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Crimson-faced gentleman, King, Ambitious, Drunkard, Businessman, Lamplighter, Geographer, Snake
The boy was six years old when he learned from a book how a boa constrictor eats its own victim. He depicted a snake that swallowed an elephant. In the figure, the boa constrictor was depicted outside. But the adults were sure that the hat was painted. Adults were constantly in need of an explanation. For this reason, the boy drew another picture in which he depicted a boa constrictor from the inside. After that, the adults advised the boy to leave this business and engage in other sciences. Thus the boy abandoned his dreams of a career as an artist. He chose a different profession. He became a pilot. He still showed his own drawing. But everyone claimed that in front of them was a drawing of a hat. They didn't know how to talk heart to heart. Therefore, the hero lived alone until he met The little Prince.
Their meeting took place in the Sahara. The plane's engine broke down. The pilot began to repair it. In the morning he woke up from a thin voice. A very small boy with gold-colored hair, who somehow ended up in the desert, asked me to draw a lamb for him. The pilot was amazed and could not refuse. And only this tiny boy saw in his drawing not a hat, but a boa constrictor. Over time, it became known that the Little Prince came from a small planet.
His planet was the size of a house. The little prince was forced to clean three volcanoes daily. Two of them were active, and the third was extinct. The prince also weeded baobab sprouts. At first, the pilot did not understand why baobabs were dangerous. Then he understood and made a drawing to warn the children, which depicted a planet with three bushes not weeded out at the right time. The little prince kept order on his own planet. However, he was sad and lonely. For this reason, he liked to watch the sunset at a time when he became sad. He did this more than once a day, moving his chair after the sun. Everything changed when he saw a flower on his own planet. It was Rose. The prince loved her. However, he considered her capricious, arrogant and cruel. The prince was very young at that time and could not understand that this flower brought insight into his life. He cleaned the volcanoes, removed the baobab sprouts, then said goodbye to Rosa, who only during the farewell confessed that she loved the prince.
He began to travel and visited the neighboring six planets. The king lived on the first. He so dreamed of subjects. Therefore, he suggested that the prince be a minister. The same thought about how strange these adults are. The ambitious man lived on another planet, the third planet belonged to a drunkard, the fourth - to a businessman, the fifth - to a lamplighter. They all seemed very strange to the prince. Only the Prince liked the Lamplighter: he regularly lit the lights in the evening and extinguished the lanterns in the morning, even though his planet had become so small that night and day changed every minute. If it hadn't been so crowded, the prince would have stayed on this planet, as he really wanted to have a friend. And besides, here you could watch the sunset many times a day.
The geographer lived on the last planet. He asked travelers about the places where they were in order to record these stories in books. The prince was going to tell about his own flower, but the geographer explained that he writes only about mountains and oceans, since they exist forever. Flowers are short lived. Only then did it dawn on the prince that Rose would soon die. And he left her alone. However, he was still offended, so he moved on. but all his thoughts were only about the flower.
Now he is on Earth. She was a very difficult planet. It was attended by in large numbers representatives of the owners of the planets he visited, almost two billion. However, only the snake, the fox and the pilot became the prince's friends. The snake promised to help him when he really regrets his own planet. The fox taught him friendship. He explained to the prince that anyone can become a friend. However, we always remain responsible for those we have tamed. And also the fox added that the main thing can be seen only with the heart, and not with the eyes. Therefore, the prince decided to return to Rose. He arrived in the desert, at the place where he landed. Here they met the pilot. The pilot made the prince a drawing of a lamb and a muzzle for him. And earlier he believed that he could only draw boas. The prince radiated happiness, while the pilot became sad. Then the prince found a snake, which fulfilled the promise and helped him. She returned the prince to the stars. The kid told the pilot that it would only look like death at first glance. He asked the pilot to remember him when he looked into the sky.
The pilot repaired the engine. The comrades were glad that he returned. Six years have passed since that time. Gradually the pilot calmed down. He liked to look at the night sky and the stars. He was worried about not drawing the lamb strap. Therefore, he could eat Rosa. And if Rosa died, then nothing will be the same as before. However, adults will never understand the importance of this moment.
At the age of six, the boy read about how a boa constrictor swallows its prey, and drew a snake that swallowed an elephant. It was a drawing of a boa constrictor on the outside, but the adults claimed that it was a hat. Adults always need to explain everything, so the boy made another drawing - a boa constrictor from the inside. Then the adults advised the boy to give up this nonsense - according to them, he should have done more geography, history, arithmetic and right-pi-sa-ing. So the boy abandoned a brilliant career as an artist. He had to choose another profession: he grew up and became a pilot, but as before, he showed his first drawing to those adults who seemed to him more reasonable and understandable than the rest, and everyone answered that it was a hat. It was impossible to talk heart to heart with them - about boas, jungles and stars. And the pilot lived alone until he met the Little Prince.
It happened in the Sahara. Something broke in the plane's engine: the pilot had to fix it or die, because there was only water left for a week. At dawn, the pilot was awakened by a thin voice - a tiny baby with golden hair, who knows how to get into the desert, asked to draw a lamb for him. The astonished pilot did not dare to refuse, especially since his new friend turned out to be the only one who managed to see in the first drawing a boa constrictor that had swallowed an elephant. Gradually it turned out that the Little Prince came from a planet called "asteroid B-612" - of course, the number is needed only for boring adults who love numbers.
The whole planet was the size of a house, and the Little Prince had to take care of it: every day, clean three volcanoes - two active and one extinct, and also fall baobab sprouts . The pilot did not immediately understand what danger the baobabs posed, but then he guessed and, in order to warn all the children, he drew the planet where the lazy man lived, who did not weed out three bushes in time. But the Little Prince always put his planet in order. But his life was sad and lonely, so he was very fond of watching the sunset - especially when he was sad. He did this several times a day, simply by moving his chair to follow the sun. Everything changed when he appeared on his planet wonderful flower: it was a beauty with thorns - proud, touchy and simply stuffy. The little prince fell in love with her, but she seemed to him capricious, cruel and arrogant - he was then too young and did not understand how this flower lit up his life. And so the Little Prince cleaned his volcanoes for the last time, tore out the sprouts of baobabs, and then said goodbye to his flower, which only at the moment of parting admitted that he loved him.
He went wandering and visited six neighboring asteroids. The king lived on the first one: he so wanted to have subjects that he suggested that the Little Prince become a minister, and the kid thought that adults were a very strange people. On the second planet lived an ambitious man, on the third - a drunkard, on the fourth - business man, and on the fifth - a lamplighter. All the adults seemed extremely strange to the Little Prince, and only the Lamplighter liked him: this man remained faithful to the agreement to light the lanterns in the evenings and extinguish the lanterns in the mornings, although his planet is so decreased, that day and night I changed every minute. Don't be so small here. The little prince would have stayed with the Lantern, because he really wanted to make friends with someone - besides, on this planet you could admire the sunset one thousand four hundred and forty times a day!
On the sixth planet lived a geographer. And since he was a geographer, he had to ask travelers about the countries where they came from in order to write down their stories in books. The little prince wanted to tell about his flower, but the geographer explained that only mountains and oceans are written in books, because they are eternal and unchanging, and flowers do not live long. Only then did the Little Prince realize that his beauty would soon disappear, and he left her alone, without protection and help! But the insult has not yet passed, and the Little Prince went on, but he thought only of his abandoned flower.
The seventh was the Earth - a very difficult planet! Suffice it to say that there are one hundred and eleven kings, seven thousand geographers, nine hundred thousand businessmen, seven and a half million drunkards, three hundred and eleven million amateurs - a total of about two billion adults. But the Little Prince made friends only with the snake, the Fox and the pilot. The snake promised to help him when he bitterly regrets his planet. And Fox taught him to be friends. Everyone can tame someone and become his friend, but you always need to be responsible for those you have tamed. And the Fox also said that only the heart is vigilant - you cannot see the most important thing with your eyes. Then the Little Prince decided to return to his rose, because he was responsible for it. He went to the desert - to the very place where he fell. So they and the pilot got to know each other. The pilot drew him a lamb in a box and even a muzzle for a lamb, although he had previously thought that he could only draw boas - outside and inside. The little prince was happy, but the pilot felt sad - he realized that he, too, had been tamed. Then the Little Prince found a yellow snake, whose bite kills in half a minute: she helped him, as promised. The snake can return everyone to where he came from - she returns people to the earth, and she returned the Little Prince to the stars. The kid told the pilot that it would only look like death, so there was no need to be sad - let the pilot remember him, looking at the night sky. And when the Little Prince laughs, it will seem to the pilot that all the stars are laughing like five hundred million bells.
The pilot repaired his plane, and the comrades turned to his return. Since then, six years have passed: little by little he was consoled and fell in love with looking at the stars. But he is always overwhelmed with excitement: he forgot to draw a strap for a muzzle, and the lamb could eat a rose. Then it seems to him that all the bells are crying. After all, if the rose is no longer in the world, everything will be different, but no adult will ever understand how important this is.
At the age of six, the boy happened to read a story about how a boa constrictor swallows its victims. Then he himself tried to draw a snake that swallows an elephant, but none of the people around him understood this drawing, everyone believed that the child depicted an ordinary hat. The boy created another image containing the insides of a boa constrictor, but adults strongly advised him not to waste time and diligently study at school such subjects as mathematics, geography, history, native language. After some time, the child abandoned the idea of becoming an artist in the future, he chose the specialty of a pilot for himself, and he almost never showed his first drawing to anyone in his adult life, knowing that people would not be able to understand him.
The pilot could not find a real friend for himself, with whom he could talk about what really worried him, that is, about boas, unknown places, stars. He has already come to terms with the fact that he will have to spend his whole life alone, but one day the mysterious Little Prince appeared in his fate.
Being in the Sahara desert after the plane crashed, the pilot thought hard about how to fix the situation. The man understood that he was actually doomed to death, because the water reserves he had could last no more than a week. But at dawn he was awakened by a thin childish voice asking him to draw a lamb for him. The pilot with great surprise saw a charming little boy who got into the Sahara by an unknown way. He agreed to fulfill the request of the child, moreover, this kid immediately recognized in the first children's drawing a boa constrictor pilot who had eaten an elephant. It soon became clear that before the boy, called the Little Prince, lived on some small planet, where, apart from him, there were no living creatures.
From morning to evening, the little prince put things in order in his habitat, he weeded out sprouts of harmful baobabs and cleaned volcanoes, but he lived extremely sad and lonely. Once in the life of the Little Prince, a wonderful Rose appeared, which he sincerely fell in love with, but she seemed to him too arrogant, capricious and even cruel. The boy decided to look for a friend on neighboring planets and went on a journey, leaving his flower for a while.
However, on none of the asteroids did the Little Prince meet the person with whom he would really want to make friends. Neither a king dreaming of at least a few subjects, nor an overly ambitious inhabitant of another planet, nor a drinker liked him and did not arouse a desire to stay with them. The lamplighter, who honestly fulfills his duty to light the lights in the evening and extinguish the lanterns in the morning, made the best impression on the Little Prince, he already intended to stay with this man, because he passionately dreamed of a friend, but the lamplighter's planet turned out to be too small, and the boy flew on.
On the sixth planet, he met with a geographer who explained to him that the life of flowers is very short, unlike oceans and mountains. The little prince realized with horror that his beautiful Rose would soon be gone, while he left her all alone, depriving her of his help. But he still did not stop being offended by Rosa, so he did not return home, but continued his wanderings.
On Earth, the seventh planet for him, the Little Prince saw great amount adults, among whom were ambitious people, and kings, and drunkards, but the boy managed to make friends only with the Fox, the Snake and the pilot. The snake promised that she would definitely come to the aid of the Little Prince when he began to yearn bitterly for his home planet.
The fox taught the boy the art of true friendship. Each creature able to tame someone, but for those who are tamed, it is necessary to bear responsibility in the future. After that, the Little Prince decided to return to Rose, because he had tamed her and, accordingly, was now obliged to take care of her.
Once in the Sahara, the boy met a pilot who had an accident, and found with him mutual language. The man drew a lamb and a muzzle for the animal for the Little Prince, although he did not think before that he could create such images. The boy then met with the yellow Snake, who was able to return everyone to exactly where they were originally.
The little prince was returned by her to the stars, before leaving, he assured the pilot that he should not be sad and yearn, that when looking at the stars he can always remember the little boy from another planet, with whom he was truly happy, let and for a very short time.
The pilot managed to repair the plane, he returned to the base to his comrades, where everyone was heartily happy with him, because he was already considered dead. Since then, six years have passed, the man really managed to console himself after the loss of an accidentally found friend, and in free time he always looked at the stars willingly, worrying whether the lamb he had drawn had eaten the Little Prince's favorite Rose. But he was not going to share these thoughts and feelings with anyone, knowing that no adult would be able to understand him anyway.
Title of the work: The little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Year of writing: 1942
Genre of work: story - fairy tale
Main characters: The little Prince- an alien who arrived from a planet called asteroid B-612, The narrator- a pilot who fell into the Sahara, who dreamed of becoming an artist.
Plot
The pilot is forced to make an emergency landing in the Sahara desert. There he meets the Little Prince, who is an alien. He tells the pilot about his travels, life at home. There he left Rosa, the thorny beauty, whom he fell in love with. Asteroid B-612 has 3 volcanoes. The prince takes care of the planet by breaking through the baobabs in time. Having experienced a feeling of boredom, he decided to travel the universe. He met with different characters, for example, with an ambitious man, a drunkard, a king, a lamplighter, a geographer, a fox. He learned a lot of valuable things from them, visited the Earth again and died from a snake bite. The pilot fixed the plane and flew home, but the meeting with the Little Prince created a revolution in his soul.Conclusion (my opinion)
The story has a deep meaning. If a person remembers his childhood, it will add meaningfulness to life. Children often see things that adults simply do not notice. When people grow up their imagination fails, they don't believe in miracles. Sometimes, doing everyday life people miss out on more important things. The phrase, which is known to many - "we are responsible for those whom we have tamed", helps to see how important it is to appreciate relatives and friends."The Little Prince" summary for reader's diary outlined below.
"The Little Prince" summary for the reader's diary
At the age of 6, the boy read a book about a boa constrictor and drew a snake that swallowed an elephant. Adults laughed at his drawing and advised him to do something worthwhile. And when the boy grew up, he became a pilot. One day, his engine died in the desert, and he was forced to make a landing.
In the morning he was awakened by a thin voice asking him to draw a lamb. The new acquaintance turned out to be a quiet boy with golden hair. How he got into the desert was unknown. And he was the only one who could see what the pilot had drawn. Then it turned out that this is the Little Prince, he flew from the asteroid B-612. The planet was tiny, and there were only 3 volcanoes on it. But once a rose seed was brought to the asteroid, from which it grew beautiful flower. The kid fell in love with the rose very much, looked after her, but she was a terribly capricious creature, and the Little Prince, one might say, "ran away" from her.
He began to travel around the planets: the King lived on one, the Ambitious on the other, the Drunkard on the third, the Businessman on the fourth, and the Lamplighter on the fifth ... Everything plunges the Little Prince into amazement: he discovers many human qualities, such as ambition, drunkenness , excessive pride ... When he gets to the sixth planet, where the Geographer lived, he advises the kid to go to Earth.
And on Earth, the Little Prince meets the Fox, who reveals a secret to him: "You are responsible for those whom you tamed ..". The fox taught him to be friends. In the desert, the kid met a snake who said that she could bring him back, and after that the Little Prince met a pilot. At the end, the "pilot" realizes that he himself was tamed ... And the Little Prince goes to his asteroid.
