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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 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 a week of water left. 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. It gradually became clear 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 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 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 very strange people. On the second planet lived an ambitious man, on the third - a drunkard, on the fourth - business man, 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.

Having made an emergency landing due to a breakdown in the plane, the pilot unexpectedly meets a charming, curious baby, so sensitive and humane that the author takes him for a prince who flew in from outer space. Like all children who know the world, he asks questions in search of answers, talks about his distant homeland, travels to other planets and his observations. An adult and a child, equally suffering from loneliness and experiencing spiritual kinship, become true friends who understand each other without words.

“The Little Prince” is a parable that you cannot see the most beautiful things in life with your eyes, you must see and hear with your heart, otherwise, among many people, a person is lonely and unhappy. He dreams of happiness, but is not ready to "attach", because he has forgotten how to feel, love and cry. He does not have time for friendship, as he is busy with empty chores, which he considers vital. A naive child who has not yet lost his humanity is incomprehensible to cynical and practical adults.

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The little prince lived for himself on his planet, without thinking anything to himself, he lived calmly and joyfully. This boy was true prince, since only such high rank you can give to someone who knows how to take care of someone, and this is very important in our world, which does not know how to love, and does not know how to take proper care. That is why there are so many in the world - broken hearts, so many cold looks that seem impossible to melt. But the little prince still tried to do it, and why not? After all, he did not live alone on this lonely planet, so small, almost the same as himself.

This planet was small size, but the prince himself was still placed on it, and another sweet person - a rose. This flower was unusually beautiful, because the blood-red color always attracts attention. It was not for nothing that the rose was called that, it fully supported its image. In addition to her beauty, she also had sharp spikes that could often injure inadvertently. But since the rose was beautiful in appearance, its sharp thorns could often be overlooked. At the very least, the little prince tried not to notice her sharp thorns, since often her actions, or her words, could hurt him, but he simply did not notice it.

He cared for her no matter what. And he - loved her, like she, however, him, although she never spoke about it. After all, the rose was also unusually proud, beautiful, and incredibly cold. Once, with her own words, she simply forced the little prince to leave, leaving her alone. The little prince resigned himself to fate, and left her, covering her with a glass case to protect her from the weeds and the cold. And so he left sad and sad from everything. And the rose also grieved secretly inside itself, but nothing could be changed.

And so the prince began to travel, he saw a lot of different planets, where he could learn someone else's wisdom and find his own. But still, the little prince could not understand why the world is so strange, and why are adults so strange too? He was told that he was small, stupid and simply inexperienced in this life. He was advised a lot, ordered, and even tried to seduce him with something. But the little prince always turned out to be wiser than all these adults. And he didn't want to grow up.

Having seen a lot during this time, he realized that being an adult means becoming stupid, not knowing fantasies, dreams and just seeing the beauty around. For him, this meant callousness, the loss of childhood forever, and therefore of illusions and beauty, coldness and misunderstanding of others.

Our life is our own, no one has a similar, or the same as others. So all people, creatures on earth are completely individual.

Detailed brief retelling of the story The Little Prince Exupery

When the author was 6 years old, he was impressed by what he read and drew a boa constrictor that swallowed an elephant whole. His parents decided that it was just a badly drawn hat and advised their son not to waste time, but to take up more serious subjects. Losing faith in his artistic ability, he stopped painting and learned to fly an airplane. They were pleased with his sanity, but he had no one to talk to heart to heart, and he suffered from loneliness until the Little Prince appeared.

The only inhabitant of a tiny asteroid lost in space, he was desperately looking for a companion, so he asked the pilot to draw him a lamb. With the power of his imagination and desire, he was able to revive drawings. He visited many different planets and got to know their inhabitants: a king who has no power and therefore gives only very modest orders; ambitious, greedy for praise; a drunkard who drinks because he is ashamed to drink; the businessman who counts what he does not own, and the geographer who never leaves his office.

Like the narrator, the Little Prince comes to the conclusion that "adult people are very strange", "seem to themselves as majestic as baobabs", but they are engaged in meaningless things, devoid of imagination and roots, they move from place to place and do not know what they want find. They do not know peace, although they guess that "it is good where they are not." They grow thousands of roses in one garden, although true value can be found in one flower, and thirst is satisfied with one sip. From the Snake, he learns that people are lonely, and the Fox teaches him patience, without which it is impossible to tame or love anyone.

People don't have friends, the animal explains, because they're too busy to be friends. They are used to everything ready, but there are no shops where you can buy a devoted friend. Gradually, the baby begins to miss the house, where he left the capricious beauty of the rose. She needs care. Despite her feisty disposition, he became attached to her and is now worried about her, because she only has 4 spikes to protect herself. He is kind to his planet, takes care of it, cleaning volcanoes and pulling out weeds. Sadly, he parted ways with his friend.

His return is reminiscent of death by snakebite and anxiety for his further fate, main character goes on an interplanetary ship in search, stopping on the way on different planets. On one of them, he will meet with a dark-skinned boy who continuously rings the bell on his bicycle. It helps him disperse the sadness. He meets a woman who collects tears and turns them into stars. She believes that only the man who is able to cry is true, although she complains that there is too much suffering around. On the constellation of Gemini, he is met by mischievous girls who can hear with their hearts, they know in advance the purpose of the astronaut's wanderings. Along the way, he observes the continuous hunting of a cat for a mouse and a worm that has gnawed its planet to holes so that he himself is in danger of death when he destroys it completely. An unfriendly welcome to the guest is provided by Dragons, who cannot stand strangers, but even they soften at the mention of the prince. Finally, he gets to his destination.

The prince's blue planet is amazing, he created an imaginary world with gardens and flowers, a desert and a camel, a beautiful rose and a lamb, and brought it to life, but he is sad because all this is not real: water without taste, flowers without aroma. Together with the author, he returns to Earth, where the main character tries to show him all the best: the greatness of the mountains, the amazing nature of the island, the salty taste of the ocean. Here the Little Prince finds a girlfriend, Luala, a girl who shares his thoughts.

They visit the Valley of Wonders, walk on water and underground, fly through the air, but these miracles are not genuine and do not like the little traveler. They come across robbers, from whom they miraculously escape. The boy understands that there is beauty on Earth, but it coexists with ugliness, and people can be both good and evil. The astronaut brings him home, but now he will never be alone. Luala flies away with him, her ill-bred but real dog, and the prudent writer took with him a handful of seeds of fragrant plants and cans of tasty water for the improvement of the Blue Planet.

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 still showed his first drawing to those adults who seemed to him more reasonable and understanding 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 needed only 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 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 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!

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.

“We are responsible for those whom we have tamed,” this phrase became famous thanks to Saint-Exupery’s story “The Little Prince”. Just a few words carry a meaning, understanding which you can condemn adults for being such adults ... After reading the story, you can be surprised how many mistakes people sometimes make, trying to be more serious and so quickly forgetting about childhood.

The hero of the story ordinary man, in the soul retained a piece of childhood. He is with early age presents life a little differently than all adults. For him, romance and fabulousness come first, but under the influence of the people around him, the hero has to be just as serious, smart, study various sciences that are not interesting to him.

The story is written on behalf of the author. As the protagonist, Exupery implies himself, and the book describes his thoughts, desires and inner world. In part, the story is connected with the life of the author, but for the most part it affects all adults. Therefore, reading a book is useful not only for children, but also for the older generation, which has long said goodbye to childhood.

The author begins his story with a description of a drawing that he drew at the age of six. Seeing in one book a picture of a boa constrictor swallowing prey, the hero imagines what a snake will look like if he eats an elephant. To convey his thoughts, he draws a boa constrictor with a huge belly, repeating the shape of an elephant, and shows his creation to adults. But parents and just acquaintances, who have long crossed the threshold of childhood, see only a hat in the picture. The boy begins to prove the opposite, and even draws a boa constrictor from the inside. But adults do not appreciate the zeal of the hero and tell him to finish with art.

The hero understands that it is better to become like everyone else than to try to prove to adults what they do not want to believe. Parents force the boy to study geography, history and science, which is much more important in life than drawing. The hero removes the drawing with the boa constrictor and follows the instructions of the adults.

Loneliness of the protagonist
Having become a pilot, the hero does not stop fantasizing, although he has abandoned the dream of becoming an artist. He flies around many places, never getting rid of the feeling of loneliness. The hero has no friends, all adults seem to him too serious and too smart.

Plane crash and meeting a new friend

One day, going on another trip, the hero is faced with a plane breakdown. He has to make an emergency landing in the desert to fix the transport. He has limited time - there is barely enough water for one week, and it seems impossible for him to find a well in the Sahara.

One day, the hero wakes up from a thin voice that asks him to draw a lamb. Opening his eyes, he sees a boy wandering into the desert in an incomprehensible way. Surprised by the appearance of a child, the hero begins to question a new acquaintance, but he only asks to draw a lamb.

The hero, having never acquired the skills of an artist in childhood, draws a boa constrictor that ate an elephant for a boy. But the child says that he does not need an elephant in a boa constrictor, but he needs a lamb. The hero, surprised by the strange request of the boy, draws a lamb. But at first it turns out to be too thin, then not small, but an adult ram. The third drawing also becomes unusable - on it the animal turns out to be old. The hero becomes indignant and even angry with the child, but does not refuse the request. He draws a box and says that the lamb is sitting in it. Suddenly, the boy likes the drawing and asks if he eats a lot of herbs. The hero replies that he drew a very small lamb, so he will not eat much. This is how you meet the Little Prince.

The little prince turns out to be a taciturn child. He is reluctant to talk about himself, only explaining to a new friend that he is from another planet, having a small size. Only after some time the boy calls to talk about himself. It turns out that his planet is the size of a house. And baobabs grow on it, which have to be constantly weeded so that they do not grow and destroy the planet. And he needs a lamb in order to eat baobab sprouts.

One day the boy asks the hero if the lamb can eat a flower with thorns and tells that a rose has remained on his planet. She grew up from a seed, it is not known how it got into his world. The boy took care of the flower and protected it from the wind and insects. But when he was about to go on a journey, the rose got angry and said that she no longer needed his protection and confessed her love to him. The little prince regretted that he decided to leave the flower and decided to definitely return.

The boy told the hero of the story that he travels to various planets. But all the places turned out to be so small that there were practically no inhabitants.

On one asteroid, he was advised to go to Earth, where there are people interesting professions: geographers, historians and archaeologists, and the planet is so big that it cannot be seen completely even from mountain peaks. So the Little Prince is where people live.

On Earth, the boy first meets a snake, which offers its help and says that if he wants to return home, then let him call him. Then he sees a flower that has seen people only a few times in his life. Continuing to wander, the Little Prince meets the Fox, who asks to tame him. The fox waited a long time for a man and hoped that he would be tamed, given protection and care. Upon learning about the rose, the prince's new friend says that the flower is special for him, because he is responsible for it.

When the hero runs out of water, the Little Prince invites him to go in search of a well. On the way, the boy says that he wants to go home, and that he has not been home for a year. The hero becomes sad. He understands that the Little Prince has become his true friend, who understands him.

The heroes of the story find a well and drink water with pleasure. This lets them know that happiness can be found in just one sip of water and a rose to take care of.

The next hero fixed the plane and was ready to go home, but notices that the Little Prince is talking to someone near the ancient wall. He came closer and saw that next to the boy was a yellow poisonous snake. The hero ran up to the Little Prince with a revolver, wanting to shoot the animal. But the boy stopped him. He said that he decided to go home in the evening, and the snake would help him with this. The little prince asked the hero not to come to this place, so as not to see how he returns to his planet. It will look like the boy has died, so it will be hard for the hero of the story. The little prince only says that now the stars will remind them of each other.

Not listening to the Little Prince, the hero comes to the ancient wall. At that moment, the snake bites the boy, and he falls dead on the sand.

The hero returns home, but he is sad to part with such a small but smart boy. Now for him the most interesting entertainment is watching the stars. Six years later, the hero does not stop thinking about whether the lamb he painted has eaten the rose of the Little Prince.

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At the age of 6, the boy read a book about a boa constrictor and drew a snake that swallowed an elephant. Adults laughed at his drawing and advised him to do something worthwhile. And when the boy grew up, he became a pilot. One day, his engine died in the desert, and he was forced to make a landing.

In the morning he was awakened by a thin voice asking him to draw a lamb. The new acquaintance turned out to be quiet boy with golden hair. How he got into the desert was unknown. And he was the only one who could see what the pilot had drawn. Then it turned out that this is the Little Prince, he flew from the asteroid B-612. The planet was tiny, and there were only 3 volcanoes on it. But once a rose seed was brought to the asteroid, from which it grew beautiful flower. The kid fell in love with the rose very much, looked after her, but she was a terribly capricious creature, and the Little Prince, one might say, "ran away" from her.

He began to travel around the planets: the King lived on one, the Ambitious on the other, the Drunkard on the third, the Businessman on the fourth, and the Lamplighter on the fifth ... Everything plunges the Little Prince into amazement: he discovers many human qualities, such as ambition, drunkenness , excessive pride ... When he gets to the sixth planet, where the Geographer lived, he advises the kid to go to Earth.

And on Earth, the Little Prince meets the Fox, who reveals a secret to him: "You are responsible for those whom you tamed ..". The fox taught him to be friends. In the desert, the kid met a snake who said that she could bring him back, and after that the Little Prince met a pilot. At the end, the "pilot" realizes that he himself was tamed ... And the Little Prince goes to his asteroid.