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    The Last Lesson

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    The narrator is late for his French class and notices the school is unusually quiet. His strict French teacher M. Hamel announces it is his last day teaching, as the Germans have banned French in Alsace schools. The narrator suddenly feels guilty for not taking his French studies seriously and realizes he will miss M. Hamel.

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    The narrator is late for his French class and notices the school is unusually quiet. His strict French teacher M. Hamel announces it is his last day teaching, as the Germans have banned French in Alsace schools. The narrator suddenly feels guilty for not taking his French studies seriously and realizes he will miss M. Hamel.

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    The narrator is late for his French class and notices the school is unusually quiet. His strict French teacher M. Hamel announces it is his last day teaching, as the Germans have banned French in Alsace schools. The narrator suddenly feels guilty for not taking his French studies seriously and realizes he will miss M. Hamel.

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    • The last lesson

    Summary

    The narrator was late for school in the morning. He was a little scared for his French class as he had not
    taken it seriously and the teacher might ask questions on Participles. He wanted to skip school but still
    decided to attend it.

    The narrator saw that there was a huge crowd in front of the bulletin board in the town hall. That
    bulletin board was the harbinger of the bad news for the last two years. All the information on lost wars
    and other depressing news was put there.

    The narrator notices that the school was disturbingly silent as compared to the general state of the
    school when it starts. Generally one could hear the recitation of the lessons and hustle and bustle of
    students around the school.

    In fact, he was pretty accustomed to hide in the noise and reach his desk without getting noticed. But
    now he went in before everybody. He was quite afraid of the french class and sitting there before
    everyone.

    M Hamel who was strict with the narrator in the past asked him to sit down politely. Franz was confused
    as M.Hamel was in informal clothes that he wore on only prize days and inspection days. The
    atmosphere was extremely sad and silent. The most astonishing thing was that the village elders were
    also sitting on the backbenches of the class.

    M.Hamel quietly sat on his chair and spoke in a gentle and grave tone, “My children, this is the last
    lesson I shall give you.” He informed everyone that an order had been released from Berlin. German is
    the only language that would be taught in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. His last lesson in the
    school and the German teacher will join the school from the next day.

    There was guilt somewhere in the narrator for not learning his lessons in French. He never liked his
    books. He had no interest in studies. He didn’t like his Grammar and History books. But now he was
    fascinated by them. He started to like M.Hamel. The thought that he will not teach him from tomorrow
    made him forget about all his rulers.

    He forgot how crazy his teacher was. It was his turn to repeat the lesson. But he got confused and mixed
    up. This time M.Hamel did not scold him.
    The people of Alsace did not generally give no importance to French, M.Hamel showed his concern.
    They ignored learning their own native language. It was not the case only with Franz. Many others were
    also guilty of not learning French. According to him, the French language was the most beautiful
    language in the world.

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