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Question
Why does the author say, ‘I never saw him look so tall’?
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Solution
- M. Hamel, the author's French teacher, had always scared him. He also didn't grasp what he was teaching.
- On the last day of his lecture, the narrator understood and remembered the final lesson.
- He admired M. Hamel's patriotism and acquired feelings of admiration for him. As he says. "I never saw him look so tall."
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