In Another Country
by Ernest Hemingway (excerpts)
Excerpt
1
"In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it
any more. It was cold in the fall in Mian and the dark came very
early. Then the electric lights came on, and it was pleasant along
the streets looking in the windows. There was much game
hanging outside the shops, and the snow powdered in the fur of
the foxes and the wind blew their tails. The deer hung stiff and
heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind and the wind
turned their feathers. It was a cold fall and the wind came down
from the mountains."
Excerpt 2
The people hated us because we were officers, and from a wine-
shop someone called out, "A basso gli ufficiali" as we passed.
Another boy who walked with us sometimes and made us five
wore a black silk handkerchief across his face because he had no
nose then and his face was to be rebuilt. He had gone out to the
front from the military academy and been wounded within an hour
after he had gone into the front line for the first time. They rebuilt
his face, but he came from a very old family and they could never
get the nose exactly right. He went to South America and worked
in a bank. But this was a long time ago, and then we did not any
of us know how it was going to be afterward. We only knew then
that there was always the war, but that we were not going to
it any more."
Select the correct answer.
What important fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the bolded sentences in the excerpts from "In
Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway?
OA. It establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have physically left the warfront, the war continues
to haunt them psychologically
OB. It shows the gradual loss of hope and growing depression of the wounded soldiers and their need for
○ C.
O D.
OE
distractions.
It establishes the wounded soldiers' determination to shun war and disobey military commands to return to the
front after they recover.
It shows the wounded soldiers' sadness and disappointment at the lack of gratitude from the people they
risked their lives to protect
It shows the wounded soldiers' belief that the war would never end, even as thousands of soldiers were killed
or wounded and sent to hospitals