In Another Country

The short story "in another country" is about patriotism, a term which rudimentarily means: deep love to one's own country. It is, however, just a part of a greater concept, love, which manifests itself, throughout the story, in different forms; love to a friend, love to a spouse and even to one's own country.

When we are first exposed to the story, with the vivid imaginary of the weather, we feel how cold it is, and how warm are the `roasted chestnuts' that we actually desire some. Moreover, it is very delightful to share the experience of the speaker when `the electric lights came on, and it was pleasant along the streets looking in the windows'. To ponder over the captioned imaginary, we will discover that it refers to human life in terms of being fraught with intriguing experience of love of all sorts or not. Life is bitterly cold, vacant and enfolded in darkness. By the emergence of love in all its forms, everything will emphatically change. The `electric light' in the dark streets has changed the speaker's experience into a pleasant one - when life is dark and, then, is lightened by the candle of love, it changes dramatically. Food Appetite is also satisfied by the `chestnuts' and any one without a solitary nature is also satisfied by accompanying their friends in order to have security, especially when they are foreigners- love satisfies any living creature physically and spiritually. Thus we can conclude that it is very essential and like bread.

Patriotism is a substantial portion of love. However, it is not that easy to take in its meaning, it is far-reaching and extremely demanding of supreme sacrifices. A foreigner is not anticipated to be obliged to sacrifice his soul to another country, in lieu, to be detached, ...

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... This ultimately resembles a country with a supreme military power which interferes in a country's problem pretending that its direct interference is meant to save other's lives, and later on it turns out to be that this serious interference's aim is to enable the first country to expand its power by taking over the infrastructure of the second.

The major says to the speaker that he should not put himself in a position to lose everything, assuming that the speaker would sacrifice himself to this country, but when he learns that the young man wants to get back to the states and get married he's awaken by the fact that he is talking to a foreigner. His wound, by his wife's death, is not cured by any machine like the wound in his hand.

Being detached from your own country, however, regardless of its negative connotation, stimulates patriotism in any individual.