is the boa constrictor that swallowed the elephant! Only at the baby's house everything is very small. He does not need a too dangerous boa constrictor and too big an elephant. The baby doesn't like the rams that the pilot draws either: one is too frail, the other is too big, the third is too old. Then, having lost patience, the pilot simply draws a box with holes.

And the boy sees in the box just such a lamb as it should:

- Check this out! He fell asleep...

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The boy looks at the plane

“So you fell out of the sky too?”

In a conversation, it turns out that the baby’s planet itself is very small: “If you go straight and straight, you won’t go far ...” For adults who love numbers, it is reported that the planet is called “asteroid B-612”

“But we, those who understand what life is, we, of course, laugh at numbers and numbers!”

The kid tells about his planet not everything in a row, but when it comes to the word. So, for example, it turns out that the planet is being overwhelmed by the harmful seeds of baobabs. These are such big trees that they can tear the planet apart. If only a lamb would eat baobabs when they are just starting to grow!

“There is such a firm rule,” the Little Prince told me afterwards. — You got up in the morning, washed your face, put yourself in order, and immediately put your planet in order... If you give free rein to the baobabs, trouble will not be avoided.

The narrator draws a small planet that is being torn apart by scary trees. He wants to convey to everyone "that this is terribly important and urgent."

"O Little Prince! Little by little I realized how sad and monotonous your life was. For a long time you had only one entertainment - to admire the sunset.

Thanks to the lamb, the narrator learned the secret of the Little Prince. The boy asked why the flowers had thorns. After all, lambs eat all flowers - even those with thorns?

The pilot tries to unscrew the naughty nut in his plane and answers the first thing that came to mind:

“Flowers put out thorns just out of anger.

- I don't believe you! Flowers are weak. And simple-minded. And they try to give themselves courage. They think if they have thorns, everyone is afraid of them.

The pilot does not want to think. He has no time. He is in serious business.

- Serious business? The prince was furious.

And he talks about one planet where “a man with a purple face” lived. He was busy with “serious business”: adding up numbers. And he swelled with pride. "But he's not really human. He's a mushroom."

The fact that lambs and flowers are at war with each other is much more important than all the numbers in the world.

- If you love a flower - the only one that is no longer on any of the many millions of stars ... So: if a lamb eats it, it's the same as if all the stars went out at once!

On the planet of the Little Prince, only simple humble flowers have always grown. And suddenly, on an unknown sprout (the kid was alarmed: what if this is a new variety of baobab?) A huge bud appeared. The unknown guest kept preening. Dressed up, trying on the petals. One morning the petals opened.

“Ah, I’m completely disheveled ...” said the beauty.

The little prince could not contain his delight:

- How beautiful you are!

- Yes, truth? And mind you, I was born with the sun...

The beauty did not suffer from an excess of modesty, she was proud and touchy, capricious and demanding. She said that with her four thorns she was not afraid of tigers, and immediately demanded to put up a screen from drafts and cover it with a cap from the evening cool.

The prince took her words too much to heart. He got angry and decided to leave the planet. Now he regrets it:

“You should have just looked at the rose and enjoyed its fragrance. Never listen to what the flowers say! But I was too young then, I didn't know how to love...

The little prince was about to fly away with migratory birds. He tidied up his planet more carefully than usual, cleaned out the small volcanoes on which it was so convenient to warm up dinner, pulled out the baobab sprouts and said goodbye to the beautiful rose. She unexpectedly asked for his forgiveness. Not a word of reproach! The prince was very surprised.

She asked not to cover her with a cap anymore. Then she added:

- Don't wait, it's unbearable! Decided to leave - so leave.

She didn't want the Little Prince to see her cry. It was a very proud flower.

The prince travels to the closest asteroids to his planet.

The king lived on the first asteroid. It was very wise king. He gave his subjects only those orders that they could carry out. After all, if you give such orders, then everyone obeys you implicitly. The Little Prince wanted to yawn, and the king immediately ordered him to yawn.

“Power must first of all be reasonable. If you command your people to throw themselves into the sea, they will make a revolution, ”says the king quite rightly. The boy becomes bored on the small planet of the king without subjects and he says goodbye to the king, who would like to detain him.

But since the prince set out without hesitation, the king calls after him:

- I appoint you as an ambassador!

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On the second planet, the prince meets an ambitious man. He asks the boy to clap his hands, and bows himself. Without recognition that he is the smartest, handsomest and richest on this planet, where there is no one else, this person cannot live.

- Well, give me pleasure, admire me anyway!

“I admire,” the little prince replied, “but what joy does this give you?

And set off.

On the next planet there lived a drunkard who drank because he was ashamed. And he was ashamed because he was drinking. And he wanted to forget everything. The little prince took pity on the poor fellow and left the planet, once again convinced that adults are “very, very strange people.”

On the fourth planet, a businessman counts the stars out of love for numbers. He doesn't even know that these "little shiny things" are called stars. Business man thinks he owns these celestial bodies Because no one had thought of it before him.

The little prince tells a serious man that on his planet he waters a flower and cleans volcanoes - and there is a benefit from this. "And the stars are of no use to you..."

And the simple-hearted boy continues on his way, leaving business man with a surprised open mouth.

The fifth planet was the smallest. Only a lantern and a lamplighter were placed on it. Every minute the lamplighter lit the lantern: Good evening!" And after a minute he extinguished it: “Good afternoon!” Once the planet rotated slowly - and the lamplighter, by agreement, lit the lantern in the evening and extinguished it in the morning. He had time to sleep - more than anything in the world he loves to sleep. And now, in thirty minutes, a whole month passes on the planet. But a deal is a deal...

The boy realizes that this ridiculous person is still not as ridiculous as everyone he met earlier. “When he lights his lantern, it’s as if another star or flower is being born ... Of all of them, he alone, in my opinion, is not funny. Maybe because he thinks not only about himself ... "

The little prince sighed.

“Here’s someone I could be friends with,” he thought again. “But his planet is too tiny. There is no room for two…”

He did not dare to admit to himself that he regrets this wonderful planet most of all for one more reason: in twenty-four hours you can admire the sunset on it one thousand four hundred and forty times!

And that meant he was very, very sad...

“The sixth planet was ten times the size of the previous one. It was inhabited by an old man who wrote thick books.

It was a geographer - a scientist who knows where the seas, rivers, cities are ... But he himself does not know if there are oceans and mountains on his planet. “The geographer is too important a person, he has no time to roam. He doesn't leave his office. But he receives travelers and writes down their stories ... "

The geographer asks the traveler boy to tell about his planet. The little prince talks about his three volcanoes: two active and one extinct. And one more thing about your flower.

“We don’t celebrate flowers… flowers are ephemeral…” answers the scientist. — ... We write about things that are eternal and unchanging.

That is, it should disappear soon. That's what the word "ephemeral" means.

“My beauty and joy are short-lived,” the little prince said to himself, “and she has nothing to protect herself from the world, she only has four thorns. And I left her, and she was left on my planet all alone!”

He regretted the abandoned flower, but his courage immediately returned to him.

The geographer advised the boy to visit planet Earth.

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"So the seventh planet he visited was Earth."

On Earth, “there are one hundred and eleven kings (including, of course, Negro kings), seven thousand geographers, nine hundred thousand businessmen, seven and a half million drunkards, three hundred and eleven million ambitious people. In the meantime, electricity had not been invented, and a whole army of lamplighters had to be kept...

However, there are places on earth where there are no people. These are deserts. The little prince was just in the desert. The snake became his first interlocutor.

“It’s still lonely in the desert,” said the boy.

"It's lonely among people, too," said the snake.

The snake informs the boy that although it is not thicker than a finger, it has more power than a king's finger. Everyone she touches, she returns to "the land from which he came."

The snake promised the boy on the day when he bitterly regrets his abandoned planet, to return him back...

In the desert, the boy met only one flower - nondescript, with three petals. When asked about people, the flower replied that he had seen them once, a very long time ago. And what is interesting about them, about these people, they are carried by the wind, they have no roots. It is very uncomfortable.

Climbing up high mountain, The little prince saw only rocks - "high and thin, like needles."

And only an echo answered him.

"Let's be friends, I'm all alone..." the boy said.

“One, one, one…” echoed.

The little prince is sad:

- At home I had a flower, my beauty and joy, and he always spoke first.

Through the sands and snows the traveler reached a garden full of roses. And they all looked like his flower! And his beauty said that there were no others like her in the entire Universe!

How upset she would be when she saw all these roses, coughed and even died - to humiliate the prince.

What did he have? Three volcanoes and a simple rose. What kind of a prince is he after that?

"He lay down on the grass and wept."

This is where Lis came in.

The little prince was delighted:

- How beautiful you are! .. Play with me!

The fox replied that he could not play - he was not tamed.

- And how is it - to tame? the boy asked.

The fox started from afar:

- My life is boring. I hunt chickens and people hunt me. All chickens are the same and people are all the same. And my life is boring. But if you tame me, my life will be like the sun. I will distinguish your steps among thousands of others... I don't eat bread. I don't need spikes. Wheat fields mean nothing to me. But you have golden hair... Golden wheat will remind me of you... Please tame me!

— And what should be done for this?

“First, sit down over there, a little way off... Be quiet. Words only make it difficult to understand each other. But every day, sit down a little closer... it's better to always come at the same hour. Then I, if the meeting is scheduled for four o'clock, will begin to feel happy from three. I know the price of happiness! And you come every time at a different time, and I don’t know what hour to prepare my heart for ... You need to follow the rites.

- What are rituals?

“It's something long forgotten. Something that makes one day different from the next. Here, for example, hunters dance with girls on Thursdays - and I, Fox, go for a walk. I can go all the way to the vineyards...

The Little Prince tamed the Fox. And then it was time to say goodbye. And the Fox said he would cry. But he will not feel bad: "Remember what I said about the golden ears."

The boy went to look at the roses.

“You are nothing like my rose. You are nothing. No one has tamed you, you have not tamed anyone. This was before my Fox. He was no different from a hundred thousand other foxes. But I made friends with him - and now he is the only one in the whole world ... That's how my rose is. I took care of her, I listened to how she complained and how she boasted. I listened to her even when she was silent. She is mine.

And the Fox revealed to him a very simple secret:

“…Only the heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes. Your rose is so dear to you because you gave it all your days ... People have forgotten this truth, but do not forget: you are forever responsible for everyone you tamed.

“I am responsible for my rose,” said the little prince.

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The little prince told about the meeting with the switchman. This man translated the arrows of oncoming trains, where thousands of people were traveling. The boy asked:

“Were these people not well where they were before?”

"It's good where we're not," the switchman replied.

And continued:

“People in the carriages are sleeping or yawning… Only children are pressing their noses against the glass…”

“Only children press their noses,” said the little prince. - They give all their days to a rag doll, and it becomes very dear to them, and if it is taken from them, the children cry ...

“Their luck,” said the switchman.

Then the boy met a seller of anti-thirst pills. You swallow such a pill - and then you don’t want to drink for a whole week. This frees up fifty-three minutes a week. And do what you want during this time!

“If I had fifty-three minutes free,” thought the Little Prince, “I would simply go to the spring ...”

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A pilot working on a plane repair has run out of water. The boy suggested that he go look for a well. For a long time they walked in silence.

Do you know why the desert is good? - said the kid. “Because somewhere in it springs are hidden ...

The child fell asleep and the pilot carried him in his arms. An adult was carrying a child - and it seemed to him that he was carrying the most fragile treasure. The boy's loyalty to the flower was like the flame of a lamp. "Lamps must be protected: a gust of wind can extinguish them..."

At dawn, the pilot reached the well. It was just like a village one: a collar, a rope, a bucket ... And the creak of the gate was like music.

The boy drank water from a bucket. He drank with his eyes closed. "And it was like the most beautiful feast on earth."

“On your planet, people grow five thousand roses and don't find what they're looking for. But what they are looking for can be found in a single sip of water and in a single rose ...

It turned out that the well is located almost in the place where a year ago the Little Prince first found himself on Earth. The pilot hears the boy talking to the snake. An adult is very scared, a premonition of irreparable trouble takes possession of him. The pilot gives the boy his drawings: a portrait of the Fox, a planet with baobabs, and, of course, a lamb. And for the lamb - a muzzle so that he does not eat the rose.

“Baby, I want to hear more of you laughing…”

But the boy said:

“Tonight my star will rise just above the places where I fell a year ago... My body is too heavy, I can't take it with me. I will return home today. And you too.

I know you managed to fix the plane... You know... Don't come back tonight... you'll think I'm in pain, that I'm dying. But it's not like that... Don't go. What if the snake bites you too? Snakes - they are evil ... True, she does not have enough poison for two.

The pilot still followed his little friend. But he turned to him with a request - to allow him to take the last step alone.

The kid sat down on the sand because he was scared. But he remembered his rose, so weak, so innocent.

“Like yellow lightning flashed at his feet. For a moment he remained motionless. Didn't scream. Then he fell—slowly, like a tree falls. Slowly and inaudibly, because the sand muffles the weight of the sounds.

Since then, six years have passed. The narrator fixed the plane and returned to his comrades. He believes that the prince has returned to his planet - after all, in the morning the pilot did not find his body on the sand.

“... At night I like to listen to the stars. Like five hundred million bells...

But... When I drew the lamb muzzle, I forgot about the strap! The little prince will not be able to put it on a lamb. And I ask myself: is something being done there, on his planet? Suddenly the lamb ate a rose?

Take a look at the sky. And ask yourself: is that rose still alive or is it gone? Suddenly the lamb ate it?

No adult will ever understand how important this is!”

If a little boy with golden hair comes up to you, you will certainly guess who he is. “Then, I beg you! - do not forget to console me in my sadness, write to me soon that he has returned ... "

The little Prince

At the age of six, the boy read about how a boa constrictor swallows its prey, and drew a snake that swallowed an elephant. It was a drawing of a boa constrictor on the outside, but the adults claimed it was a hat. Adults always need to explain everything, so the boy made another drawing - a boa constrictor from the inside. Then the adults advised the boy to give up this nonsense - according to them, he should have done more geography, history, arithmetic and spelling. So the boy abandoned a brilliant career as an artist. He had to choose a different profession: he grew up and became a pilot, but still showed his first drawing to those adults who seemed to him smarter and more intelligent than the rest, and everyone answered that it was a hat. It was impossible to talk heart to heart with them - about boas, jungles and stars. And the pilot lived alone until he met the Little Prince.

It happened in the Sahara. Something broke in the plane's engine: the pilot had to fix it or die, because there was only water left for a week. At dawn, the pilot was awakened by a thin voice - a tiny baby with golden hair, unknown how he got into the desert, asked him to draw a lamb for him. The astonished pilot did not dare to refuse, especially since his new friend was the only one who managed to make out in the first drawing a boa constrictor that had swallowed an elephant. Gradually it turned out that the Little Prince Came from a planet called "asteroid B-612" - of course, the number is only necessary for boring adults who love numbers.

The whole planet was the size of a house, and the Little Prince had to take care of it: every day to clean three volcanoes - two active and one extinct, and also weed out the sprouts of baobabs. The pilot did not immediately understand what danger the baobabs posed, but then he guessed and, in order to warn all the children, he drew a planet where a lazy person lived, who did not weed out three bushes in time. But the Little Prince always put his planet in order. But his life was sad and lonely, so he loved to watch the sunset - especially when he was sad. He did this several times a day, simply by moving his chair to follow the sun. Everything changed when a wonderful flower appeared on his planet, it was a beauty with thorns - proud, touchy and ingenuous. The little prince fell in love with her, but she seemed to him capricious, cruel and arrogant - he was then too young and did not understand how this flower lit up his life. And so the Little Prince cleaned his volcanoes for the last time, pulled out the sprouts of baobabs, and then said goodbye to his flower, which only at the moment of farewell admitted that he loved him.

He went on a journey and visited six neighboring asteroids. The king lived on the first one: he so wanted to have subjects that he offered the Little Prince to become a minister, and the kid thought that adults were very strange people. On the second planet lived an ambitious person, on the third - a drunkard, on the fourth - a businessman, and on the fifth - a lamplighter. All adults seemed extremely strange to the Little Prince, and only he liked the Lamplighter: this man remained faithful to the agreement to light the lamps in the evenings and extinguish the lanterns in the mornings, although his planet was so reduced that day and night changed every minute. Don't be so small here. The little prince would have stayed with the Lamplighter, because he really wanted to make friends with someone - besides, on this planet you could admire the sunset one thousand four hundred and forty times a day!

On the sixth planet lived a geographer. And since he was a geographer, he was supposed to ask travelers about the countries where they came from in order to write down their stories in books. The little prince wanted to tell about his flower, but the geographer explained that only mountains and oceans are written in books, because they are eternal and unchanging, and flowers do not live long. Only then did the Little Prince realize that his beauty would soon disappear, and he left her alone, without protection and help! But the insult has not yet passed, and the Little Prince went on, but he thought only of his abandoned flower.

The seventh was the Earth - a very difficult planet! Suffice it to say that there are one hundred and eleven kings, seven thousand geographers, nine hundred thousand businessmen, seven and a half million drunkards, three hundred and eleven million ambitious people - a total of about two billion adults. But the Little Prince made friends only with the snake, the Fox and the pilot. The snake promised to help him when he bitterly regrets his planet. And Fox taught him to be friends. Everyone can tame someone and become his friend, but you always need to be responsible for those whom you have tamed. And the Fox also said that only the heart is vigilant - you cannot see the most important thing with your eyes. Then the Little Prince decided to return to his rose, because he was responsible for it. He went to the desert - to the very place where he fell. So they met the pilot. The pilot drew him a lamb in a box and even a muzzle for a lamb, although he used to think that he could only draw boas - inside and out. The little prince was happy, but the pilot felt sad - he realized that he was also tamed. Then the Little Prince found a yellow snake, whose bite kills in half a minute: she helped him, as promised. The snake can return everyone to where he came from - she returns people to the earth, and she returned the Little Prince to the stars. The kid told the pilot that it would only look like death, so there is no need to be sad - let the pilot remember him, looking at the night sky. And when the Little Prince laughs, it will seem to the pilot that all the stars are laughing like five hundred million bells.

The pilot repaired his plane, and his comrades rejoiced at his return. Since then six years have passed: little by little he was comforted and fell in love with looking at the stars. But he is always excited: he forgot to draw a muzzle strap, and the lamb could eat the rose. Then it seems to him that all the bells are crying. After all, if the rose is no longer in the world, everything will be different, but no adult will ever understand how important this is.

It happened in the Sahara. Something broke in the plane's engine: the pilot had to fix it or die, because there was only water left for a week. At dawn, the pilot was awakened by a thin voice - a tiny baby with golden hair, unknown how he got into the desert, asked him to draw a lamb for him. The astonished pilot did not dare to refuse, especially since his new friend was the only one who managed to make out in the first drawing a boa constrictor that had swallowed an elephant. Gradually it turned out that the Little Prince Arrived from a planet called "asteroid B-612" - of course, the number is necessary only for boring adults who love numbers.

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"The Little Prince" summary by chapter

Are you scared? the boy asked.

Is the hat scary? they asked him in response.

But it was not a hat at all, but a boa constrictor that had swallowed an elephant.

Drawing No. 2 depicted a boa constrictor from the inside.

“Adults never understand anything themselves, and for children it is very tiring to endlessly explain and interpret everything to them.”

So the narrator "abandoned the career of an artist" and trained as a pilot. He flew around almost the whole world and met a lot of adults. If one of the adults seemed to him more intelligent than others, he showed him his drawing No. 1. “But they all answered:“ This is a hat. And the pilot "no longer talked to them about boas, or the jungle, or the stars."
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Once the narrator had to make an emergency landing in the Sahara. The pilot was alone: no passengers, no mechanic. He decided to fix the plane himself, because otherwise he would have died.

"There was no habitation for thousands of miles around." However, at dawn, the narrator "was awakened by someone's thin voice."

"He said:

Please draw me a lamb.

Draw me a lamb...

I jumped up as if thunder had struck me. I rubbed my eyes."

And the boy sees in the box just such a lamb as it should:

Check this out! He fell asleep...
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The boy looks at the plane

So you fell out of the sky too?

In a conversation, it turns out that the baby’s planet is itself very small: “If you go straight and straight, you won’t go far ...” For adults who love numbers, it is reported that the planet is called “asteroid B-612”

“But we, those who understand what life is, we, of course, laugh at numbers and numbers!”

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The kid tells about his planet not everything in a row, but when it comes to the word. So, for example, it turns out that the planet is being overwhelmed by the harmful seeds of baobabs. These are such big trees that they can tear the planet apart. If only a lamb would eat baobabs when they are just starting to grow!

There is such a firm rule, - the Little Prince told me after. - You got up in the morning, washed your face, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order ... If you give free rein to baobabs, trouble cannot be avoided.

The narrator draws a small planet that is being torn apart by scary trees. He wants to convey to everyone "that this is terribly important and urgent."
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"O Little Prince! Little by little I realized how sad and monotonous your life was. For a long time you had only one entertainment - to admire the sunset.

On a small planet, all you have to do is move your chair a few steps and you don't have to wait for the sun to begin to sink below the horizon. When you are very sad, it is good to watch the sun go down. Once in one day, the baby saw the sunset forty-three times. Can you imagine how sad he was?
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Thanks to the lamb, the narrator learned the secret of the Little Prince. The boy asked why the flowers had thorns. After all, lambs eat all flowers - even those with thorns?

The pilot tries to unscrew the naughty nut in his plane and answers the first thing that came to mind:

Flowers release thorns just out of anger.

I don't believe you! Flowers are weak. And simple-minded. And they try to give themselves courage. They think if they have thorns, everyone is afraid of them.

The pilot does not want to think. He has no time. He is in serious business.

Serious business? - not a little angry prince.

The fact that lambs and flowers are at war with each other is much more important than all the numbers in the world.

If you love a flower - the only one that is no longer on any of the many millions of stars ... So: if a lamb eats it, it's the same as if all the stars went out at once!

The boy burst into tears. And the pilot, forgetting about the naughty nut, cradles him and promises to make a muzzle for the lamb, draw armor for the flower ... “How to call so that he hears, how to catch up with his soul, eluding me? After all, it is so mysterious and unknown, this country of tears ... "
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On the planet of the Little Prince, only simple humble flowers have always grown. And suddenly, on an unknown sprout (the kid was alarmed: what if this is a new variety of baobab?) A huge bud appeared. The unknown guest kept preening. Dressed up, trying on the petals. One morning the petals opened.

Oh, I'm completely disheveled ... - said the beauty.

The little prince could not contain his delight:

How beautiful you are!

Yes, truth? And mind you, I was born with the sun...

The prince took her words too much to heart. He got angry - and decided to leave the planet. Now he regrets it:

You just had to look at the rose and enjoy its fragrance. Never listen to what the flowers say! But then I was too young, I did not know how to love ...
9
The little prince was about to fly away with migratory birds. He tidied up his planet more carefully than usual, cleaned out the small volcanoes on which it was so convenient to warm up dinner, pulled out the baobab sprouts and said goodbye to the beautiful rose. She unexpectedly asked for his forgiveness. Not a word of reproach! The prince was very surprised.

She asked not to cover her with a cap anymore. Then she added:

Don't wait, it's unbearable! Decided to leave - so leave.

She didn't want the Little Prince to see her cry. It was a very proud flower.
10
The prince travels to the closest asteroids to his planet.

The king lived on the first asteroid. This was a very wise king. He gave his subjects only those orders that they could carry out. After all, if you give such orders, then everyone obeys you implicitly. The Little Prince wanted to yawn, and the king immediately ordered him to yawn.

“Power must first of all be reasonable. If you command your people to throw themselves into the sea, they will make a revolution,” the king quite rightly asserts. The boy becomes bored on the small planet of the king without subjects and he says goodbye to the king, who would like to detain him.

But since the prince set out without hesitation, the king calls after him:

I appoint you as an ambassador!
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On the second planet, the prince meets an ambitious man. He asks the boy to clap his hands, and bows himself. Without recognition that he is the smartest, handsomest and richest on this planet, where there is no one else, this person cannot live.

Well, give me pleasure, admire me anyway!

I admire, - answered the little prince, - but what kind of joy does this give you?

And set off.

On the next planet there lived a drunkard who drank because he was ashamed. And he was ashamed because he was drinking. And he wanted to forget everything. The little prince took pity on the poor fellow and left the planet, once again making sure that adults are "very, very strange people."

On the fourth planet, a businessman counts the stars out of love for numbers. He doesn't even know that these "little shiny things" are called stars. A business man thinks that he owns these celestial bodies - after all, no one has thought of this before him.

The little prince tells a serious man that on his planet he waters a flower and cleans volcanoes - and there is a benefit from this. “And the stars are of no use to you…”

And the simple-hearted boy continues on his way, leaving the business man with his mouth open in surprise.

The fifth planet was the smallest. Only a lantern and a lamplighter were placed on it. Every minute the lamplighter lit the lantern: "Good evening!" And after a minute he extinguished it: “Good afternoon!” Once the planet rotated slowly - and the lamplighter, by agreement, lit the lantern in the evening and extinguished it in the morning. He had time to sleep - more than anything he loves to sleep. And now, in thirty minutes, a whole month passes on the planet. But a deal is a deal...

The little prince sighed.

“That's who I could make friends with,” he thought again. - But his planet is too tiny. There is no room for two…”

And this meant that he was very, very sad ...

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“The sixth planet was ten times the size of the previous one. It was inhabited by an old man who wrote thick books.

The geographer asks the traveler boy to tell about his planet. The little prince talks about his three volcanoes: two active and one extinct. And one more thing about your flower.

We don't celebrate flowers... flowers are ephemeral... - answers the scientist. - ... We write about eternal and unchanging things.

That is, it should disappear soon. That's what the word "ephemeral" means.

“My beauty and joy are short-lived,” the Little Prince said to himself, “and she has nothing to protect herself from the world, she only has four thorns. And I left her, and she was left on my planet all alone!”

He regretted the abandoned flower, but his courage immediately returned to him.

The geographer advised the boy to visit planet Earth.
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"So the seventh planet he visited was Earth."

On Earth, “there are one hundred and eleven kings (including, of course, Negro kings), seven thousand geographers, nine hundred thousand businessmen, seven and a half million drunkards, three hundred and eleven million ambitious people. In the meantime, they had not invented electricity, they also had to keep a whole army of lamplighters ...

However, there are places on earth where there are no people. These are deserts. The little prince was just in the desert. The snake became his first interlocutor.

It's still lonely in the desert ... - said the boy.

It’s lonely among people, too, - the snake noticed.

The snake informs the boy that although it is not thicker than a finger, it has more power than a king's finger. Everyone she touches, she returns to "the land from which he came."

The snake promised the boy on the day when he bitterly regrets his abandoned planet, to return him back ...

In the desert, the boy met only one flower - nondescript, with three petals. When asked about people, the flower replied that he had seen them once, a very long time ago. And what is interesting in them, in these people - they are carried by the wind, they have no roots. It is very uncomfortable.

Climbing a high mountain, the Little Prince saw only rocks - "high and thin, like needles."

And only an echo answered him.

Let's be friends, I'm all alone ... - said the boy.

One, one, one ... - the echo answered.

The little prince is sad:

At home I had a flower, my beauty and joy, and he always spoke first.
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Through the sands and snows the traveler reached a garden full of roses. And they all looked like his flower! And his beauty said that there were no others like her in the entire Universe!

How upset she would be when she saw all these roses, coughed and even died - to humiliate the prince.

What did he have? Three volcanoes and a simple rose. What kind of a prince is he after that?

"He lay down on the grass and wept."
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Suddenly he was greeted by Fox sitting under an apple tree. He was not tamed and could not play with the baby. The fox told the Little Prince that people go hunting with guns and raise chickens. The fox was also lonely and dreamed of being tamed: “But if you tame me, my life will light up like the sun. Your steps I will distinguish among thousands of others. The fox began to teach the Little Prince the art of domestication: when to come and what to do. “You can only learn those things that you tame,” said the Fox. “People do not have enough time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But there are no shops where friends would trade, and therefore people no longer have friends. But still, it's time to part. The little prince was very sorry that now the Fox would be hurt and he would start crying. Saying goodbye, the Fox promised the kid to reveal the secret, but only after he returns to the garden and realizes that his rose is a unique flower. The little prince came to the roses and said that they were “beautiful, but empty” and no one would give their life for them: only the one you tamed, protected and loved is yours and only. Returning, the Little Prince learned the secret, Fox: “only the heart is vigilant. You can’t see the most important thing with your eyes.” The kid repeated this secret so as not to forget it, and the Fox continued: "... Do not forget: you are always responsible for everyone you tamed."

I am responsible for my rose, said the little prince.
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Then the little prince met switchman, whose job was to sort and send passengers. The kid could not understand where and why all these people were going, why they were in a hurry and what they were looking for. “Were they not well where they were before?” the little prince asked. “It's good where we are not,” the interlocutor answered him.

And the Little Prince came to the conclusion that only children "know what they are looking for."
Then the boy met a seller of anti-thirst pills. You swallow such a pill - and then you don’t want to drink for a whole week. This frees up fifty-three minutes a week. And do what you want during this time!

“If I had fifty-three minutes free,” thought the Little Prince, “I would simply go to the spring ...”
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A pilot working on a plane repair has run out of water. The boy suggested that he go look for a well. For a long time they walked in silence.

Do you know why the desert is good? - said the kid. - Because somewhere in it springs are hidden ...

The child fell asleep and the pilot carried him in his arms. An adult was carrying a child - and it seemed to him that he was carrying the most fragile treasure. The boy's loyalty to the flower was like the flame of a lamp. “Lamps must be protected: a gust of wind can extinguish them ...”

At dawn, the pilot reached the well. It was exactly like a village one: a collar, a rope, a bucket ... And the creak of the gate was like music.

The boy drank water from a bucket. He drank with his eyes closed. "And it was like the most beautiful feast on earth."

On your planet, people grow five thousand roses and don't find what they're looking for. But what they are looking for can be found in a single sip of water and in a single rose ...

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It turned out that the well is located almost in the place where a year ago the Little Prince first found himself on Earth. The pilot hears the boy talking to the snake. An adult is very scared, a premonition of irreparable trouble takes possession of him. The pilot gives the boy his drawings: a portrait of the Fox, a planet with baobabs, and, of course, a lamb. And for the lamb - a muzzle so that he does not eat the rose.

Baby, I want to hear you laugh more...

But the boy said:

Tonight my star will be just above the places where I fell a year ago... My body is too heavy, I can't take it with me. I will return home today. And you too.

The pilot still followed his little friend. But he turned to him with a request - to allow him to take the last step alone.

The kid sat down on the sand because he was scared. But he remembered his rose, so weak, so innocent.

“Like yellow lightning flashed at his feet. For a moment he remained motionless. Didn't scream. Then he fell - slowly, like a tree falls. Slowly and inaudibly, because the sand muffles the weight of the sounds.
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Since then, six years have passed. The narrator fixed the plane and returned to his comrades. He believes that the prince returned to his planet - after all, in the morning the pilot did not find his body on the sand.

“... At night I like to listen to the stars. Like five hundred million bells...

But... When I was drawing the lamb muzzle, I forgot about the strap! The little prince will not be able to put it on a lamb. And I ask myself: is something being done there, on his planet? Suddenly the lamb ate a rose?

Take a look at the sky. And ask yourself: is that rose still alive or is it gone? Suddenly the lamb ate it?

No adult will ever understand how important this is!”

If a little boy with golden hair comes up to you, you will certainly guess who he is. “Then, I beg you! - do not forget to console me in my sadness, write to me soon that he has returned ... "