The swimming contest” ends with the word “losers.” what do you think the author means for readers to understand was lost?

The correct answer is the following.

With the word “loss” the author wants the readers to understand that in the end, there was no victory at all for him. Due to the circumstances and the dead of Abdul-Karim, the author was there with his people, contemplating Karim’s body knowing that they were losers.

Part of the excerpt says: “When he saw me coming up the officer said “We’ve lost the information. Dang it! They killed that Arab of yours. We’ve lost it, I said.” Then the author goes to the body of Abdul-Karim’s body and turned it over. The author says: “He looked as though he had seen me swimming in the pool a few moments ago. His was not the expression of a man who had lost. There, in the courtyard, it was I, all of us, who were the losers.”

Benjamin Tammuz was the writer of the short story “The Swimming Contest”. He was a Russian writer, journalist, and novelist that migrated to Palestina when he was five-years-old. His short story was published in the anthology “50 Stories of Israel”.  

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