30 POINTS PLSSS HELP: Read this passage from “Two Friends.” What contrast is the author making between the two French friends and their enemies, the Prussians? Monsieur Sauvage, pointing to the heights, murmured: "The Prussians are up yonder!" And the sight of the deserted country filled the two friends with vague misgivings. The Prussians! They had never seen them as yet, but they had felt their presence in the neighborhood of Paris for months past--ruining France, pillaging, massacring, starving them. And a kind of superstitious terror mingled with the hatred they already felt toward this unknown, victorious nation. "Suppose we were to meet any of them?" said Morissot. "We'd offer them some fish," replied Monsieur Sauvage, with that Parisian light-heartedness which nothing can wholly quench.

The contrast the author is making between the two French friends and their enemies the Prussians is showing that the French are jovial and friendly people and the Prussians are a bunch of savages.

Explanation:

From the passage given, the author is making a contrast between the French friends and the Prussians by depicting the Prussians are destroyers, pillagers, and generally savages, and the French are filled with humor and friendliness.

This is highlighted by the author describing the Prussians as people who are "ruining France, pillaging, massacring and starving them" while the French contrast is shown when Morissot asked what they would do if they met any Prussian and Monsieur Sauvage replied that they would offer them some fish which shows that they are a friendly and jovial people.

reading poetry is challenging when you don't have or very little of social context and culture schema.

solution: read the introduction, the norm, or even explaination if you still dont get it.