It’s very difficult to summarize, “The Little Prince” is a favorite tale of many people on our planet. Since its publication in 1943, it has been translated into 180 languages. Since the work is allegorical, every word is important in it. The author addresses not so much the children as the child in every reader.
The tale "The Little Prince" is dedicated to the boy from whom the author’s best friend Leon Werth grew up.
Summary. The Little Prince, Chapter 1 to Chapter 9
The six-year-old hero was fond of books about animals and was impressed by the picture of a boa constrictor swallowing a predator. Inspired, he drew his drawing number one, which the adults took for the image of the hat, although it was a boa constrictor swallowing an elephant. I had to portray a boa constrictor with an elephant inside in a section specially for dull adults. But the adults didn’t like it anyway, they advised paying more attention to geography and other lessons. The hero ceased to believe in himself and was tired of talking to adults. Instead of an artist, he became a pilot, and geography came in handy.
Meeting, as it seemed to him, understanding adults, he tested them with the help of drawing number one, but again they all took the boa for a hat, which completely disappointed the hero.
6 years ago he had to make an emergency landing in the Sahara desert, where there was not a soul in the circumference of thousands of miles. But in the morning a little man woke him up and asked to draw a lamb. In the number one figure, he instantly recognized the boa constrictor, but rejected the rams, suddenly rejoicing at the box with holes, which supposedly contains the lamb he needs.
The pilot learns that the Little Prince came to Earth from his tiny asteroid B-612, where he left three volcanoes and his beloved rose, which he quarreled with the day before.
Summary. The Little Prince, Chapter 10-17
His journey began with neighboring asteroids. On the first, he met the king without citizens, on the second with an ambitious man without admirers, on the third with a man drinking from shame caused by his own drunkenness. On the fourth planet, a business man thoughtlessly counted the stars. On the fifth lived a lantern, lighting and extinguishing his lantern every minute, because day and night on his planet began to change each other faster. This seemed to the Little Prince the most logical and not so selfish in contrast to the actions of others he met adults. The geographer, who lives on the sixth planet, was waiting for travelers who, as he thought, would bring him information about the world. He did not even know anything about his own planet, but advised him to visit Earth. So the boy ended up in the Sahara desert.
Summary. The Little Prince, Chapter 11 to Chapter 27
First, the little wanderer met a snake, which promised to help him return to his planet as soon as he wanted. Then he saw a garden full of exactly the same roses, although his favorite flower convinced that there was only one in the world.
He met on the way the Fox, who refused to play until the Little Prince makes it tame. The fox explained that after the taming ritual they would become special for each other, then the boy guessed that the rose had apparently tamed it. The fox confirmed this, since the prince is ready to give his whole soul to her, and added that you can see with your heart what you cannot see with your eyes. And now that he is forever responsible for those who are tamed by him.
But soon the time comes for the prince to return home. Finally, bursting like a bell, he said that now, looking at the stars, the pilot will hear their laughter, because the Little Prince lives and laughs on one of them.
At the feet of the boy, a small yellow snake flashed with lightning. Slowly and silently he began to fall on the sand ...
The next morning the pilot did not find the boy’s body. He fixed the motor and returned. Six years passed, but the hero could not console himself. Of course, he believed that the baby returned home, but, looking at the sky, he heard not only the silver laughter of the stars, but also their crying, depending on whether he was worried about the Little Prince or was happy. Leon Werth appealed to everyone who met the boy to inform and comfort his sorrow.
Saint Exupery, whose "Little Prince" is parsed by readers around the world into quotes, has invested in his creation a deep meaning that does not fit into the scope of the summary. I want to believe that the one who ran his eyes will want to read the whole story.