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A summary of 'the last lesson' in short and simple language.....

Answer 1

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Summary of "the last lesson"

The last lesson’ written by Alphonse Daudet narrates about the year 1870 when the Prussian forces under Bismarck attacked and captured France. The French districts of Alsace and Lorraine went into Prussian hands. The new Prussian rulers discontinued the teaching of French in the schools of these two districts The French teachers were asked to leave. Now M. Hamel could no longer stay in his school. Still he gave lesson to his students with utmost devotion and sincerity as ever. One such student of M. Hamel, Franz who dreaded French class and M. Hamel’s iron rod, came to the school that day thinking he would be punished as he had not learnt his lesson on participles. But on reaching school he found Hamel dressed in his fine Sunday clothes and the old people of the village sitting quietly on the back benches. It was due to an order from Berlin. That was the first day when he realized for the first time that how important French was for him, but it was his last lesson in French. The story depicts the pathos of the whole situation about how people feel when they don’t learn their own language. It tells us about the significance of one’s language in one’s life for the very existence of a race and how important it is to safeguard it.

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Answer 2

THE LAST LESSON ( FLAMINGO )

SUMMARY :

In this chapter, the author depicted the moment of last lesson delivered by the French teacher in Franz's School. As they ( Alsace ) were dominated by Germans, so Germans took all the monopoly over everything in Alsace.

So, the lessons delivered in  Schools of Alsace were also in German. Their native language, French was also not in their hands.

That's all the narrator, summarised the last French lesson which had a great importance because earlier lessons were not listened attentively, created a huge Impact on "THE LAST LESSON".