Tuesday, April 19, 2016

The Last Lesson

The Last Lesson
Alphonse Daudet


Theme: Loss, Loss of the strict school teacher that children learned to like.

Text Evidence: "My children this is the last day I shall teach you."

Summary: When Berlin gives orders that the children of Alsace, France are to quit teaching French and are to start teaching German. An old school teacher gives one last lesson that all the students are sure to remember even his most troublesome.

Characters: Monsieur Hamel, Author, Wachter, villagers, authors class mates.

Setting: School in Alsace, France.

Conflict: Person v.s. Society. Berlin takes over Alsace, France and changes the school against the characters will.

Figurative Language: The story uses a lot of metaphors.

Point of View: First person 

Text Evidence: "But I mustered up the strength to resist temptation, and hurried on to school."

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