Question

What does the underlined phrase in the following excerpt reveal about President Reagan’s attitude towards the Berlin Wall?

Yet it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly; here,
cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television
screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the
mind of the world. Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every
man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is
a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar.
A. He thought it represented the healing of German wounds from the war.
B. He thought it was unattractive compared to the rest of Berlin.
C. He thought it served as a persistent reminder to humanity of unjust laws.
D. He thought it showed how a once divided nation had been reunited.

Answer 1

C

Calling the wall a "scar" and saying people are "forced to look upon" it portrays the wall as an enduring wound — a visible, painful reminder of division and injustice, not something healed, attractive, or reunifying.