Little Prince- Chapter 13

Summary:

The thirteenth chapter is about that little prince reached the fourth planet and met a businessman. When the little prince arrived, the businessman was busy calculating numbers. The businessman was a serious person.The little prince also liked to ask questions. The business man said he had been interrupted by a beetle, a fit of rheumatism and the little prince. The business man owned a lot of stars and told the little prince how he can own something. The little prince asked him how he do with those stars. The businessman said he could manage and count them. The little prince thought his work was abstract. The businessman said he used his own way to make his work become concrete. But the little prince had diverse thoughts about serious things from adults When the businessman heard his ideas, the businessman had no answers. The little prince felt adults were unusual and went on his travel.

Vocabulary:

trifle (n.)-- something that is not important

grumpily (adv.)-- bad-tempered

stroll (n.)-- to walk somewhere in a slow relaxed way


Interesting Sentence:

"Those little golden thing that make lazy people daydream."

This sentence means those wonderful thing can make lazy people have a dream on the day.


Questions:

1. What is the underlying meaning of stars? money?

2. What does retort mean?
 a. refute
 b. answer
 c. say
 d. restore