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viva [34]
3 years ago
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What is the main theme of the excerpt? Read this excerpt from Guy de Maupassant's "Mother Savage" about an old woman who takes i

n four Prussian soldiers while her son is away fighting in the French army: But the old woman thought always of her own son, so tall and thin, with his hooked nose and his brown eyes and his heavy mustache which made a roll of black hair upon his lip. She asked every day of each of the soldiers who were installed beside her hearth: "Do you know where the French marching regiment, No. 23, was sent? My boy is in it." They invariably answered, "No, we don't know, don't know a thing at all." And, understanding her pain and her uneasiness—they who had mothers, too, there at home—they rendered her a thousand little services. She loved them well, moreover, her four enemies, since the peasantry have no patriotic hatred; that belongs to the upper class alone. The humble, those who pay the most because they are poor and because every new burden crushes them down; those who are killed in masses, who make the true cannon's prey because they are so many; those, in fine, who suffer most cruelly the atrocious miseries of war because they are the feeblest and offer least resistance—they hardly understand at all those bellicose ardors, that excitable sense of honor or those pretended political combinations which in six months exhaust two nations, the conqueror with the conquered.
A. mother’s love has no barriers.
B.In war, there are no winners.
C. The common man is not patriotic.
D.The poor suffer the most in war.
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2 answers:
tamaranim1 [39]3 years ago
8 0

D.The poor suffer the most in war.


The main theme from this excerpt is that the poor suffer the most in war.  This can be determined by how within the excerpt it is mentioned that it is “the humble, those who pay the most because they are poor” are “killed in masses” and are cannon fodder because “they are so many.”   It is further stated that the poor are feeble and offer the least resistance in wars because of an ignorance about the situation that led their respective nations to war.

inna [77]3 years ago
5 0
The central theme of this excerpt is that D) the poor suffer the most in the war. It shows that the lower classes do not understand patriotism and that they suffer the most losses in any war.
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