Question

The wounded soldiers in the story are "in another country"in the sense of being out of combat._From which "other country"besides the war are they separated? How is the exclusion of these soldiers from these"other countries"important to the theme of the story?

Answer 1

Answer:

First of all, our narrator is not only figuratively in another country due to being taken out of combat; he is also literally in another country- he is an American, fighting in Enrope, his wounds being treated in ltaly, and while at first this doesn't distinguish him mush from.

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Answer 2

First and foremost, our narrator is not only figuratively in "another country" as a result of being taken out of combat; he is literally in another country as well - he is American fighting in Europe, and his wounds are being treated in Italy.

The exclusion of these soldiers from these "other countries" is crucial to the story's theme.

• The narrator is somewhat estranged from the other wounded soldiers because he comes from a different place and military organization than theirs, and he does not appear to have displayed the same level of bravery and patriotism as the others.
• The American is further distinguished when he realizes that he could never have performed the feats that the others did to earn their medals - at night, he admits to himself that he is "very afraid to die." His medaled friends, he claims, were like "hunting hawks," fierce and well-trained, whereas he was not. This is another aspect of the "other country" in which the American finds himself - where these men possess and demonstrate these qualities, our narrator does not.
• The major in the hospital with the injured hand is isolated in yet another way: he has become the victim of one of the war's ironies, in that he has survived while his wife, who stayed at home, has not. The major is unable to bear his grief, and we see that he is also stuck "in another country,"

All of these isolating factors are examples of how war affects individuals. And circumstances and expectations color these things differently in each country and within each individual. Everyone suffers losses.

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