Answer the following question in 120-150 words:

Every teenager has a hero/heroine to admire. So many times they become role models for them. What is wrong if Sophie fantasises about Danny Casey and is ambitious in life?

OR

Our native language is part of our culture and we are proud of it. How does the presence of village elders in the classroom and M. Hamel’s last lesson show their love for French?

It is true that every teenager has a hero/heroine that they admire and even consider as role models. In fact, teenage is the threshold of a myriad of feelings, especially when it comes to developing feelings of liking for someone, be it actors, sportspersons and so on.

Sophie too was a similar teenager who had a similar liking for Danny Casey, a sensational football player from Ireland. Casey had become very popular among the young generation, and especially among girls who fantasized about him. Sophie had developed an instant crush on Casey right from the moment she saw him play.

However, her fantasies soon became out of bounds, as despite having negligible interaction with him, he had become the subject of her daydreams. Increasingly, he became the only topic Sophie conversed about, a majority of these being tell-tales.

Not just that, the kind of importance Sophie began giving Danny Casey was a little weird and ambitious. She had created for herself a world of lies, where she fantasized about him and also made him the central character of her life. Most of her thoughts were impossible to turn into reality. This is the reason her fantasizing about Danny Casey is wrong and her ambitions worthless.

OR

It is indeed true that our native language is part of our culture and we are proud of it. One’s native language provides him with a sense of being rooted and pride. In the story ‘The Last Lesson’, the presence of the village elders in the classroom of M. Hamel’s last lesson is proof the same fact.

After an order from Berlin enforcing that only German be taught in the school, M. Hamel told his students about his last class of French, their native language. The announcement left many in shock and dismay for two reasons – one that they would have to learn German now instead of their mother tongue, and second because it would also mean the last day of teaching by M. Hamel, who would soon be replaced by another teacher.

It was for the same reason that in M. Hamel’s last French class, some of the elderly people from the village occupied the last seats of the classroom. They wanted to pay a tribute to the teacher who had delivered forty years of service, while at the same time regarding in deep respect their native language, a prominent part of their culture and history.