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Rushing to school at the beginning of the story, Franz considers skipping class all together to dawdle outdoors, especially given that he hasn’t learned the rule for participles assigned to him by his stern teacher, M. Hamel. Though he doesn’t act on it, Franz’s overwhelming desire to skip school suggests his failure to value his education. Rather than viewing schoolwork as important or edifying, he seems to view it as boring drudgery, as suggested in his assertion that playing outdoors was “much more tempting than the rule for participles.”
His reference to the Prussian soldiers drilling behind the sawmill is…