Describe the appearance of the little prince.

A description of a character's "appearance" might be about the way he looks (the character's physical attributes, like "short" and "blonde") or about the circumstances in which he enters the story for the first time. I'll talk about both, then: what the little prince looks like, and what it's like when he first pops into the story.

The little prince appears very suddenly to the narrator in Chapter 2, after the narrator has crashed his...

A description of a character's "appearance" might be about the way he looks (the character's physical attributes, like "short" and "blonde") or about the circumstances in which he enters the story for the first time. I'll talk about both, then: what the little prince looks like, and what it's like when he first pops into the story.

The little prince appears very suddenly to the narrator in Chapter 2, after the narrator has crashed his plane in the desert where not another soul was around. Instead of saying "hello" or introducing himself, the little prince immediately asks that the narrator draw him a sheep. It's an odd appearance, to say the least. Here's what he looks like:

"And I saw a most extraordinary small person, who stood there examining me with great seriousness."

As you can tell from the narration, the little prince is very small, with a serious face.

In fact, if you take a look at the illustrations in the book, you can go ahead and interpret them as a valid part of the storytelling--the illustrations were created by the author himself. So envision the little prince just as he is in the illustrations, with that grand and fairly ridiculous cape, the messy blonde hair, and the cute little face.

The most interesting part about the little prince's appearance, though, is probably his attitude. He's acting as though being in the middle of the desert, right where the pilot has crashed, is a totally normal circumstance:

"And yet my little man seemed neither to be straying uncertainly among the sands, nor to be fainting from fatigue or hunger or thirst or fear. Nothing about him gave any suggestion of a child lost in the middle of the desert, a thousand miles from any human habitation."

Like any normal person would do under these circumstances, the pilot asks the prince where he came from, but the little prince ignores the question and asks again for a drawing of a sheep.