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-{{The visit to Earth}}}-지구를 방문하다---
Chapter 16 begins: "So then the seventh planet was the Earth".
On the Earth, he starts out in the desert and meets a snake that claims to have the power to return him to his home planet (A clever way to say that he can kill people,thus "Sending anyone he wishes back to the land from whence he came.")
The Prince meets a desert-flower and climbs a mountain.
The Prince sees a whole row of rosebushes, and is downcast because he thought that his was the only one in the whole universe.
Chapter 21 is the author's statement about human love in that the Prince then meets and tames a fox, who explains to the Prince that his rose is unique and special, because she is the one that he loves.
The Prince then meets a railway switchman and a merchant who are as non-self-aware and non-philosophical as the other adults encountered earlier.
In Chapter 24, the narrator's point of view changes again from third person to first person, as the narrator is dying of thirst, but then they find a well.
After some thought, the Prince bids an emotional farewell to the narrator, explaining to him that while it will look as though he has died, he has not, but rather that his body is too heavy to take with him to his planet.
He tells the narrator that it was wrong of the narrator to come and watch, as it will make him sad. The Prince then allows the snake to bite him.
The next morning when the narrator looks for the Prince, he finds his body has disappeared.
The story ends with a portrait of the landscape where the meeting of the Prince and the narrator took place and where the snake took the Prince's life.
The narrator also makes a plea that anyone encountering a strange child in that area who refuses to answer questions to contact the narrator immediately.
The Little Prince is represented as having been on Earth for one year, and the narrator ends the story seven years after he is rescued from the desert.
~♥~녹음해 주셔서 진심으로 감사드립니다. ~♥
