Journal 18

1) The significance of the title is shows someone being an outside. When he tries to learn Italian, he thinks it is easier but when the grammar comes along it is a lot harder. Even in rehabilitation, people think it is going to easy but when he comes to the actually rehabilitation it become harder. There are in Italy and they are all outsiders because of their injuries. They are outsiders because of their rank and how they are officers.
2) The character who represents “Hemingway Hero” is the major because he has a hard life. His hand was injured and he lost his wife. He deals with the most suffering and about his anger and resentment. He realizes his hand isn’t going to get better and even though losing his wife was hard, he is trying to fight hard to get over it. The major’s injury is a result of fighting and the narrator’s injury wasn’t all that big because he was hurt because he was American. The major has an emotional wound and a physical wound.
3) The photographs are fake and are not direct proof that these machines work. They are more of motivation things for the guys. The major’s reaction he that he looks at the window instead of the photos. He doesn’t have any hope and he doesn’t really focus on what the doctors gives he. He goes to isolation and he is focuses elsewhere. He is focused on the suffering and lost.