Question

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In this excerpt, the author writes about a scene in a war hospital. Read the excerpt and then answer the questions:

A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, one single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought when such things are possible. It must all be lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.

Look again at the last sentence of the excerpt. In your own words, explain briefly what you think this sentence means.

Answer 1

People who are in a hospital are fighting a war for their lives. Countries that fight are fighting at the cost of their lives. Many people find their loved ones in the morgue of the hospital. 

Answer 2

The sentence "A hospital alone shows what war is" means within hospitals you can see the reality of war - human beings suffering, bleeding, and with bodies broken into many pieces. Actually, even though there are accounts of war written all the time, and war has always existed, the author cannot believe that such torment still continues, and that there are people in hospitals fighting for their lives in pain every day as a result of war.