Chapter Three -- Tower Description

This image is from chapter three of The Little Lame Prince. The image is of the tower and the lack of things surrounding it, as the narrator notes: “They did not know–indeed, hardly anybody did know–that beyond the mountains, between them and the sea, lay a tract of country, barren, level, bare, except for short, stunted grass, and here and there a patch of tiny flowers. Not a bush–not a tree not a resting place for birth or beast was in that dreary plain.” This image and the descriptive quote emphasizes the theme of loneliness that is tied together with towers in the text. The detailed description includes the fact that there are not even graves nearby, that is how isolated and desolate the tower is.