Character Sketch of Franz ('The Last Lesson' by Alphonse Daudet))

These lines have been taken from the last lesson written 'Alphonse Daudet' where Franz is another central character of the lesson.

He is a young boy who spends most of his time out of doors searching birds' eggs and playing instead going his school. But one day Franz gets late for his school and hurries towards his school. On that day while the way to his school Franz sees many unusual things like a huge crowd of people reading the bulletin-board, Prussians soldiers exercising in the field, no hustle and bustle out of the school as usual that makes Franz surprise more than ever before. He guess the day like a Sunday but he knows his teacher hasn't noticed him about the school to be closed. Franz fears to go into the class of his teacher M. Hamel to be scolded because he didn't recite the rules of Participle and another reason to be late. But nothing happens when he enters the class. He feels like a pin drop silence all around the class room as well as the school. He wonders having seen his teacher M.Hamel in his finest Sunday dress in green coat and black silk cap that he wore only at occasion or in prize distribution day. He wonders by watching some village people sitting on back benches that often used to be left empty. He feels uncomfortable having seen such miracle altogether. And then, suddenly he hears M.Hamel saying, this is the last lesson in French language because the order has come from Berlin to teach only German in the schools of Alsas and Lorraine. so from the next day only German will be taught in schools. This makes Franz unexpected. He regrets much towards his school and his teacher M.Hamel.