The Last Class: The Story of a Little Alsatian.What does the mood of the story tell you about the town's attitude toward the announcement?
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"The Last Class" begins with young student Franz walking very slowly to school because he has his French class, and he says that the "lesson for the day would be on participles about which Franz did not know a word."
To delay the inevitable scolding he will receive, Franz takes a longer route through the fields and sees a blacksmith putting a notice up outside the mayor's house. The signs usually tell people news about Alsace's battle with the the Germans, which in recent years had been mostly bad news, so Franz asks the Blacksmith if anything new has happened. The blacksmith, however, just tells him: "It is not safe. Run along quickly to school."
Franz thinks that the blacksmith is jesting until he arrives in his classroom to find everyone silent and people from the village, including an old soldier, sitting solemnly on the benches at the back. Franz is still expecting his school master to scold him, but instead he tells him to sit down, he has something to say.