The Little Prince Summary

The Little Prince is a slim book containing 98 pages, published by Harcourt in 1943. The book was originally produced in French and then translated into English. Antoine de Saint Exupery is the author of this masterpiece and was also a pilot.

It is a beautiful, honest story about sadness, love, loneliness, and friendship. The Little Prince is a tiny little boy have descended from a small planet, to be precise, an asteroid who journeys through the universe and planet in the pursuit of knowledge. In his journey, he explored the unexpected nature of the adults.

The tale starts on Earth with the speaker. The speaker is a pilot who has experienced a crash and is now stranded in the Sahara Desert. The pilot is trying hard to repair the wrecked plane. On a lucky day, a tiny boy in odd attire comes up from nowhere and requests that the pilot draw him a sheep. The pilot abides by the unusual request that gives him more to discover about the Little Prince. Later what unfolded was a sensational story that someone deemed joyful and sad.

Summary

The story's main character demonstrated himself as an individual who recognized at an early age that young people lack understanding and imagination. The protagonist, a pilot, has crashed landed in a desert, where he meets with a young and asks for a drawing of a ship. The individual wholeheartedly called him a prince and followed the order. He speculated that the boy had come from a different planet and assumed it to be asteroid B-612. In the upcoming days, the little Prince disclosed his details about life with the protagonist. The Prince resides on a tiny asteroid planet, hardly larger than a house. He devotes most of his time to uprooting baobab seedlings so that it does not cover the whole tiny planet. After some time, he developed feelings for the rose that has grown on the planet despite her vanity and high expectations. However, his request becomes overwhelming for the Prince, causing him to leave.

During his tour, the protagonist tells us that the little princes passed through neighboring asteroids and witnessed strange, narrow-minded people in the grown-up globe. The Little Prince meets a king, a vain man, a drunkard, a businessman, a lamplighter, and a geographer on his first visit to the first six planets. All these six individuals with different occupations spend their time living alone and are mostly devoted to their chosen profession. This scene created amusement and perturbed the Little Prince. He found difficulty in comprehending the requirement to order people to be around to be appreciated and to hold everything. The lamplighter is the exception whose faithfulness he appreciated, and the little one did not think much about the adult he visited. Although, he gained new insight from the geographer that flower does not last forever. Therefore, he began to miss the rose he had left behind.

On Earth, the Prince encounters a snake who tells him he can return to his home and a flower, saying that people are deficient in roots. He goes across the rose garden and feels disappointed that his admirable rose is not unique in the globe as it has been said. A Fox then says that if he tames the fox, i.e., connects ties with the fox -then it will be unique and a source of joy to each other.

The protagonist and little Prince have stayed for 8 days in the desert and run out of water. Then two of them traveled in pursuit of a well; unbelievably, they found one, also. The Little Prince told the narrator that he wished to return that night to his planet. The flowers and stars will be purposeful for the narrator because his acquaintance will stay on one of them. Going back to his planet would necessitate the venomous snake to bite him. The story continues six years later. The narrator claims that the body of the Prince is missing in the morning. So, he could assume that the Prince had returned to his planet. He finishes by imploring the reader to return to him if they ever see the little Prince.

Adaptations

The Little Prince made an enduring appeal to the audience that transpired into numerous adaptations around the globe that covered operas, ballets, theatre productions, radio plays, and films. Some popular movies includedStanley Donen's 1974 musical presenting Bob Fosse and Gene Wilder. Animation films having voice work of Jeff Bridges and Rachel McAdams came in 2015. It has inspired the making of the French Tv series, the novel that launched from 2010-2017. National Ballet of Canada played its adaptation in 2016. Andrew Lloyd Webber, son of famed British theatrical producer and composer and in addition to Nicholas Lloyd Webber, Cocreator made a debut in the stage musical The Little Prince in 2011.

About the Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• Born: 29 June 1900
• Place of Birth: Lyon, France
• Died: 31 July 1944

His full name was Antoine- Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery was born on 29 June 1900 in Lyon, France. He was a French Aviator, and his writing methods were unique because it was the testimony of a warrior and pilot who observed the danger and adventure from the eyes of the novelist. His fable Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) has become a modern classic.

He came from an underprivileged aristocratic society. He was a poor student and did not clear the entrance exam to the Ecole Navale and read architecture for months at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He was recruited into the French Air Force and later became a military pilot. He joined the Compagnie Latecoere in 1926 and assisted in developing airmail routes over northwest Africa, South America, and the South Atlantic. He was a test pilot in the 1930s and a publicity attache for Air France.