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Flamingo & Vistas — Complete Quick Reference
Main Character | Theme | Moral | Timeline | Author/Poet
Setting | Key Terms | CBSE Board Exam 2025-26
Class XII | CBSE Board Exam 2025-26
English Core — Flamingo & Vistas
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
, FLAMINGO — PROSE
The Last Lesson
Author / Poet Setting
Alphonse Daudet Alsace, France (Franco-Prussian War era, 1870s)
Main Characters Theme
Franz (narrator), M. Hamel (French teacher), Loss of language, patriotism, the value of one's
Prussian authorities mother tongue
Moral / Message Timeline
We often value things only when we are about to 1870s, during the Prussian occupation of Alsace
lose them. Language is identity. and Lorraine
Key Terms
Prussian order, bulletin board, M. Hamel's iron ruler
Lost Spring
Setting
Author / Poet
Seemapuri (Delhi) and Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh),
Anees Jung contemporary India
Main Characters Theme
Saheb-e-Alam, Mukesh, the narrator (Anees Jung), Child labour, poverty, broken dreams, social
bangle-makers of Firozabad inequality
Moral / Message
Timeline
Society's failure to protect its children robs them of
their spring — their youth and dreams. Contemporary India, post-independence era
Key Terms
Garbage scrounging, bangle industry, sahukars,
middlemen, moneylenders
Deep Water
Author / Poet Setting
William O. Douglas YMCA pool, Yakima Valley, Washington D.C., USA
Main Characters
Theme
William O. Douglas (narrator), a big boy who throws
him in, his instructor Conquering fear, determination, resilience
Flamingo & Vistas — Complete Quick Reference
Main Character | Theme | Moral | Timeline | Author/Poet
Setting | Key Terms | CBSE Board Exam 2025-26
Class XII | CBSE Board Exam 2025-26
English Core — Flamingo & Vistas
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
, FLAMINGO — PROSE
The Last Lesson
Author / Poet Setting
Alphonse Daudet Alsace, France (Franco-Prussian War era, 1870s)
Main Characters Theme
Franz (narrator), M. Hamel (French teacher), Loss of language, patriotism, the value of one's
Prussian authorities mother tongue
Moral / Message Timeline
We often value things only when we are about to 1870s, during the Prussian occupation of Alsace
lose them. Language is identity. and Lorraine
Key Terms
Prussian order, bulletin board, M. Hamel's iron ruler
Lost Spring
Setting
Author / Poet
Seemapuri (Delhi) and Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh),
Anees Jung contemporary India
Main Characters Theme
Saheb-e-Alam, Mukesh, the narrator (Anees Jung), Child labour, poverty, broken dreams, social
bangle-makers of Firozabad inequality
Moral / Message
Timeline
Society's failure to protect its children robs them of
their spring — their youth and dreams. Contemporary India, post-independence era
Key Terms
Garbage scrounging, bangle industry, sahukars,
middlemen, moneylenders
Deep Water
Author / Poet Setting
William O. Douglas YMCA pool, Yakima Valley, Washington D.C., USA
Main Characters
Theme
William O. Douglas (narrator), a big boy who throws
him in, his instructor Conquering fear, determination, resilience
