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Nick's father is a doctor who goes to the Indian Camp to help a young Indian woman give birth to her baby. Towards Nick he is very caring and he seems to be a good father. | Nick's father is a doctor who goes to the Indian Camp to help a young Indian woman give birth to her baby. Towards Nick, he is very caring and he seems to be a good father. He brings his child Nick along on the outing, expecting to show him examples of life and work. He's a manly figure and responds to his reality with confidence. | ||
===Uncle George=== | ===Uncle George=== | ||
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===Indian Woman's Husband=== | ===Indian Woman's Husband=== | ||
The story | The story presents the spouse as a hapless spectator.{{sfn|Sipiora|2002|p=29}} He's profoundly tormented by his better half's shouts, yet can't offer her the assistance she needs.{{sfn|Sipiora|2002|p=29}} There's nothing left but to remain close by and witness Nick's dad's a hard yet effective treatment of her.{{sfn|Sipiora|2002|p=30}} This condition wears on him In the end, he cuts his own throat with a razor for some reason which has never been known.{{sfn|Sipiora|2002|p=30}} | ||
===Native Americans=== | ===Native Americans=== | ||
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==Metaphors== | ==Metaphors== | ||
Nick and his father set out for the Indian Camp during the nighttime and come back during the day. This is a [[metaphor]] for Nick not knowing what he is going to encounter and then coming out of the whole situation by learning a few life lessons. "Other metaphoric relationships (father and son, white man and Indian, middle-class and poor) serve important purposes in this compelling story"(34). | Nick and his father set out for the Indian Camp during the nighttime and come back during the day. This is a [[metaphor]] for Nick not knowing what he is going to encounter and then coming out of the whole situation by learning a few life lessons. "Other metaphoric relationships (father and son, white man and Indian, middle-class and poor) serve important purposes in this compelling story"(34). | ||
The story starts by covering Nick and different characters in the corner of the night as they plan for their excursion. For Nick, this excursion is into the obscure, at last, to observe birth and death. The story builds up the comparability between birth and passing by portraying both as vicious. The lady in the story is in pain because her child is brought into the world in a breech position, and for quite a long time she has been suffering. While her shouts are agonizing, Nick's dad recommends that this aggravation is a characteristic piece of the birthing process. Besides, since she can't convey the child normally, Nick's dad works on her without the sedative. When she delivers the child, Nick's dad keeps an eye on the man in the top bunk, he tracks down a horrifying scene, the man had cut his throat. It appears to be while watching the woman giving birth made him kill himself, the birth and death is a metaphor.(28-31)(34) | |||
== Plot Summary == | == Plot Summary == | ||
“Indian Camp” is a narrative about a child named Nick going on a journey to experience the aspects of life and death. Nick’s father has been requested to help an Indian lady who has been in painful labor for two days. His father takes his son, Nick, and his brother, George, to witness the birth of a child. The woman in labor is located on an island. She’s sheltered in a shanty, laying on a wooden bunk bed. The father delivers the baby in a horrendous way, causing suffering to the lady throughout the process. Afterward, the father discovers that the woman's husband committed suicide by slitting his throat. Nick witnesses the whole situation. During the journey back home, Nick asks his father questions about the incidents, and His father explains to him what happened. After the conversation, Nick begins to have the sensibility of bravery and immortality. He feels, “that he would never die”. | |||
==Major Themes== | ==Major Themes== | ||
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There is also the father and son theme. The father have wish to educate his son, his son understood very well and also at the end asking questions instead of just receive his father's information." Do ladies always have such a hard time having babies, why did he kill himself Daddy, is dying hard?"(55,60) | There is also the father and son theme. The father have wish to educate his son, his son understood very well and also at the end asking questions instead of just receive his father's information." Do ladies always have such a hard time having babies, why did he kill himself Daddy, is dying hard?"(55,60) | ||
== | The story gives Nick two options for reacting to ladies' torment-and the experience in this story is suffering. The primary option is to relate to the lady, as the Indian's better half decides to do. He feels for her so that he can presently don't bear her aggravation and closures his life.' Hemingway makes it her experiencing that inconveniences the man.{{sfn|Tyler|2006|p=38}} | ||
A theme of “Indian Camp” is growth.{{sfn|Hays|2013|p=207}} Nick and his father Dr. Adams are on vacation, when he is called to have a women deliver a child. Dr. Adams decides to bring his son who we can tell is preadolescent to witness his work. We know this about Nick because, “Nick’s willingness to have his father on the ride across the lake, contact teenagers are more likely to eschew.”{{sfn|Hays|2013|p=208}} | |||
This would be shocking for anyone to watch, especially a young boy. At the beginning before the operation begins Nick is asking questions about what is happening to the Indian women. By the end of it we see Nick’s “Looking away so as not to see what his father was doing,” “indicates his attempt to shut his eyes to what he has already witnessed.”{{sfn|Hays|2013|p=209}} | |||
There is no telling what it would do to a child to see his father operate in those conditions and all while being asked to assist. After doing so, they go to check on the father, to discover he is dead after committing suicide. This provided another “shock to the boy and adding to the quick birth-to-death cycle.”{{sfn|Hays|2013|p=209}} At the end of the story Nick is no longer clinging to his father on the way back to the camp showing he is no longer the scared boy clinging to his father, like he was before.{{sfn|Hays|2013|p=210}} | |||
== Citations == | |||
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{{ | ==Works Cited== | ||
See also: [[/Annotated Bibliography/]]. | |||
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* {{Cite book | last =Hays | first =Peter | date ={{date|2013}} | chapter = Teaching 'Indian Camp' | title = Fifty Years of Hemingway Criticism | editor-last = Hays | editor-first = Peter | publisher = Scarecrow Press| pages = 207-210 }} | |||
* {{Cite book | last = Hemingway | first = Ernest | date = 2002 | chapter = Indian Camp | title = Reading and Writing about Literature | editor-last = Sipiora | editor-first = Phillip | publisher = Prentice Hall | location = Upper Saddle Creek, NJ | pages = 28–31 }} | |||
* {{cite journal |last=Robinson |first=Daniel |title=Cultural Appropriation, Acculturation, and Fatherhood: A Reading of ‘Indian Camp’ |url= |journal=CEAMagazine: A Journal of the College English Association |volume=28 |issue= |date={{date|2020}} |pages=39-50 |access-date= }} | |||
* {{cite journal | |||
| last1 = Tyler | |||
| first1 = Lisa | |||
| date = January 1, 2006 | |||
| title = Dangerous Families and Intimate Harm in Hemingway's 'Indian Camp' | |||
| journal = Texas Studies in Literature and Language | |||
| volume = 48 | |||
| issue = 1 | |||
| pages = 37-53 | |||
}} | }} | ||