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1、Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.-author-dateSummary-of-In-Another-CountrySummary of In Another CountrySummary of In Another CountryIn In Another Country, a story wrote by Ernest Hemingway based on his own experience during the wo
2、rld war, the author shows that all the people, including soldiers are against the war through descriptions and dialogues of a group of wounded officers. The whole story happens mainly in four scenes: in a long street, in district, in the caf cova and in the hospital. In the cold fall, some soldiers
3、and I do not need to go back to battlefield again because we are wounded and come to Milan to receive treatments. Walking in the street and seeing game hanging outside the butlers, the images of dead bodied lying in the battlefield cant help presenting in our mind. All of us are of a bit lost.Four b
4、oys and I are treated in the same hospital. Sometimes we walk back together to the caf cova. When passed the communist quarter, people there call out, “down with the officers”. They attribute the cause of the war to us. Indeed, we do not like to fight either.Only one kind of people wound like to smi
5、le to us. They are caf girls. They are warm, enthusiastic and welcome our arrival not so much for they are patriotic as for they can earn money from us.Having learned that how did I get the medal, the three boys change their manner towards me. Because they had done very different thing to get their
6、medals, and I had been given the medal only for my nationality. We are no longer friends. I am ashamed and I would imagine myself having done the same things. However, it will never come true because I am afraid of death, and I hate wars.In the hospital, a major sits in a machine beside me. He does
7、not believe that the machine will make any effect in his disabled hand. But he still comes to hospital regularly. He talks to me by using Italian and always corrects my grammar. He can understand my fear of going back to the front, as he does not believe in bravery. His disabled hand, the death of his wife and other things he has lost make him become disappointed of life. He cant afford any other pains and he tells me not to get things which you will finally lose. Under that circumstance, even if the machine will cure his disability, he himself has lost hope to the life.-
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