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The Hero

ICSE · Class 10 · English Literature-Treasure Chest ( Poems and Short Stories)

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Poet and Poem at a Glance

  • Siegfried Sassoon lived from 1886 to 1967.
  • He satirised the patriotic pretensions of people who supported a war driven by jingoism.
  • The poem is a war poem and also an anti-war poem.
2

Main Characters and Their Roles

  • Jack is the dead soldier and the mother’s son.
  • The Mother is old, has weak eyes and white hair, and believes her son died gloriously.
  • The Brother Officer visits the mother and tells her the news.
3

Important Quoted Lines

  • "Jack fell as he'd have wished," is spoken by the Mother at the beginning.
  • "The Colonel writes so nicely." is also spoken by the Mother.
  • "We mothers are so proud Of our dead soldiers." shows the mother’s pride.
4

Themes

  • The myth of the glorious soldier is exposed as false.
  • The poem shows the reality of modern warfare as brutal and uncaring.
  • Compassion can appear even through lies.

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The mother believes Jack died asThe mother accepts the official ideaJack panickedThe Brother Officer tells the motherThe final line presents a terrible

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