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The Narrator. The narrator of The Little Prince is an adult in years, but he explains that he was rejuvenated six years earlier after he crashed his plane in the desert. He was an imaginative child whose first drawing was a cryptic interpretation of a boa constrictor that had swallowed an elephant. Eventually, he abandoned art for the grown-up ...
- The Rose
The Narrator The Rose The Fox ... Much has been written...
- The Fox
The Narrator The Rose The Fox ... Yet when he begs the...
- The Snake
The grown-ups on the various planets are too narrow-minded...
- The Little Prince
The title character of The Little Prince is a pure and...
- Themes
The Dangers of Narrow-Mindedness. The Little Prince exposes...
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- Chapters Xiii–Xv
The little prince visits a fourth planet, which is occupied...
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The narrator obliges, and the two become friends. The pilot...
- The Rose
The Pilot/Narrator. The narrator of the story, the pilot crashes in the middle of the Sahara desert when his engine fails. The pilot is a grownup, but one who has always been an explorer and is sympathetic to the values and perspectives of children, a trait that grows even more pronounced as he becomes close with the little prince.
Analysis: Chapters 1–3. By beginning his story with a discussion of his childhood drawings, the narrator introduces the idea that perception of an item varies from person to person. The narrator intends for people to see his drawing as a boa constrictor eating an elephant, but most adults can’t see the hidden elephant and think the drawing ...
The Narrator Quotes. In the moonlight I looked at his pale forehead, his closed eyes, his locks of hair that trembled in the wind, and I said to myself: "What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible.”. One of the most crucial lessons in The Little Prince is that the essential things in life are invisible to the eye.
- The Pilot/Narrator. The narrator of the story, the pilot crashes in the middle of the Sahara desert when his engine fails. The pilot is a grownup, but one who has always been an explorer and is sympathetic… read analysis of The Pilot/Narrator.
- The Little Prince. The title character of the story, the little prince ventures to other planets in the universe after discovering that the rose he loves has lied to him.
- The Fox. The little prince's meeting with the fox is the climax of the story—it's the moment when the little prince realizes why his rose is so important to him.
- The Snake. The snake speaks in riddles, and he meets the little prince at the beginning and the end of his journey on Earth. The snake possesses a deadly poison that he promises will send the prince… read analysis of The Snake.
Analysis. The narrator, a pilot, discusses his childhood attempts at drawing a boa constrictor eating an elephant. First, he draws the image from the outside, and all the grownups believe it's a hat—so the narrator attempts to draw the boa constrictor from the inside, and this time the grownups advise him to quit drawing boa constrictors and ...
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Chapter I. The narrator recalls that when he was a child, he saw a picture in a book called True Stories. In it a boa constrictor was swallowing a beast and there was a description of this process. The narrator made his first drawing with colored pencils of a snake with a large bulge in it, but was bothered that adults asked if it was a hat.
