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    Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s Indian Camp Ernest Hemingway was born in the quiet town of Oak Park‚ Illinois‚ a suburb of Chicago‚ on July 21‚ the year of 1899. His father was a physician‚ and Ernest was the second of six children born to Dr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Hemingway. In the year 1921 Ernest Hemingway wrote the short story Indian Camp. Ernest Hemingway has a very special way of writing. He writes most often in short sentences and with few adjectives. His way of writing allows the reader

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    Summary One night‚ Dr. Adams is summoned to help an American Indian woman who has been in painful labor for two days. The doctor takes his young son‚ Nick‚ and his brother‚ George‚ to the American Indian camp on the other side of a northern Michigan lake. There‚ the doctor performs impromptu‚ improvised cesarean with a fishing knife‚ catgut‚ and no anesthetic to deliver the baby. Afterward‚ he discovers that the woman’s husband‚ who was in the bunk above hers‚ silently cut his throat during the

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    Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway From “In Our Time” (1925) Summary The story begins at the break of dawn as Nick‚ his father‚ and his Uncle George are rowed across a lake by some local Indians. They are on an emergency medical call. The boats arrive on shore and they soon come upon some shanties. Nick‚ his father‚ and his uncle enter the one nearest the road. Inside a pregnant Indian woman lies in agony on the lower berth of a bunk bed. She screams with pain and terror. Despite two days of excruciating

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    Indian Camp Indian Camp is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway in 1921. It is a part of a volume of short stories called “The Nick Adams stories” where the main character‚ Nick Adams‚ is an autobiographical inspired figure. In Indian Camp‚ Nick Adams is a young boy accompanying his father‚ Doctor Adams‚ and his uncle‚ George‚ to an Indian camp on the other side of a lake. Nick’s father is going to help a young Indian woman who is having problems delivering her baby. When they arrive the

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    Indian Camp” Essay In Hemingway’s short story “Indian Camp”‚ the use of light and dark symbolism is apparent throughout. Two different races are seen in the story‚ the white man‚ and the dark skinned Indians. The white man seems to be living the life‚ while the Indians live in a life of oppression and despair. The white man is clearly “superior” to the Indians‚ however Hemingway’s greater purpose of this symbolism is seen in the enlightenment of Nick Adams. When Nick Adams begins the story

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    Devin Westfall Professor Peter Faziani English 151 October 15‚ 2012 Hemingway’s Nick Adams “Three Shots” and “Indian Camp” In Hemingway’s Nick Adams “Three Shots” and “Indian Camp” Nick goes through some changes in his life. He goes from being scared that someday he must die to feeling quite sure that he will never die. In the short story “Three Shots” Nick‚ his father‚ and his uncle are camping and Nick remembers with shame how he had gotten scared thinking

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    Indian Camp”‚ by Ernest Hemingway‚ is a short story of initiation in which young Nick Adams accompanies his father‚ a physician‚ on a call to and African American or “Indiancamp‚ where the father delivers a baby by Cesarean section using only his jack-knife. The violence and pain of the birth contrast sharply with the ease of the suicide of the pregnant women’s husband‚ which was brought on by her screams and introduce Nick to the realities of birth and death. At the beginning of the story‚

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    Indian Camp The story ‘Indian Camp’ is written by Ernest Hemingway and its main plot is to show how children and adults are affected differently by certain experiences‚ and what personal implications this causes. ‘Indian Camp’ is about a son witnessing his father‚ a doctor‚ preforming a caesarean on an Indian woman in very primitive conditions. The experience changes the boy’s view upon life and death and forces him to grow up quicker than he is supposed to because he gets introduced to the cruelties

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    Indian Camp Analysis of Nick’s Father   	In Earnest Hemmingway’s story Indian Camp‚ from his first book In Our Time‚ there is a character named Henry refereed to in this story as Nick’s father. Nick’s father is a doctor. A closer look at Nick’s father reveals that he is quite a paradoxical figure. 	On one hand‚ Nick’s father appears to be a great father who is nurturing caring and wants only the best for his son. "Nick lay back with his fathers arms around him."

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    Indian camp Indian camp is set in North America‚ near St. Ignace close to Canada. We are not told directly when the story takes place‚ but because they don’t have any technology and they seem to be poor‚ could the story possibly take place in the beginning of the 20th century. Indian camp is realistic. It is not happening in an imaginary world‚ but in a real world. The reason we can see that is‚ because it take place in North America. The Indians in the camp are very poor. They live in

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