Indian Camp (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1924
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: About 1910
- Setting: Michigan's upper peninsula
- Principal Characters: Nick Adams, Doctor Adams, Uncle George, An unnamed Indian, His pregnant wife
- Genres: Realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Suicide, Good and evil, Childbirth, Discoveries
- Locales: Michigan
The Story
“Indian Camp” is a story of initiation in which young Nick Adams accompanies his father, a physician, on a call to an Indian camp, where the father delivers a baby by cesarean section using only his jackknife. The violence and pain of the birth contrast sharply with the ease of the suicide of the pregnant woman's husband, brought on by her screams, and introduce Nick to the realities of birth and death.
The story begins in the dark, before sunrise, as Nick, his father, and Uncle George are rowed across the lake by some Indian men. Nick's father explains...
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