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===Nick's father===
===Nick's 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.
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 in the textbook presents the husband as a helpless man who is deeply pained by his wife's screaming. He is unable to provide help which she needs. At the end, he cuts his own throat with a razor for some reason which never been known.(40)
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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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}}
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.{{cn}} 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.”{{cn}} 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.”{{cn}} 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.”{{cn}} 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.{{cn}}
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 ==
== Citations ==