In Another Country

In Another arena Themes * Wounded * The patients leg seems to be broken and he is in therapy to fix it. * The tierce boys who also go to the hospital are wounded in some way, one has a broken nose and his face is deformed. * The doctors wife died so he is wounded emotionally and mentally. * devoid * Author says he is detached from everything and nothing held them unitedly except for the hospital. Literary Devices/Style * Anaphora * and the wind blew their tails. The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wing and the wind turned their feathers.It was a cool fall and the wing came down from the mountains. (206) * We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and there were different ship canal of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the ways were alongside canals, but they were long, Anyways though you crossed a bridge across a canal to enter the hospital. There was a alternative of three bridges. On one of them a woman sol d roasted chestnuts. It was lovesome, standing in frontofhercharcoal fire, and the chestnuts were warm afterward in your pocket. (206) * Punctuation (commas) * They were all three from Milan, and one of them was to be a lawyer, and one was to be a painter, and one had intended to be a soldier, and after we were finished with the machines, sometimes we walked back together to the Cafe Cova, which was next door to the Scala. (207) * Author uses dialogue to develop the story to a greater extent and include more insight on what each character is dealing with. * Author also uses his own thoughts to describe what he is feeling and it unravels the other characters personality as well.