“Since that day, Father Kleinsorge has thought back to how queasy he had once been at the sight of pain, how someone else’s cut finger used to make him turn faint. Yet there in the park he was so benumbed that immediately after leaving this horrible sight he stopped on a path by one of the pools and discussed with a lightly wounded man whether it would be safe to eat the fat, two-foot carp that floated dead on the surface of the water. They decided, after some consideration, that it would be unwise.” (Pg. 52)
This passage is not too hard for me to understand, but it will be totally understandable if I knew some words, such as queasy, benumbed and wounded. That’s a big problem because maybe what I understand is not what the passage says.
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I looked up the word for you. Queasy mean feeling of nausea. The word benumbed mean inactive or numb.This mean a person was unable to move. The meaning of wounded is someone is suffering from injury.
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