The fox looks at him out of the corner of his eye and every day, at the same time, the prince arrives at their designated spot and sits a little closer to the fox. What the fox means by “tame” is to “make friends” or “to establish a relationship.” According to the fox, unless you build a relationship with a person and get to really understand him or her, that person will remain indistinguishable for you from the hundreds of thousands of people in the world-and you, too, will not be “unique” or special to him or her.Īnd how does the prince tame the fox? He sits down on the grass at a little distance from the fox and says nothing because, as the fox tells him, “Words are the source of misunderstandings” (21.37). But after the fox is tamed, the prince and the fox will become unique for each other. And to the prince, the fox is “nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes” (21.18). Without “taming,” the fox says, the prince will be “nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys” (21.18).
The process of “taming,” he explains, they will come to mean something to each other and will need each other. When the prince asks him what “tame” means, the fox says it means “to establish ties” (21. When the fox and the little prince meet for the first time, the fox asks the prince to “tame” him. But let’s put it back in context and see how the fox arrives at this idea, and why the prince treasures it as a secret worth passing on. The meaning of this idea is still true and important. This line is often lifted straight out of this book and put on coffee mugs, Facebook walls, or inspirational posters. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye” (21.36). Adorable!īUT the fox wouldn’t think that it’s a big deal that he’s so cute he’d be all like, “Meh.” In fact, one of the most important things that he tells the little prince is: What kind of fox would be wandering around in the Sahara Desert, anyway? A fennec fox, of course.
The first thing that the little prince says on seeing the fox is: “You are very pretty to look at” (21.5). He teaches the prince lessons that the prince then teaches the narrator (and by extension us, the readers.) Cute and Cuddly?Ībsolutely. He teaches the prince lessons that the prince then teaches the narrator (and by extension us, the readers.) Although he only has a cameo role, the fox is a super-duper important character in this book. Although he only has a cameo role, the fox is a super-duper important character in this book.
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