Question:
Give a detailed summary of the Chapter "The last lesson"
Class 12th!
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The story begins with young Franz who got late for school on a gentle morning. Franz was scared that his teacher, Mr. Hamil, was going to scold him as he had not prepared his French lessons on participles on which he was supposed to be questioned. He was tempted by the chirping birds and the drilling of the Prussian soldiers but somehow managed to hurry off to school. On his way to school he had to pass the town hall and noticed a crowd in front of the bulletin board. He immediately recalled the incidents in the past when the bulletin board only gave them bad news- the lost battles, the orders of the commanding officer and so on. However, he hastened off to school but to his surprise, he school was abnormally “still”. Usually there is a lot of hassle during the school hours caused by the opening and closing of desks, repetition of lessons in unison, e teacher’s ruler rapping on the table and more. BUt today everything was as quiet as a Sunday morning. When Franz finally reached the classroom, he saw all his classmates seated in their places while M. Hamel was seen walking up and down with his ruler. He was terrified to get inside the class. But M. Hamel did not reprimand him for being late, instead, he kindly asked him to sit on his place.
As he sat down at his desk he suddenly noticed his teacher’s dress for the day. He was dressed formally in his “beautiful green coat”, his frilled shirt and his black silk embroidered cap that he wore only on inspection and prize days. This added to the strangeness of the day and suggested that today was a special day. Again, he noticed that the back benches that are usually empty were filled with the village people including old Hauser, the former mayor, the former postmaster and a lot of other people. Franz was unable to figure anything out as everything about the day was unusual. He sat down there wondering what was going on when M. Hamel announced that today was the last French lesson that he was going to give as an order had come from Berlin to teach only German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. Even though Franz feared his master and had no idea about French participles, this news came as a shock to him. He barely knew any French. He felt really sorry for not learning his lessons properly. He regretted the times he seeked bird’s eggs or went for sliding on the Saar and not learning his lessons. The French books that seemed to be a burden on him suddenly became something that was too precious to give up. Even though M. Hamel was a strict and cranky teacher, the idea of not being able to see him again made Franz sad.
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Summary of the chapter last lesson is given is here as :-
The starting of the story is occur even Franz a school boy was very happy and pleasant to see the beautiful atmosphere of the morning, the sounds of birds and marching soldiers so that's why he got late for his school. When was going to school he saw there were some crowd at the notice board but he was getting late and he also didn't his homework ...
So he reached to his class and sit on the last bench but everything was changed in the class some village people was also sitting there and the teacher Mr M Hamel was in their special outfit which he used to wear on result announcement day or more special occasions...
Then class started and teacher asked for homework but the Franz hadn't his homework and surprised was that teacher didn't scold him and announced there today is your last lesson because a order is came from Berlin that only German will teach in the schools.. All were surprised specially Franz he was feeling the high love for his mother language whether was boring to h before...
Then teacher stared to taught last lesson in France and it was the First time when Franz was enjoying and getting his language... Then teacher said that I had done and it was my fault also that u all didn't get ur language properly and now we will never learnt it....
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