The idea that is important in the story, as suggested by the kinds of sentences the boys produced, is the idea that the narrator felt limited creatively in Sampson's class. The fact that most students resorted to mundane and ordinary sentences indicates a lack of inspiration or creativity, reflecting the environment of the classroom under Sampson's teaching.
Read the passage from "A School Story" telling about Sampson's class exercise.
Now, on this occasion he was telling us how to express remembering in Latin: and he ordered us each to make a sentence bringing in the verb memini, "I remember." Well, most of us made up some ordinary sentence such as "I remember my father," or "He remembers his book," or something equally uninteresting: and I dare say a good many put down memino librum meum, "I remember my book," and so forth.
The passage explains the kinds of sentences the boys produced. What idea do these sentences suggest that is important in the story?
A School Story
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the idea that the boys know Sampson as a strict disciplinarian
the idea that the boys know Sampson as a strict disciplinarian
the idea that something remembered is a key to Sampson's behavior
the idea that something remembered is a key to Sampson's behavior
the idea that the narrator is not very good at remembering Latin sentences
the idea that the narrator is not very good at remembering Latin sentences
the idea that the narrator felt limited creatively in Sampson's class
the idea that the narrator felt limited creatively in Sampson's class
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