VOA标准英语2010年-Haitian Earthquake Victim's Sketches S

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A patient's view of the devastation¹ in Haiti and his appreciation² for the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort are attracting the attention of those on board.

The black-and-white pencil drawing, with its hard lines and delicate shading, is signed in the lower right corner in neat penmanship: Hugues Larose.  But Thionta Buckner, who helps nurses in the surgical³ medical ward⁴ of the Comfort, says they know Larose by another name.

"[He is]the patient we like to call 'The Artist,'" she said.
 
Larose came to the hospital ship about one week after a concrete wall fell and crushed him during the earthquake, injuring his right leg and fracturing his left clavicle.
 
"Most of the patients we get in, when they first get here, they are still crying about what happened and they are in pain and distress⁵. Him, when he first got here, he was very quiet," added Buckner.

But, after a few days, Larose expressed himself in a different way. A Lieutenant⁶ Commander on the ward says Larose asked him for paper and a pencil, which the Lieutenant Commander had to sharpen with a pocket knife.

The Lieutenant Commander says he was moved by the drawing he saw a few hours later, and he photocopied⁷ it for a colleague.
 
Before long, copies were taped to doorways⁸ and left on tables for others to view. The beauty of the shading, the horrors of the scene and Larose's representation of the U.S. Military were subjects of conversation from the dining hall to the berths⁹.
 
In the image's foreground, a partially¹⁰ dressed woman is trapped beneath a fallen utility pole and another person has half-escaped from a collapsed¹¹ house. Web-like cracks splinter the concrete, juxtaposed with the straight and uniform lines of the cinder¹² blocks.
 
One person sits in the center of the street, while a dozen others appear to scramble¹³, some with arms in the air, toward the sea, where the Navy hospital ship Comfort and other U.S. ships with helicopters on deck are waiting to help.  Larose says the Comfort means a lot to him because without it, more of his Haitian brothers would have died.
 
Reclining on a lower bunk¹⁴ in the ward, with a dark green sling¹⁵ across his shoulder, Larose shows his sketches¹⁶. His easel appears to be a metal board that could be used for patients' charts.
 
Before the earthquake, Larose made his living painting scenes from folklore¹⁷ and seascapes. These brightly colored scenes show people dancing, cleaning, cooking, and playing instruments on the porches of pink and yellow homes, with sailboats pulling up to the shore in the background. 

Now Larose uses pencil on white paper to illustrate¹⁸ the disaster.  Larose says sketching¹⁹ helps him cope. Haiti will be re-constructed, he says, but there will always be his drawings as a reminder²⁰ of the earthquake's devastation.