The Wound-Dresser

Question 1

ABOUT

Answer 1

• Qs young people ask an old man (main character) who saw the war in his own eyes.
• ask which best battle remebers most vividly
• old man, remeberes groans, pain

Question 2

themes

Answer 2

• humanism
• mercy
• compassion
• horrors of war

Question 3

summary

Answer 3

• old man he recounts to the children the various incidents of the Civil War. - At first he wanted to join the war himself but later decided to “sit by the wounded
  -a ground was drenched red by their blood.
  The poet carried bandages, sponges, etc. for dressing the wounds.
• Even as he dressed the wounds, the wounded soldiers cried with pain. The sympathy that the poet had for those suffering people was so much that he felt that he would even die if his death could save them.
  The 3rd section gives details of the different wounded soldiers