The Little Prince

Detail Summary of Chapter 16

By
Student’s Name: Arpan Acharya
Vocabulary in the Chapter

 Conceited: excessively proud of oneself

 Splendid: magnificent
Characters in the chapter
 The little prince
Scene of the Action
 Earth/ seventh planet
 Detail summary of the actions

 The little prince had never even imagined such a big planet. He describes
that earth contains almost two billion grown-ups : hundreds of kings,
thousands of geographers, hundreds of thousands of businessmen, and
millions of drunkards and vain men. He also mentions that before the
advent of electricity, Earth held 462,511 lamplighters who would perform
a kind of global dance each day, unconsciously coordinating their
movements as the sun swept across the turning planet. Only the
lamplighters at the North and South Poles were not part of this
choreography, since they had to work only twice a year.