Some questions from the English Patient

[sherishine]

I think "be eager to use him" get quite close to the meaning.

Thank you so much!O(∩_∩)O~

[sherishine]

Question5, (still from The English Patient)

"Nurses too became shell-shocked from the dying around them. Or from something as small as a letter. They would carry a severed arm down a hall, or swab at blood that never stopped, as if the wound were a well, and they began to believe in nothing, trusted nothing. They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded. The way Hana broke in Santa Chiara Hospital when an official walked down the space between a hundred beds and gave her a letter that told her of the death of her father. "




Could you tell me what the "geography "means?