Question

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Which two sentences in this excerpt from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country" show that medals and awards in war don’t always bring soldiers glory and acceptance?
The boys at first were very polite about my medals and asked me what I had done to get them. I showed them the papers, which were written in very beautiful language and full of fratellanza and abnegazione , but which really said, with the adjectives removed, that I had been given the medals because I was an American. After that their manner changed a little toward me, although I was their friend against outsiders. I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals. I had been wounded, it was true; but we all knew that being wounded, after all, was really an accident.

Answer 1

Two sentences from Hemingway's story illustrate that war medals do not necessarily equate to respect or understanding from others; they are related to both the circumstances of their awards and the recognition of peers.

Step-by-step explanation:

The two sentences from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country" that show medals and awards in war don’t always bring soldiers glory and acceptance are:

"I showed them the papers, which were written in very beautiful language and full of fratellanza and abnegazione, but which really said, with the adjectives removed, that I had been given the medals because I was an American."

and "I was a friend, but I was never really one of them after they had read the citations, because it had been different with them and they had done very different things to get their medals."

These sentences highlight the protagonist’s realization that the honor perceived by others regarding his medals was diminished upon their understanding of the relatively arbitrary reasons for which he received them, compared to the actions of his comrades.

Answer 2

Answer: “I had been given the medals because I was an American.” and “I was never really one of them after they had read the citations”

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