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Answer the following question in 120-150 words:

Our language is part of our culture and we are proud of it. Describe how regretful M. Hamel and the village elders are for having neglected their native language, French.

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Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie's dreams?

 

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There is no doubt that our language is a part of our culture and we feel proud of it. But the true value of it can be realized only when the freedom of speaking it, is taken away from us.                                                            The story ?The Last Lesson? depicts the pathos of the whole situation, how people feel in not learning their language and losing an asset in M. Hamel. One day Franz, one of the students came unwillingly to the school and noticed that everything was still and as quiet as Sunday morning. There was an order from Berlin that French would not be taught furthermore in the schools and instead German was to be taught. This news shocked everyone. All the villagers gathered in the classroom to attend their last French lesson and to mark their respect for the French teacher, M. Hamel, who was going to deliver his last speech in French. They sat on the back benches with the students. They felt sorry that they had not attended the school. And thanked Hamel for his faithful service.             To honor his French lesson, M. Hamel also put on his fine Sunday clothes. His behavior changed to kindness. He told his students that it was the most beautiful and logical language and they should not forget it.

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It is a natural thing for teenagers to dream. They don?t have much liabilities and burden at this stage of life so they are free to dream. It is part of their life but sometimes these dreams are impractical and non-realistic and when they are shattered. They cause a lot of pain.             In the story ?Going Places? the author has described the feelings and dreams of a girl, Sophie, who was a school-going teenager. She was a day dreamer and fantasized that she dreamt of having met him twice in the arcade. For her, he was a hero to be worshipped. She went to the place where she thought he would meet her and when he didn?t turn up she felt disappointed. Then she thought of owning boutique, becoming a manager, a fashion designer or an actress irrespective of thinking about her socio economic status. She had no thought about where the money would come for opening a boutique. She was blind to the better truth of life. She dreamt of an imaginary life, full of beautiful things. It can be said that she wanted to lead a lavish and grand life which was not possible. She was over ambitious. Her dreams were unrealistic in the sense that ultimately she would have to work in a biscuit factory.