Question

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select the correct text in the passage.
in this excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “in another country,” which sentence shows the low self - esteem of the soldiers and their belief that being a soldier has nothing to do with bravery?
the three with the medals were like hunting - hawks; and i was not a hawk, although i might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted; they, the three, knew better and so we drifted apart. but i stayed good friends with the boy who had been wounded his first day at the front, because he would never know now how he would have turned out; so he could never be accepted either, and i liked him because i thought perhaps he would not have turned out to be a hawk, either.

Explanation:

This sentence reveals the narrator's low self-esteem (viewing himself as not a "hawk"—a symbol of bravery/valor) and the shared belief that soldiering isn't tied to bravery: the wounded boy is unaccepted because he can't prove his courage, and the narrator identifies with him as someone who also wouldn't have been brave ("a hawk"). This directly reflects their lack of self-worth and rejection of the link between soldiering and bravery.

Answer:

But I stayed good friends with the boy who had been wounded his first day at the front, because he would never know now how he would have turned out; so he could never be accepted either, and I liked him because I thought perhaps he would not have turned out to be a hawk either.