Give an account of.the last day of M.Hamel in school.
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Explanation:
The story described what was just another ordinary day for Franz who started very late for school that morning. Franz, who played truant with French class, feared M. Hamel’s iron rod. He came to the school thinking he would be punished as he had not learnt his lesson on participles. In fact, he was reluctant to go to school.
Initially, he thought of spending the bright warm day outdoors enjoying the chirping of birds and seeing the drilling of Prussian soldiers at the back of the sawmill. On the way, Franz passed the Town hall, where he saw a large crowd reading the bulletin board which had been a source of all bad news. Franz rushed to his classroom, overseeing it for the fear of being chided. When Franz arrived at the school, his classmates were already seated and the teacher had already started teaching.
The back benches were occupied by grim and solemn villagers including the Mayor, The Postmaster, Hauser and many others. To his surprise, M. Hamel was in his Sunday clothes. Franz found M. Hamel to be kinder than usual. Franz was shocked to know that it was the last French lesson and the German teacher would start classes the next day.
He was full of regret for not learning his mother tongue and felt a sudden love for French.
Answer:
In honour of his last french lesson M.hamel put on his fine Sunday clothes and the old villages were present to respect his 40 years of faithful service.In the classroom Hamal told franz that the the prussians would find fault with the frenchman that they did not know to read or write. As he spoke about many things, he said that French was the language to be held and order to be used as the key to the prison of the enslaved. He took up grammar lesson, a lesson in writing and kept gazing at the garden and the classroom where he had spent 40 years of his life. When the trumpets of the prussians were finally blown, M.Hamel stood up, but could not speak out of grief and wrote ”Long live France” in French on the blackboard and dismissed the school