1- What was the scene in school on the morning of the last lesson. How was it different
from that on other days?
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The last lesson was different from earlier lessons in many ways. It revealed the love and respect of the teacher and students for their mother tongue. ... This lesson was attended by villagers to show their love and respect for their mother tongue.
the morning, there would be a great bustle, which could be heard out in the street, the opening and closing of desks, lessons repeated in unison, very loud, with the students keeping their hands over their ears to understand better
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Explanation:
The Last lesson is a prose written by a French author Alphonse Daudet set in the times of the Franco-Prussian war. It describes about the importance of language to its citizens and the need to realize that laguage is what gives us our freedom and identity.
When Franz reached school that day he was suprised to find it as quiet as a Sunday morning. His classmates were already seated on their benches and there was no banging of desks or the teacher's ruler rapping on the table. Everything was calm and quiet. The teacher had already started teaching and there was pin drop silence in the class. Usually there used to be geat commotions in the classroom with everyone shouting and repeating their lessons.
The teacher M.Hamel was dressed in his Sunday best wearing a green coat , frilled shirt and black silk cap that he used to wear only on inspection and special days. He looked highly upset and depressed. The whole classroom seemed strange and solemn. Franz was suprised to find M.Hamel kinder than usual. He did'nt scold Franz for being late and not leaning participles.
Franz also found out that the back benches of the class room were occupied by the village elders. All of them looked sad and solemn. They had come to the attend the class as a mark of respect for their mother tongue and as a gratitute M.Hamel for his forty years of service.
The order from Berlin to teach only German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine created an atmosphere of dismay in the school. Their basic right to learn their mother tongue was taken away and they realized the value of one's own language. They regretted that they had not learned their mother tongue earlie when they had the necessary provisions.