The Little Prince Themes

Characters in The Little Prince, especially the prince, are really committed to learning what is true. “True,” in this sense, doesn’t just mean what’s actual versus what’s a lie, but what...

The main characters change a ton in The Little Prince. It’s not like they grow ten feet, get tattoos, or start wearing all black. Unlike other books about growing up, the characters don’t chang...

The Little Prince is full of sad things. Sure, there’s joy too, and friendship, and love, and understanding… but all of that is touched by sadness, especially once we get to the end of the book...

Technically, The Little Prince is set in a real place: the Sahara Desert, on our planet earth. But, in the Sahara, the narrator meets a prince who isn’t from our reality. He’s just visiting. Th...

Friendships are the most important kinds of relationships in The Little Prince. These friendships are really unusual, and the common link between all of them is the prince. See, the prince is frien...

Meeting the prince changes the narrator’s life in a lot of ways. More than anything, this new friend helps the narrator see the world in a different light. (Who’s the real lamplighter, then?) P...

At its core, The Little Prince may be about innocence. “Innocence,” as it’s defined in Merriam-Webster, means, “freedom from guilt or sin through being unacquainted with evil.” The prince...

In The Little Prince, characters who move out of their comfort zones and persevere are seen as positive. The more questions the narrator asks of the prince, the more he learns about his new friend....