CHAPTER I

The narrator started the story with his drawing when he was six. It is a picture of a boa
constrictor from the outside and the inside, eating its prey, an elephant; but when he showed it to
the grown-ups, they would always say that it is a drawing of a hat and he would always explain
to them that it is an elephant inside a boa constrictor and will show the grown-ups his drawing
number two showing the inside of the boa. From then, he learned that grown-ups lack
understanding and always need explanation. Because of that, he gave up what he believes to be a
magnificent career, a painter and learned to become a pilot.

CHAPTER II

In this chapter, the narrator talks about the plane crash he had in the desert six years ago and how
he met the young prince. The prince asked him to draw a sheep for him but he has not drawn a
sheep before and instead drew what he has always drawn, the boa constrictor from the outside.
He was then surprised to hear the young prince saying, “No, no, no! I do not want an elephant
inside a boa constrictor. A boa constrictor is a very dangerous creature, and an elephant is very
cumbersome. Where I live, everything is very small. What I need is a sheep. Draw me a sheep.”
That started his acquaintance with the prince.

CHAPTER III

In this chapter, the narrator tries to figure out where the young boy came from by asking him
questions that he never answered. The prince would just always say that where he lives,
everything is so small that the sheep can’t go very far. Where the prince lives remained mystery.

CHAPTER IV

In this chapter, the narrator learned that the planet where the little prince came from was smaller
than a house and he believed that he is from the asteroid B-612. He continued to talk about how
grown-ups only value figures as details and never asked for essential matters. The narrator also
believes that the prince thought that they are the same.

CHAPTER V

In this chapter, the narrator was asked by the prince if the sheep eat baobabs too and from that,
learned about the catastrophe of baobabs in the planet where the little prince came from. How the
baobabs, which are really big trees, can destroy the small planet he lives in. Because of the
danger baobabs may cause, the narrator was able to draw a very good picture of the baobabs
unlike his other drawings because he thinks that it is a necessity to inform other people about the
catastrophic trees.

CHAPTER VI

In this chapter, the narrator learned that the little prince is fond of the sunset and in their planet,
in one day, he can witness the sunset forty-four times. The prince also revealed to him that those
who love sunset are those who are sad.

CHAPTER VII

In this chapter, little prince wonders if the sheep will also eat flowers even with thorns. The
narrator then said that the sheep will eat anything in its reach. Later on, the prince asked him
what the use of thorns is. Because he was busy trying to fix his plane, he answered the prince
that the thorns are just for spite and are not important. This made the prince angry and told him
that he just talked like grown-ups too. "If someone loves a flower, of which just one single
blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to
look at the stars. He can say to himself, 'Somewhere, my flower is there...' But if the sheep eats
the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened... And you think that is not important!"

CHAPTER VIII

In this chapter, the prince tells the narrator about his flower that grew mysteriously on his planet.
He watched it cautiously as it grows; worried that it might be a new type of baobab. But soon it
grows into a rose, a beautiful but a vain creature which demands little prince to take care of her
and asks for many things. The little prince loves the rose so much and is willing to give
everything that she wanted. But one day, he caught her lying when the rose said “Where I come
from,” knowing that she obviously grew from a seed on his planet and does not come from
anywhere. That made the prince doubts her love and become unhappy that soon he decides to
leave his planet.
CHAPTER IX

In this chapter, it is all about how the little prince said goodbye to the rose. Before he left, he
cleans out all his volcanoes including the dormant one and uproots all the baobab shoots he can
find. And for the last time, he waters his rose and was about to put the glass glove over the rose’s
head but she refused. The prince said his goodbye to the rose and the rose apologizes and assures
him that she really loves him.

CHAPTER X

In this chapter, it is all about the beginning of the little prince’s journey where he finds himself
near asteroids 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, and 330. On the first asteroid, he met a king sitting on a
throne and wearing a magnificent fur cloak. The king claims to reign over the stars and began
ordering the little prince claiming him as his subject. He believes that he was a reasonable man
that is why he has the right to command. The little prince left saying that grown-ups are very
strange.

CHAPTER XI

In this chapter, the little prince met a vain man on the second planet he visited. The man was
very conceited that he claimed the prince to be his admirer and ordered him to clap his hands and
to tip his hat to shown acknowledgement. He even asked whether the little prince really admires
him but then the prince has no idea what does the word ‘admire’ means. Finally, he said the
words “I admire you” and left saying to himself that grown-ups are odd.

CHAPTER XII

In this chapter, the little prince met a tippler who is drinking. The little prince asked him why he
is drinking and the tippler said that for him to be able to forget. He then asked him what he wants
to forget. And the tippler’s response made him think even more that grown-ups are really
strange. “Forget that I am ashamed, ashamed of drinking!” was the tippler’s response.

CHAPTER XIII

In this chapter, the little prince visited the fourth planet and met a businessman very engrossed
with numerical calculations who won’t answer his questions what he is doing. Finally, with the
little prince’s persistence, he was able to answer that he was counting the stars because he
believed he owns them because he was the first person to think of the idea of owning them. He
said that the stars make him rich by being able to buy more stars if they were not yet discover.
He even said that he puts them in a bank by writing the numbers of stars in a paper and locking it
in. In the end, the little prince talks about his ownership of volcanoes and rose and how he takes
care of them and said that he is of use to his flowers and volcanoes while the businessman is no
use to the stars, leaving the man speechless.

CHAPTER XIV

In this chapter, the fifth planet that the little prince visited was so small that it is only enough to
be occupied by the lamp and its lighter. The prince finds the lamplighter to be absurd just like the
others that he encountered in previous because it is of no use to light the lamp because nobody
else is living in the planet but then he thought that at least its job is meaningful.

CHAPTER XV

In this chapter, the little prince met a man who writes a book in the sixth planet he visited. He is
a geographer who knows the location of all the seas, mountains, cities, and deserts. Hearing all
those, the prince asked whether the geographer knows anything about his planet and said that he
does not know anything because it is not his job to explore it but instead he only gains
information from the explorer and writes about its discoveries. The little prince also learned from
the geographer that flowers are ephemeral and regretted leaving his rose. Finally, he asked what
planet he should visit next and the geographer suggested Earth.

CHAPTER XVI

In this chapter, the narrator introduced the Earth to the little prince. He told him how big the
planet Earth was by mentioning how many kings, businessmen, conceited men, geographers and
how many billions of grown-ups living therein. He also mentioned how many lamplighters the
Earth needed before the invention of the electricity.

CHAPTER XVII

In this chapter, the narrator admits that he gave a false idea about their planet and revealed that
humanity only occupies a very small percentage of the Earth. However, when you mention it to
the grown-ups, they won’t believe because they imagine that they fill a great space of the Earth
and believe that they are of great importance.
CHAPTER XVIII

In this chapter, the little prince encounters a three-petaled flower as he searches the desert for
men. The flower, who has at one point seen a caravan pass by, tells the prince that there are only
a handful of men on Earth and that they have no roots, which lets the wind blow them away and
makes life hard for them.

CHAPTER XIX

In this chapter, the little prince experience to climb the highest mountain he has ever seen. From
the top of the mountain, he hopes he will see the whole planet and find people, but he sees only a
desolate landscape. When the prince calls out, his echo answers him and he mistakes it to be
voices of humans. He thought to himself that Earth is unnecessarily sharp and hard, and he finds
it odd that people of the Earth only repeat what he says to them.

CHAPTER XX

In this chapter, little prince finally finds a road that leads him to a huge rose garden. He was then
surprised to see many flowers that look exactly the same as his rose in his planet, who told him
that she is unique. As the realization struck him, he begins to feel that he is not a great prince at
all for his planet has only three tiny volcanoes and a flower that he now thinks of as a common.
He the lies down in the grass and cried.

CHAPTER XXI

In this chapter, while crying in the grass, the fox appears. The little prince asked the fox to play
with him because of the loneliness that he is feeling but the fox told him that he must tame him
first which the prince did not understand. The fox explained to him that it is to establish ties
between them because they are new to each other and if he tames him, they will need each other.
With that idea, he thought that he was tamed by the rose, revealing to the fox that he came from
another planet. In the end, they became friends and the fox told him why his rose is still unique
and special by telling him “One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to
the eyes. It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important. You
become responsible for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.”
CHAPTER XXII

In this chapter, the little prince met a railway switchman who explained to the little prince what
the trains are for. Later on, the prince asked the switchman whether people are moving because
they are unhappy and the switchman said that the people are always unhappy wherever they are.
He also asked whether people are chasing something and he said that they do not chase anything
at all. The prince remarks that “only the children know what they’re looking for” and the
switchman said “the children are the lucky ones”.

CHAPTER XXIII

In this chapter, the little prince meets a salesclerk who is selling pills invented to quench thirst.
The merchant explains that taking the pills means a person never has to drink anything, which
can save as many as fifty-three minutes a day. The prince replies that if he had an extra fifty-
three minutes, he would spend them by walking very slowly toward a cold fountain.

CHAPTER XXIV

In this chapter, the narrator and the prince search for a well in the desert even if the narrator finds
it absurd. As they search for a well, the two talk about beauty. The prince finds the desert
beautiful because somewhere it conceals a well and the narrator remembers and realizes
something, the rumored buried treasure in a boyhood home. Because of what the little prince
said, he realizes that the source of beauty is always something secret and beautiful. Eventually,
they found a well that will satisfy their thirst.

CHAPTER XXV

In this chapter, The narrator and the prince hoist the water from the well, which looks like a
village well, unlike anything one would expect to find in a desert. As they drink, the narrator is
struck by the sweetness of the water, which revives the heart like a good feast and which is made
special by its setting in the same way that a Christmas present is made special by the celebration
that surrounds it. He and the prince agree that men on Earth lose sight of those things for which
they are looking. People on Earth raise five thousand roses when they could find what they really
want in a single rose or drop of water. But people look with their eyes instead of their hearts, the
prince remarks.
CHAPTER XXVI

In this chapter, the narrator returns from fixing his plane to see the little prince sitting on the wall
of a ruin beside the well. The prince is discussing plans for that evening with someone who
cannot be seen, and the topic of poison is mentioned. The prince asks his unseen companion to
leave so the prince can get off the wall, and when the narrator looks down, he sees a snake. It is
the same snake who greeted the prince when he first arrived on Earth. The narrator draws his
gun, but the snake escapes, and the narrator is left to take care of the prince, who is pale and
frightened. The prince congratulates the pilot on having fixed his plane, and when the narrator
asks the prince how he knows about his plane, the prince says only that he will be going on a
much longer, more difficult journey.

CHAPTER XXVII

In this chapter, ix years later, the narrator reflects on the fate of his friend. He knows the prince
made it back to his planet because the morning after the snake bit the prince, he could not find
the prince’s body. The narrator’s friends are glad to have him back again, and when he looks at
the stars, he hears the sounds of many tiny bells. In a short epilogue, the narrator shows the same
illustration of the desert landscape he showed in his final chapter, only he leaves out the prince.
He calls his final picture the saddest and loveliest landscape in the world. He asks us to keep an
eye out for this landscape if we are ever in the Sahara and to linger under the stars for a while if
we do see it. The narrator asks us to lessen his sadness by sending immediate word if we happen
to meet the little prince.