what is the theme of the story?"The last lesson"
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This chapter
is about love for one’s mother-tongue. France lost districts of Alsace and
Lorraine to the Prussians in the Franco-Prussian War. As a result, German was
imposed in the schools of these districts.
Suddenly,
all the Frenchmen realized how much they loved their mother-tongue; they did
not want to part with it. M. Hamel, the village teacher who taught French, taught
last lesson to his countrymen.
He tried to
teach them as much as he could. He told them they had not taken French learning
seriously. He did not blame his students alone for poor learning. He also held himself
responsible for the same. He was very patriotic as he appealed to his countrymen to hold fast to their mother tongue to be free from
the Prussians. According
to him the French language was the most beautiful, the clearest and the
most logical language in
the world. He appealed to his countrymen to guard it and never
forget it. He was
emotionally attached to the school and all his students. However, he was very
brave and strong. He was really sorry for not making sincere efforts to teach
French to his countrymen. At the end, he became so emotional that he could not
speak. At last he wrote ‘Vive La France’ and gestured the dispersal.