Hubert Rochereau's childhood bedroom is a kind of time capsule of 1918, the year he
died. He was just twenty-one years old at the time.
During World War I, Rochereau was a French soldier who was deployed to the battlefield
in Belgium. After his death, Rochereau's parents requested that his bedroom remain
untouched for the next five hundred years. To this day, the room is filled with Rochereau's
personal belongings, such as schoolbooks, his childhood bed, and his knife.
The current owner of the house-though not a relative of the Rochereau family-has kept
the room frozen in time. He says that, although he feels little connection with the young
soldier, "It's part of the history of the house, so I keep it."
What is the text's main purpose?
to persuade future owners of the Rochereau house to keep Hubert's room
untouched
to introduce the audience to Hubert Rochereau and his frozen in time
bedroom
to prove how much Hubert's parents loved him
to illustrate how young some of the soldiers were in World War 1