Hare Krishna, Good Morning to all.
I hope you would have studied THE LAST LESSON thoroughly, the last day.
Let's move on to a few important focus points in the text.
Go through it, attempt all these questions and send it back to me on my What's app number.
1.I started for school very late that morning and was in great dread of a scolding.
*What does it tell us about Franz' attitude towards schooling?
2. I did not know the first word about them. For a moment I thought of running away and spending the day out of doors.
*What does it tell us about Franz' attitude towards learning his mother tongue?
3.Bulletin-board, for the last two years all our bad news had come from there — the lost battles, the draft, the orders of the commanding officer
*What is the significance of the bulletin board?
4.“Don’t go so fast, bub; you’ll get to your school in plenty of time!”
*Who says this? Why? is the speaker seems sarcastic in making this comment?
5.Usually, when school began, there was a great bustle, which could be heard out in the street, the opening and closing of desks, lessons repeated in unison, very loud, with our hands over our ears to understand better, and the teacher’s great ruler rapping on the table.
* Why are the school across the globe have such chaois universally? Is this the atmosphere of serious learning?
6.But now it was all so still!
*Why was it so?
7.“Go to your place quickly, little Franz. We were beginning without you.”
*Who says this? What change has come over the speaker and why?
8. "I did see that our teacher had on his beautiful green coat, his frilled shirt, and the little black silk cap, all embroidered, that he never wore except on inspection and prize days"
* Was it the Prize-giving day? Then why was the teacher groomed himself so?
9.Everybody looked sad.
*Why did they?
10.“My children, this is the last lesson I shall give you. The order has come from Berlin to teach only German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. The new master comes tomorrow. This is your last French lesson. I want you to be very attentive.”
* Why did he want them to be very attentive?
11.What a thunderclap these words were to me!
My last French lesson! Why, I hardly knew how to write! I should never learn any more! I must stop there, then! Oh, how sorry I was for not learning my lessons, for seeking birds’ eggs, or going sliding on the Saar! My books, that had seemed such a nuisance a while ago, so heavy to carry, my grammar, and my history of the saints, were old friends now that I couldn’t give up.
*Comment on the learners changed attitude.
* Why had he been so casual towards learning?
12. I heard my name called. It was my turn to recite. What would I not have given to be able to say that dreadful rule for the participle all through, very loud and clear, and without one mistake? But I got mixed up on the first words and stood there, holding on to my desk, my heart beating, and not daring to look up.
*What has brought this change over in him?
13.“I won’t scold you, little Franz; you must feel bad enough.
‘How is it; you pretend to be Frenchmen, and yet you can neither speak nor write your own language?’ But you are not the worst, poor little Franz. We’ve all a great deal to reproach ourselves with.”
*Why to reproach?
14.“Your parents were not anxious enough to have you learn. They preferred to put you to work on a farm or at the mills, so as to have a little more money. And I? I’ve been to blame also. Have I not often sent you to water my flowers instead of learning your lessons? And when I wanted to go fishing, did I not just give you a holiday?”
How had everyone been held utmost responsible towards their 1dé
15.French language, saying that it was the most beautiful language in the world — the clearest, the most logical; that we must guard it among us and never forget it, because when a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison.
* What does a language mean to it's natural speakers?
16.I was amazed to see how well I understood it. All he said seemed so easy, so easy! I think, too, that I had never listened so carefully, and that he had never explained everything with so much patience.
* What is the reality? Who was more callous between the two?
17.how quiet it was! The only sound was the scratching of the pens over the paper. Once some beetles flew in; but nobody paid any attention to them, not even the littlest ones, who worked right on tracing their fish-hooks, as if that was French, too.
W*says this? Why didn't they disturb to the slightest?
18.On the roof the pigeons cooed very low, and I thought to myself, “Will they make them sing in German, even the pigeons?”
What do you understand by this comment?
19.I never saw him look so tall.
Then he turned to the blackboard, took a piece of chalk, and, bearing on with all his might, he wrote as large as he could —“Vive La France!”
*Why should one's own language be revered?
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