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At the age of six, in the book " True Stories"The author saw an image of a boa constrictor swallowing a wild beast, after which he drew his first drawing in his life, which adults mistook for a hat. The boy tried to explain to them their mistake by depicting an elephant inside a snake in the second picture. Adults advised not to draw either elephants or snakes, but to do more natural sciences. The boy grew up and became a pilot instead of an artist. For a long time he tried to find among the adults those who would understand him, but in vain.

Six years ago, after making an emergency landing in the Sahara, the author met a little man who asked him to draw a lamb for him. He warned the kid that he couldn't draw and offered him a picture of a "hat". The strange stranger immediately recognized the elephant in the boa constrictor, found them too dangerous and large, and again asked the author to draw him a little lamb. The pilot made drawings several times, but they did not suit the kid. Then he drew a box on paper and said that exactly the lamb that the child needed was sitting in it.

On the third day of our acquaintance, the author learned from the Little Prince about the tragedy of baobabs, whose sprouts must be weeded out as soon as they begin to differ from the sprouts of rose bushes, otherwise huge trees will grow and tear the planet apart. On the fourth morning, the kid told the pilot about his favorite pastime - to admire the sunsets. On the fifth day, the author brought the Little Prince to tears when he said in a conversation the first thing that came to his mind about flower thorns. The kid was afraid that the lamb would eat his favorite flower, even despite the sharp thorns.

The flowers on the planet of the Little Prince were tiny. They opened in the morning and withered in the evening. But one day, a new, unknown sprout appeared from the ground, which preened for a long time and turned into a beautiful Rose. The beauty turned out to be proud and capricious. A little prince was angry at her words and did not immediately understand that it was necessary to love Rose for her wonderful aroma.

Before the trip, he carefully cleaned up his planet: he cleaned two active and one extinct volcano. Rose confessed her love to the Little Prince and asked for forgiveness for her stupidity.

On the first asteroid, the kid met with a reasonable king, who understood that it was impossible to demand from his subjects what they could not fulfill. The second planet brought the Little Prince an acquaintance with an ambitious man who saw him as an enthusiastic admirer. On the third planet, the hero met a drunkard who drank wine from the fact that he was ashamed ... to drink. The fourth asteroid turned out to be the habitat of a businessman who was so busy adding numbers that he did not immediately remember what he was adding up. He called himself the owner of the stars, but could not explain to the Little Prince what benefit he and the stars themselves would benefit from this. On the fifth, smallest of all planets, the traveler met a lamplighter who did nothing but light and extinguish the lantern. The sixth asteroid was ten times the size of the fifth. The old geographer who lived on it wrote thick books and invited the Little Prince to visit the Earth.

The earth turned out amazing planet, populated huge amount kings, ambitious people, drunkards, business people and lamplighters - total two billion adults. The snake met the Little Prince first. She told him that people do not live in deserts, and told him about her power. The snake wanted to kill the traveler, but abandoned this thought, realizing that he was pure in heart.

While crossing the desert, the Little Prince met with one nondescript flower, which shared with him his memories of the people who passed him in the caravan. Having climbed a high mountain, the hero saw nothing but sharp rocks, from which his greeting to people echoed. The road found in the process of wandering led the Little Prince to a garden where five thousand roses bloomed. The traveler was terribly upset when he learned that his flower was just one of many. When he lay down in the grass and wept, the Fox appeared before him.

The little prince asked the animal to play with him, but it refused. The fox said that in the beginning the kid should tame him, and then he would be for him - the only little boy in the whole world. The wild beast, complaining about boredom, explained to the child how best to establish relations with him: to come at the same time, each time sitting closer and closer.

When the Fox was tamed, the Little Prince got ready to go again. He said goodbye to the garden roses, telling them that they were nothing to him, since he never cared for them. In parting, the Fox made a gift to the Little Prince: he told the most main secret, long forgotten by people that "only one heart is vigilant" and man "forever responsible for everyone he tamed".

The switchman he met told the hero about how people travel: not knowing what they are looking for, in a state of boredom or sleep. “Only children press their noses against the windows”. The pill dealer told me that with the help of thirst-quenching pills, fifty-three minutes of time can be saved in a week. Having drunk the last sip of water, the pilot interrupted the story of the Little Prince, saying that he would have to die. The kid could not understand for a long time why, at such a moment, the author did not want to think about the Fox, but then he said that he was also thirsty and offered to go to the spring together. At the halt, the child fell asleep. The author picked it up and moved on.

At dawn, the pilot went to the well. The little prince asked for water. By the reluctance of the kid to answer his questions, the author realized that he had been on Earth for a year and decided to return to his home planet. The next evening, the pilot overheard a conversation between the Little Prince and a snake that promised to kill the child with poison. In parting, the boy gave the author his laughter, giving the ability to laugh and all the stars in the sky. He took the memory of the well with him.

For six years, the pilot did not tell anyone about this meeting, but he did not stop looking at the sky and thinking about what was happening with the Little Prince, Rose and the lamb, to whose muzzle he forgot to add a strap.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"A 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 refused brilliant career artist. He had to choose a different profession: he grew up and became a pilot, but as before he 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 needed 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 he cleaned three volcanoes - two active and one extinct, and also weeded out the sprouts of baobabs. The pilot did not immediately understand the danger baobabs pose, 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 cleared in last time his volcanoes, 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 a very strange people. On the second planet lived an ambitious man, 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 fourteen 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 had previously thought 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 were delighted with 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.

Once a boy of about six decided to draw a boa constrictor that swallowed an elephant, but the adults, looking at the drawing, all unanimously answered that it was a hat. He drew a boa constrictor in a section, then the adults advised him to quit drawing and study something useful: geography, history, arithmetic. He put an end to the career of an artist and chose the profession of a pilot. But his children's drawings were always with him, and he showed them to those adults who seemed smart to him, but the answer was always the same, all adults believed that the picture was a hat. This continued until the pilot's plane broke down in the middle of the Sahara and he met the Little Prince there. Something broke in the engine, and the pilot had to fix the breakdown himself or die among the sands, since he only had water for a week. In the morning he was awakened by a child's voice, which demanded to draw him a lamb and a muzzle for him, a little boy with golden hair stood near the pilot. He did not dare to refuse the boy, as he immediately saw the boa constrictor swallowing the elephant in the first picture. From the stories of the Little Prince, the pilot gradually learned that he had flown from a planet called "asteroid B-612".

This planet was very small, the size of a house, the Little Prince lived on it alone, respectively, and he also looked after her himself. In his possessions there were 3 volcanoes, two active and one extinct, but his Little Prince also cleared, you never know. Every morning he weeded out the baobab sprouts, as they were a great danger. When he was sad and sad, he looked at the sunset, and on very sad days he could see the sunset up to 20 times in a row, just by moving the chair. His life changed with the appearance on his planet of a very proud beauty with thorns, the seed of a rose was brought to him, he looked after a proud, capricious flower, fell in love with her, but the rose did not reciprocate. And only when he was going on a trip, the Little Prince heard that the rose also loves him.

With migratory birds, the Little Prince flew off to travel to neighboring planets. On the first lived the king, who lacked subjects and did not want to let the Little Prince go, on the second - an ambitious man who demanded worship, on the third - a drunkard, on the fourth - a business man, on the fifth - a lamplighter. All these adults were very strange, and only the Little Prince liked the Lamplighter, he could have stayed, but the planet was too small for two. A geographer lived on the sixth planet - he wrote down the stories of travelers, the Little Prince told him about his rose, but he only needed stories about rivers, mountains, seas and oceans, he was not interested in plants, because they do not live long. At that moment, the Little Prince missed his flower, but did not return, as he was still angry with her. The seventh planet was Earth, a very strange planet where there are more than 2 billion adults who are always in a hurry somewhere, writing everything down and not understanding you at all. On the whole Earth, the Little Prince made friends only with the snake, the Fox and the pilot. The snake promised to return him home when he was very bored, the Fox taught him to be friends. After all, everyone can become a friend or tame someone, the main thing to remember is that you need to be responsible for those you have tamed. The little prince realized that the rose had tamed him and he was responsible for her. He traveled the Earth for a year and returned to the desert so that the snake would help him return home. She can send anyone home, people to the ground, and the Little Prince to the stars.

The little prince warned the pilot that it would be like death, but there was no need to be sad, he would return home. The boy left his laugh as a memento for the pilot. Now, when he looks into the night sky, it seems to him that the stars are laughing with millions of bells.

The pilot was able to repair his plane and fly home, everyone was happy about his return, but he was sad for a long, long time, loved to look at the stars and reproached himself for forgetting to draw a lamb strap on the muzzle. When he imagined that the lamb could damage the Little Prince's rose, it seemed to him that the bells were crying.

Compositions

/ "A little prince"

In the story-tale "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, we are talking about a boy who sees the world not like ordinary people. This work begins with the author's dedication to his to the best friend— Leon Werth.

Even at the age of six, the author of the story saw in the book an image of a boa constrictor swallowing a victim, being impressed by the picture, he decided to draw it. But adults misunderstood the work of the child, seeing an ordinary hat in the picture.

The boy did not lose heart and decided to once again prove his vision by depicting an elephant inside a snake. This time the adults did not understand him at all, they asked him not to draw anything else at all, but to study exact sciences. The author of the fairy tale-story grew up, he never became an artist, he chose another profession - a pilot. AND for a long time stubbornly, but in vain, he tried to find those who could understand him.

Six years ago, our author-pilot was forced to land in the Sahara. It was here that a meeting with an amazing little man took place, who asked to draw a lamb for him. The author honestly admitted to the kid that not everything was going smoothly with his drawing and showed that ill-fated drawing to prove his words. Oddly enough, but the stranger easily identified what is shown in the picture, he did not see any hat there. True, the elephant and the boa constrictor seemed to him dangerous animals, and he asked to draw just a tiny lamb.

The pilot had to make several sketches, but the kid did not like any of them. This lesson ended with the fact that the author depicted a box, inside which, according to him, is exactly the lamb that the child so dreamed of seeing.

After talking with the Little Prince, the pilot guessed that he had flown from the tiny asteroid B 612.

The fourth day brought a new discovery. The little prince said that he loves to watch sunsets.

On the fifth day, an unpleasant event occurred - the boy was moved to tears, because he was afraid that the lamb would eat his favorite flower, not even being afraid of its thorns.

In general, all the flowers on the planet of the Little Prince were small and inconspicuous. Their main feature is that, blooming in the morning, by the evening they have already faded. And one day a new sprout appeared, which after a while turned into beautiful flower- a rose distinguished by pride. The little prince was annoyed at the charming whim, but soon realized that you need to love the Rose for her unique and incomparable smell.

Before going on a trip, the boy did the cleaning - he cleaned the volcanoes. He was so detailed in all matters, albeit small.

The first asteroid that the kid landed on introduced him to a reasonable king who does not require from his subordinates what they could not do.

But on the second planet lived an ambitious man. The little prince treated him with great respect. On the third planet, the acquaintance was less pleasant - there lived a drunkard.

A business man lived on the fourth asteroid. Having delved into the addition of numbers, he could not immediately be distracted and did not even remember what and why he was counting. This business man called himself the owner of the stars, but he could not coherently explain what the use of the stars was and why they were needed.

The fifth planet was the smallest in size. Here the traveler made acquaintance with the lamplighter. The whole life of this man consisted in the fact that he lit and extinguished a lantern.

The sixth asteroid was huge. The old man living on it was fond of geography and wrote multi-page books. It was he who told the Little Prince that there is a planet Earth and advised to visit it.

What did the traveler see on our planet? It turned out that many of those whom he had already met lived on it. There are drunkards, and kings, and those who light lanterns, and the total mass of the population is two billion people.

The little prince is in the desert. Crossing it, he started a conversation with an inconspicuous flower, who shared with him his opinion about people. He saw them as part of a caravan passing by one day.

The traveler wanted to greet the people and climbed the mountain. From there you can see the sharp rocks. And there was nothing else in the area. The little prince searched for a way for a long time and finally came across a garden in which a huge number of roses grew. The kid was upset by the realization of the fact that his favorite is not the only and unique. This discovery again turned into tears. At that moment, Fox appeared.

The little prince wanted to play with the animal, but in order to do this, you must first tame the beast. This process is not complicated - to come at the same time and move closer every day.

The boy quickly tamed the Fox, but he could not stay on the ground for a long time and again got ready to go. At parting, the beast revealed to him an important secret: a person must be responsible for those whom he tamed.

The pilot finished his water and decided to stop the story of the extraordinary man he met. The author told the prince that he would have to die. The kid wanted to drink, and together they went to the spring. When the child fell asleep, the author picked him up and went on.

On the way they met a well, and the boy wanted to drink water from it. The little prince did not respond to questions, remained indifferent and sad. The author realized that he wanted to return home. For this, he even persuaded the snake to poison him with poison.

The boy nevertheless returned to his native planet, taking with him the memory of the well. He also left a memory of himself - laughter.

Six for long years the pilot did not tell anyone about this amazing acquaintance. But all the time he looked at the sky and remembered the little extraordinary man, wondering how his friend the Little Prince lives there.

“After all, all adults were children at first, only few of them remember this.”

This book can be read in 30 minutes, but this fact did not prevent the book from becoming a world classic. The author of the story is French writer, poet and professional pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery. This allegorical story is the most famous work of the author. It was first published in 1943 (April 6) in New York. It is interesting that the drawings in the book were made by the author himself and became no less famous than the book itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exupery(French Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint-Exup?ry; June 29, 1900, Lyon, France - July 31, 1944) - a famous French writer, poet and professional pilot.

To a summary of the story

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 another profession: he grew up and became a pilot, but as before, he 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.

This 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 needed for boring adults who love numbers.

The whole planet was the size of a house, and the Little Prince had to take care of her: every day to clean three volcanoes - two active and one extinct, and also weed out baobab sprouts. The pilot did not immediately understand the danger baobabs pose, 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: he wanted to have subjects so much that he offered the Little Prince to become a minister, and the kid thought that adults were a very strange people. On the second planet lived an ambitious on third- drunkard on the fourth- a business man fifth- 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!

A geographer lived on the sixth planet. 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.

Earth was with food- 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 fixed 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.

The Little Prince is childhood, but at the same time a profound work. Antoine de Saint-Exupery placed in a light and small fairy tale a reflection of the real adult world with its advantages and disadvantages. In places it is satire, myth, fantasy and a tragic story. Therefore, a multifaceted book is liked by both small and large readers.

"The Little Prince" was born during the Great patriotic war. It all started with the drawings of Exupery, in which he portrayed the same “little prince”.

Exupery, being a military pilot, once got into a plane crash, it happened in 1935 in the Libyan desert. Opening old wounds, memories of the catastrophe and news of the outbreak of the world war inspired the writer to create the work. He thought about the fact that each of us is responsible for the place where he lives, whether it is a small apartment or a whole planet. And the struggle casts doubt on this responsibility, because it was during that fierce battle of many countries that the deadly nuclear weapon. Alas, many people did not give a damn about their home, since they allowed wars to bring humanity to such extreme measures.

The work was created in 1942 in the USA, a year later it became available to the reader. The Little Prince became the final creation of the author and brought him worldwide fame. The author dedicated his book to a friend (Leon Werth), moreover, to the boy that his friend once was. It is worth noting that Leon, who was a writer and critic, being a Jew, suffered from persecution during the development of Nazism. He also had to leave his planet, but not of his own free will.

Genre, direction

Exupery talked about the meaning of life, and in this he was helped by the parable genre, which is characterized by a pronounced morality in the finale, an instructive tone of the story. A fairy tale as a parable is the most common intersection of genres. hallmark fairy tales can be called that it has a fantastic and simple plot, but at the same time it is instructive, helps young readers to form moral qualities and adults to think about their views and behavior. Fairy tale - reflection real life, but reality is presented to the reader through fiction, no matter how paradoxical it may sound. The genre originality of the work suggests that The Little Prince is a philosophical fairy tale-parable.

The work can also be attributed to a fantastic story.

The meaning of the name

The Little Prince is a story about a traveler who travels throughout the universe. He does not just travel, but is in search of the meaning of life, the essence of love and the secret of friendship. He learns not only the world around him, but also himself, and self-knowledge is his main goal. It is still growing, developing and symbolizes an immaculate and tender childhood. Therefore, the author called him "small".

Why a prince? He is alone on his planet, it all belongs to him. He is very responsible in his role as a master and, despite his modest age, has already learned how to care for her. Such behavior suggests that we have a noble boy in front of us, managing his property, but what should he be called? Prince, because he is endowed with power and wisdom.

essence

The plot originates in the Sahara Desert. The pilot of the plane, having made an emergency landing, meets the same Little Prince who arrived on Earth from another planet. The boy told his new acquaintance about his journey, about the planets he had visited, about his former life, about the rose that was his faithful friend. The little prince loved his rose so much that he was ready to give his life for it. The boy was dear to his house, he liked to watch the sunsets, it’s good that on his planet they could be seen several times a day, and for this the Little Prince only needed to move a chair.

One day, the boy felt unhappy and decided to go in search of adventure. Rosa was proud and rarely bestowed her warmth on her patron, so she did not hold him back. During his journey, the Little Prince met: The Ruler, who is confident in his absolute power over the stars, the Ambitious, for whom the main thing is to be admired, the Drunkard, who drinks out of guilt for alcohol abuse, no matter how paradoxical it may sound. The boy even met business man whose main occupation is counting the stars. The little prince encountered the Lantern, who was lighting and extinguishing the lantern on his planet every minute. He also met the Geographer, who in his entire life had never seen anything but his planet. The last location of the traveler was the planet Earth, where he found a true friend. All major events are described by us in the summary of the book for the reader's diary.

Main characters and their characteristics

1. A little prince- the image is partially autobiographical, although it is very difficult to imagine that an adult pilot was once a little dreamer. Main character- a little boy, but at the same time, he very often turns out to be smarter than adults who "love numbers very much." Exupery endowed his hero with seemingly incompatible qualities: spontaneity and reliability. He is kind and loves his Rose very much, which remained on his planet. At the same time, he is still growing and does not know many things. For example, he learned friendship only on planet Earth, and he realized his love only after separation.
2. Rose. The prototype of Rosa is the author's wife, Consuelo, a hot-tempered Latin American. The rose was a special flower, the little prince would have recognized it among thousands of other roses, all other flowers were “empty” for him. The rose was fragile and vulnerable, so the boy covered it with a glass cap. But the character of this lady was explosive and capricious: she imperiously addressed the interlocutor and often insisted on something of her own.

To love is not to look at each other, it means to look in the same direction.

A person must protect his home, and not tear it apart with wars into bloody, lifeless parts. This idea was especially relevant then, during the days of the Second World War. The little prince cleaned up his planet every day to keep the baobabs from rampant. If the world had been able to unite in time and wipe out the National Socialist movement led by Hitler, then the bloodshed could have been prevented. For those who love the world should have taken care of it, and not locked themselves in their little planets, thinking that the storm would pass by. Because of this disunity and irresponsibility of governments and peoples, millions of people have suffered, and the writer calls, finally, to learn to faithfully and responsibly love the harmony that only friendship provides.

What does it teach?

The story of the Little Prince is surprisingly heartfelt and instructive. The creation of Exupery tells about how important it is to have true friend nearby and how important it is to be responsible for those whom you have “tamed”. The fairy tale teaches to love, be friends, warns against loneliness. In addition, you should not lock yourself in your small territory, fencing off the whole world around. You need to get out of your comfort zone, learn new things, look for yourself.

Exupery also urges the reader to listen not only to his mind in making decisions, but also to his heart, because you cannot see the main thing with your eyes.

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