Question

Franz thinks, "will they make them sing in german, even the pigeons' what could this mean?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Alphonse Daudet's 'The last lesson' very prominently rises the question of linguistic and cultural hegemony of the colonial and imperial power and their lust for controlling the world and influencing their cultures and identities. Enforcement of German on the defeated Nation was a way of realising this. The order to teach German rather than France in schools was released.

Franz is flabbergasted on hearing this and understands that this order would deprive him of learning his mother tongue. He also wondered if the pigeons would have to coo in German too. Compelling them to use a foreign language was like snatching away the language from them which he felt would be unfair and unkind. The language was is natural to them as cooing is to the pigeon. So compulsion to speak another language is like dominating the force of nature and unslaving it. As it is next to impossible to tell the way pigeons sing the same way it is difficult for people to accept a language which age forcibly imposed on them. Adopting a new language causes pain and discomfort.