Summary of The Little Prince by chapters

The story is told by the Aviator, an adult who finds it difficult to understand with his
contemporaries. On a solo flight, his plane crashes and he lands in an emergency
the Sahara desert. This is where his meeting with the Little Prince takes place, a child who
comes from another planet, so small that it only has three volcanoes, dwarf baobabs and a
flower. The Little Prince asks the aviator to draw a lamb for him to take to his world. After
befriending the Aviator, she tells how lonely and melancholic her life was until the arrival of
the Flower, a very beautiful who loves the Little Prince but who finds it difficult to express
himself sincerely. Due to their doubts about the love of the flower, the Little Prince abandons
his asteroid and travels various worlds, inhabited by curious characters such as the king, the
vain, the drinker, the lamplighter and the geographer.
He finally arrives on Earth, where he meets the snake and the fox, with whom he establishes
a very special bond and from who learns that "it only looks good with the heart, the essential
thing is invisible to the eyes ”. At last, the Little Prince returns to the Sahara desert, the place
where he descended to Earth, to befriend the Aviator and tell him about his adventures.
When the Aviator achieves repair his plane, the Little Prince is bitten by the snake, because
this is the only way he has to return to his planet, to care for his flower. The Aviator
discovers that while the Little Prince has managed to take the drawing of the lamb with him,
he has not taken a muzzle to tie it. So who is left with the question of whether or not the
lamb can eat the flower. Finally, invoke those who read the book to warn you in case the
Little Prince returns to Earth.
Characters
The Aviator: An adult who is not comfortable with his contemporaries, and prefers to tour the
world on his plane, thus moving away from contact with older people.
The Little Prince: The only inhabitant of a small asteroid, whose greatest pleasure is
watch the sunsets, take care of your baobab tree and clean the craters of two tiny
volcanoes. Its routine existence is interrupted with the arrival and flowering of the Flower,
which she comes to love him, but she does not initially understand.
La Flor: A rose of great beauty and charming personality, although quite proud and
somewhat
selfish, he wants the Little Prince to dedicate himself only to her.
The King: Character desirous of power, no matter what or who. Define your relationship with
people and with things like power relationships, in which he remains at the top,
although the only visible result is total solitude.
The Vain: Character hungry for recognition and cheers, even when these are
empty. He does not care if the admiration that the other profess him is sincere or not, the
important thing
for him it is to hear the applause and the praises, they come from where they come. The
only result is that,
after the sound of the last applause, the vain is left alone and so hungry for admiration
as at the beginning.
The drinker: This character drinks to forget that he is ashamed to drink. Does it symbolize
being human given to vice, for having given up being the owner of himself, perhaps out of
fear.
The businessman: Character dedicated to doing addition, subtraction and calculations on the
stars,
thus obtaining an economic benefit, although neglecting their health and emotional life.
The Lamplighter: Is dedicated to lighting the stars. Although it fulfills a useful function for
others, its acts lack reflection, because they are carried out by the pure duty to fulfill them.
He just does a duty, and although it is apparently good or useful, their actions are irrelevant,
even to the same.
The Geographer: A scholar who has dedicated his existence to knowledge, regardless of its
application practice. Perhaps it represents the radical technolatrist, the one who has deified
science and technique, without reflecting that knowledge is not an end in itself, but a means
to achieve other truly human goals.
The fox: Contradictory animal, is a character as much or more interesting than the Little
Prince. Appears as a carefree and perhaps selfish being, but aware of his ability to love. By
knowing to the Little Prince, he decides to leave his primitive or wild (and lonely) nature to
become a friend of the Little Prince; or to use his own terms, he allows himself to be “tamed”.
He is the author of the memorable phrase "Only looks good with the heart, the essential is
invisible to the eyes."
The snake: The most ambiguous character in history. He is the only one who can make the
Little prince return to his world, but at the cost of a terrible sacrifice. His acts seem to be
more beyond good and evil, and it is expressed in an enigmatic way.
The guard: Character whose job is to regulate the transport of passengers on trains.
The merchant: He is a seller of pills to suppress thirst, which he offers as something useful,
because they supposedly save the time that is wasted in the act of drinking.
Summary by chapters
I
The story begins with the memories of the Aviator, a character from whose point of view the
action. It is a character that since childhood has felt that it does not fit with the formal world
and pragmatic that adults have created. Their points of view are different: where he saw a
elephant inside a snake, the others saw a hat.
II
As an adult, the Aviator prefers to take long flights by plane rather than the company of his
contemporaries. During one of these flights, his plane breaks down and he is forced to
descend into the Sahara desert, where you meet the Little Prince.
The Little Prince is an eight-year-old boy, blond and dressed in his own clothes
rank. As soon as he befriends the Aviator, he asks him to paint a lamb for him. Doubting his
qualities as a draftsman, the Aviator draws the elephant inside the snake of his childhood,
which
He is recognized by the Little Prince, who insists that he draw a picture of a lamb. After
some
In vain, the Aviator draws a box with holes, indicating to the Little Prince that the lamb is
found inside. The Little Prince approves the drawing and stays with him.
III
During the time it takes the Aviator to repair his plane, he receives visits from the Little
Prince, who reveals that it comes from another planet, which he describes as very small
IV
The Little Prince's planet is identified by the Aviator as asteroid B 612. It specifies that this
data is aimed at older people, who understand things from the figures. With the
mentioning the number of the asteroid, the Aviator considers that it complies with
demonstrating the truth of its existence.
V
The Little Prince tells the Aviator that baobabs grow on his planet, a tree that on Earth
reaches enormous proportions, but which on the planet of the Little Prince are nothing but
mere shrubbery. The Little Prince thus reveals what he needs the lamb for: to eat the leaves
of the baobabs and these do not end your planet.
SAW
The Aviator remembers other aspects of the Little Prince's personality, among them, his
solitude, his melancholy and his love of watching sunsets, especially when he feels sad.
VII
The Little Prince expresses his concern about what lambs eat. Above all, you want
to know if besides bushes, they can eat flowers. The Aviator responds with annoyance at
these questions, given that he is busy with the task of repairing his plane. The Little Prince
then reproaches him for being like older people, for his lack of interest in the fate of flowers
and their relationship with lambs. The Little Prince's anger culminates in tears.
VIII
The Little Prince reveals to the Aviator that there was a very special flower on his planet,
very beautiful but at the same time vain and proud. The flower awakens the naive love of the
Little Prince, but at the same time, confuses it. The Little Prince's love for the flower is full of
doubts.
IX
The Little Prince decides to leave his planet, and decides to take advantage of the flight of a
flock of birds to leave your world. Before leaving, clean the volcanoes, prune the baobabs
and say goodbye to the flower, which He tells her that he loves him and apologizes for not
making himself understood, while he rebukes the Little prince have been as dumb as she is.
The flower hurries the Little Prince to leave without seeing it cry.
X
The Little Prince begins a journey through other asteroids. The first one who visits is
inhabited by a king, who appears to have great power but at the same time shows lack of
subjects to exercise it. He asks the Little Prince to stay with him, but the Little Prince decides
to continue his travel.
XI
The second planet that the Little Prince visits was inhabited by a vain, whose only desire is
to be cheered and admired. The Little Prince, before leaving him, asks him what is the use of
him admire, without getting an answer.
XII
The next planet visited by the Little Prince was inhabited by a drinker, a drunk who drinks to
forget that he is ashamed to drink, which leaves the Little Prince perplexed.
XIII
The Little Prince then visits a planet inhabited by a businessman, who traffics in the
stars: he counts them, registers them, in short, he owns them. The Little Prince rebukes him
that this is not usefulness for the stars, leaving the businessman bewildered.
XIV
The next planet was inhabited by a lamplighter and his lantern, which turned on and off fast,
since their planet was spinning very fast. The Little Prince leaves you with a certain regret,
because he is sympathetic to this man who does his duty without questioning it, and at the
same time, he regrets missing the successive sunsets that occurred in that world.
XV
The sixth planet was inhabited by a geographer, surrounded by maps and books. Confuse
the Little prince with an explorer, and asks for news and details of his world. When talking
about the flower, the geographer informs him that the flowers are ephemeral, that is, they
are destined to disappear, which arouses remorse in the Little Prince, for leaving her alone.
XVI
The Little Prince finally arrives on Earth, a planet from which its large number of inhabitants
and the synchronized action of the lanterns around the world, busy turning the lights on and
off lanterns from all continents.
XVII
Some clarifications are made about the number of inhabitants of the Earth, which can
actually fit all on one island. The Little Prince wonders about people, given that he has fallen
in Africa, where he meets a serpent who speaks in riddles, clarifying to the Little Prince that
despite his Appearance, it is more powerful than a king's finger and can help you return to
your planet.
XVIII
The Little Prince finds a solitary flower, to which he asks for men. The flower, in all its life, he
has not seen more than six or seven, and considers that men live annoyed for not having
estate.
XIX
The Little Prince climbs a great mountain, and discovers the echo, which leads him to reflect
on the lack of originality of men.
XX
The Little Prince finally comes to a path, next to a garden full of roses. Then discover that
the flower that he left on his planet was not a single flower, but one of the many roses that
exist. This very sad.
XXI
At last, he meets a fox, who is also in search of a friend, a being whom "Tame", that is,
someone with whom to form a bond of friendship. They both become Friends, and in this
process, the Little Prince will discover what really made his flower special. The fox and the
Little Prince separate, after the fox reveals his secret: he only looks good with his heart, the
essential is invisible to the eye.
XXII
Following his path, the Little Prince meets a guard, who explains his work, consisting of
grouping passengers and boarding them on trains. The ranger ignores the reasons they get
people to move from one place to another so quickly.
XXIII
The Little Prince meets a merchant, a seller of thirst-preventing pills. This provides extra time
that, from the Little Prince's point of view, could well be spent on go to a drinking fountain.
XXIV
The Aviator, who has been unable to repair his plane, tells the Little Prince that if they don't
get water, they will die of thirst. The Little Prince replies that it is good to have had a friend,
even if he is going to die. They both start looking for a well. The Little Prince falls asleep
thinking about his flower, while the Aviator decides to carry him in his arms, until they
manage to find a well.
XXV
The Little Prince and the Aviator satisfy their thirst, while talking about how strange the
mens. The Little Prince laughs when he sees the drawings the Aviator has made, and
remembers that he is about to one year after his arrival on Earth. The Aviator leaves the
Little Prince, because he must repair his airplane.
XXVI
The next day, the Aviator returns with the Little Prince, who is very sad due to the passage
it will give. It reminds the Aviator that he must look at the stars, because he will live in one of
them, with its flower. He also tells her that he will be able to hear her laugh in all the stars.
The Aviator leaves the Little prince on the ground, to be bitten by the snake and die instantly.
XXVII
Over the years, the Aviator discovers that the Little Prince has forgotten a muzzle drawn for
the lamb, so that it is possible that in some oversight the lamb may release and eat the
flower. The Aviator hopes to see the Little Prince again, asking the reader to advise him if
ever return to Earth.