CBSE Class 12 English Flamingo Prose Chapter 1 The Last Lesson

Class Notes of Chapter 1: The Last Lesson

Class 12th English
Prose
Flamingo

The Last Lesson - Alphonse Daudet

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• Summary
• Point Wise Summary

Summary


'The Last Lesson' composed by Alphonse Daudet describes the year 1870 when the Prussian powers under Bismarck assaulted and caught France. The French locale of Alsace and Lorraine went into Prussian hands. The new Prussian rulers ended the instructing of French in the schools of these two regions The French instructors were requested to take off. Presently M. Hamel could never again remain in his school. Still, he offered exercise to his understudies with most extreme dedication and earnestness as ever. One such understudy of M. Hamel, Franz who feared French class and M. Hamel's iron pole, went to the school that day supposing he would be rebuffed as he had not taken in his exercise on participles.

Be that as it may, on achieving school he discovered Hamel wearing his fine Sunday garments and the elderly individuals of the town sitting unobtrusively on the back seats. It was because of a request from Berlin. That was the primary day when he understood out of the blue that how critical French was for him, however, it was his last exercise in French. The story delineates the emotion of the entire circumstance about how individuals feel when they don't take in their own dialect. It educates us concerning the noteworthiness of one's dialect in one's life for the plain presence of a race and that it is so vital to shield it.

Point Wise Summary

1. Franz fears to go to class as he has not learned participles.
2. He needs to appreciate the excellence of nature. The splendid daylight, the feathered creatures chirruping in the forested areas, Prussian troopers boring, however, stood up to.
3. Announcement board: all awful news lost fights, the drafts and requests of the bosses: pondered what it could be currently
4. The progressions he saw in the school.
5. Rather than boisterous classrooms, everything was as calm as Sunday morning
6. The educator does not chasten him and disclosed to him generous to go to his seat
7. The educator wearing his Sunday best.
8. Villagers possessing the last seats
9. To pay tribute to M. Hamel for his 40 yrs of true administration and furthermore to express their solidarity with France.
10. Hamel making the declaration that that would be the last French exercise; understands that, that was what was set up on the release board.
11. Franz understands that he doesn't realize his own primary language
12. Lamented why he had not considered his exercises important.
13. Additionally understands the motivation behind why educator was wearing his Sunday best and villagers sitting at the back.
14. Hamel understands that each of the three, the youngsters , the guardians and he himself are to be rebuked for losing admiration and respect for the first language.
15. Continuously keep the first language near your heart as it is the way to the jail of bondage.
16. Air in class: instructor educating truly and quietly, understudies and others considering with most extreme truthfulness.
17. Franz thinks about snidely whether Prussians could drive pigeons to coo in German.
18. Hamel defeat with feelings couldn't talk and composed on the writing board "Long Live France".