in another country 5

doctors role in the story

-not being honest -talking down

meaning of title in "In another country"

Double meaning: -once you come back from war, you are basically "in another country" because your not the same person (only ppl you can relate to are veterans from the war) -physically in another country

why is the picture of the better hand fake?

bc the major new all along that they were the first to use the machines

another theme:

detachment: the soldiers have lived with death their whole life, and seen a lot of injury

pov

first person

why did the major get upset with Nick

he can't speak Italian the right way

what was wrong with the major?

he had a shriveled hand

why was the narrator an outsider?

he was American

who tells Nick not to marry? why?

if you marry, theres a risk that they could leave, get a divorce, ect.... -he says this because his wife just died (looses the use of his hand and his wife)

who were the boys that came to the hospital each day?

lawyer, painter, soldier

symbolism with hawk

narrator calls the other soldiers hawks because he felt that they were braver than him. He might have appeared to them like a hawk, but he wasn't

one of the themes of story:

randomness of war; the boy who got his face blown off

themes:

sense of loss (hand and wife), detachment (their emotions after the war+ he wasn't a hawk), fear of dying,

what is the one thing that kept the soldiers all together?

the hospital

who did not believe in bravery?

the major

who is the fencer

the major

what is the irony in the major's wife's death?

the major could have died in the war, but his wife dies of phenomena

who does the narrator stay friends with

they boy with the broken face, because he wasn't a hawk either