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Chapter 11
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in The Little Prince, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Relationships
The True and the Essential
Exploration vs. Narrowmindedness
Childhood vs. Adulthood
Innocence
Summary
Analysis
On the next planet, the little prince encounters a tippler, who sits before a collection of empty and full bottles. He tells the little prince that he is drinking to forget that he is ashamed of drinking, and the little prince travels on, puzzled.
As with the other grownups the little prince meets, the tippler exercises faulty, circular logic that serves only to conceal the truth, and to reveal the way that grownups deceive themselves rather than create true connections with others.
Themes
