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Summary of the book The Little PrinceTO LEON WERTH
I apologize to the children for having dedicated this book to an older person. But I have
another excuse: this old person is able to understand everything, even children's
books. If all these reasons were not enough, then I want to dedicate this book to the
child that this elderly person was long ago.
when i was a kid
I
My drawing number 1 was like this:
I showed my artwork to older people and asked them if my drawing scared them.
My drawing did not represent a hat. I then drew the inside of the boa snake so that
older people could understand. My drawing number 2 was like this:
Older people advised me to abandon drawing boas, whether open or closed, and put
more interest in geography, history, calculus, and grammar. Older people can never
understand something by themselves and it is very boring for children to have to give
them explanations over and over again.
I lived a lot with elderly people and I have known them very closely; but this has not
greatly improved my opinion of them.
When I have met someone who seemed a bit lucid to me, I have subjected him to the
experience of my number 1 drawing that I have always kept.
II
I lived like this, alone, with no one to really talk to, until six years ago when I had a
breakdown in the Sahara desert.
So imagine my surprise when I was woken up at dawn by a strange little voice that
said:
,-Paint me a lamb!
Older people discouraged me from my painting career at the age of six and I had
learned to draw nothing but closed boas and open boas.
It must not be forgotten that I was about a thousand miles from the nearest inhabited
place. And now, the little boy didn't seem lost to me, nor dead from fatigue, hunger,
thirst or fear. He did not at all have the appearance of a child lost in the desert, a
thousand miles from the nearest inhabited place.
-Please… paint me a lamb!
As absurd as that seemed to me, a thousand miles away from any inhabited place and
in danger of death, I took from my pocket a sheet of paper and a fountain pen. I
remembered that I had studied geography, history, calculus, and grammar in
particular, and I told the little boy (already a little grumpy) that I didn't know how to
draw.
- It doesn't matter - he replied-, paint me a lamb!
Since I had never drawn a lamb before, I redid for him one of the only two drawings I
was capable of: the closed boa snake.
The snake is very dangerous and the elephant takes up a lot of room.
My friend smiled sweetly, indulgently.
This is not a lamb, it is a ram. It has Horns… I redid my drawing again: it was rejected
just like the previous ones.
-East it is too old. Qi want a lamb that live muchweather.
,Out of patience and wanting to start disassembling the engine, I quickly scribbled
down this drawing, showed it to him, and added:
To my great surprise the face of my young judge lit up:
Do you think a lot of grass for this lamb is needed?
-Why?
-Because in my land everything is so small... He leaned towards the drawing and
exclaimed:
III
The little prince, who asked me many questions, never seemed to hear mine. Thus,
when he first distinguished my plane (I will not draw my plane, because it is too
complicated a drawing for me) he asked me:
It's a plane, my plane.
Have you fallen from the sky?
And the little prince gave a funny laugh that irritated me a lot.
-So you also come from heaven?
-Do you come, then, from another planet?
But he didn't answer me; she slowly shook her head looking carefully at my plane.
-It's true, that, on top of that, you can't come from very far...
, Then, taking my lamb out of his pocket, he plunged into contemplation of his treasure.
Where do you want to take my lamb?
After meditating silently, he replied:
-The good thing about the box you gave me is that at night it will serve as a home. And
if you are good I will also give you a rope and a stake to tie it during the day.
This proposition seemed to shock the little prince.
What a weird idea! -If you don't tie him up, he'll go who knows where and get lost...
My friend gave a new laugh.
-And where do you want me to go? Right way ahead…
IV
He knew very well that apart from the great planets like Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, to
which they have been given names, there are hundreds of others so small that it is
difficult to distinguish them even with the help of a telescope. When an astronomer
discovers one of these planets, he gives it a number by name.
I have strong reasons to believe that the planet from which the little prince came was
the asteroid B 612. This asteroid has been seen only once with the telescope in 1909,
by a Turkish astronomer.
Older people are like that. Fortunately for the reputation of the asteroid B 612, a
Turkish dictator imposed on his people, under penalty of death, the European dress.
If I have told you about all these details about asteroid B 612 and I have even
entrusted you with its number, it is out of consideration for the elderly. Grown-ups like
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