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The story begins with an evocation of setting: at the lake shore. It is here where Nick and his father disembark from some vague location, presumably their side of town, and are rowed over to the...
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Before the incident at the Indian camp, Nick is still just a boy. Like a child he lays in his father's arms in the boat on the way across the cold lake. When his father tells him where they are...
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"Indian Camp" is the first of several short stories by Ernest Hemingway about the character Nick Adams. Nick is basically Hemingway's alter ego and many of the events in the stories are...
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The thing that Nick's father puts in the basin is the placenta. The placenta is an organ that feeds the baby in the womb, and is usually delivered after the baby is born. The fact that Hemingway...
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The only reason given in the text for the Indian man to kill himself in Hemingway's short story "Indian Camp" is because, as the doctor puts it, the man "couldn't stand things." Because of a leg...
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That’s a great question. A big part of Hemingway’s style is that he shows us the facts of the situation without explaining what they mean. The key to understanding this question is noticing the...
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"Indian Camp" is one of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories; and, like other Nick Adams stories, it is a tale of initiation into the realities of culture-clash, birth, and death. After an Indian woman...
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'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway is thought of as a story of initiation because it contains elements of 'growing up,' entering manhood as a 'rite of passage' or being introduced to something for...
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The narrative of "Indian Camp" involves the initiation of Nick Adams into the world of adults as he accompanies his physician father to an Indian camp where Dr. Adams performs a Cesarean section...
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There are two conflicts in Hemingway's "Indian Camp": Civilized Behavior vs. Savage Behavior and Innocence vs. Maturity. Civilized Behavior vs. Savage Behavior Nick Adams accompanies his...
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The baby's parents both live at the camp; the mother, made delirious by a difficult pregnancy, is a young Indian woman, who bites Nick's Uncle George on the arm; the father is confined to the hut...
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lips. Upon which demonstration, I saw the light-complexioned young reglan online. Teuton, Heinrich M?hler, grow restless, as if he did not like it. He buy caffeine.
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well,i think the doctor was not honest for his own child.because he was racist doctor,he did not tell his bad actions over the indians to his son.But he saied that her crying was nothing for him.
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One interpretation of the cabin is that it signifies an entryway into a very different world, one which Nick in particular is very unfamiliar with. There is a weird sense of detachment as his...
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In "Indian Camp," one of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Nick's dad--a doctor--takes Nick with him to a camp so that he can help an Indian woman with a difficult delivery. Nick does not seem to be...
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Ernest Hemingway, known for his concise "plain" style, is credited with creating the new American hero--someone who has a code of honor, is thoroughly disillusioned, craves adventure, and who...
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The closest Hemingway comes to answering this question directly in the story is Nick's father's reply when Nick asks him why the man killed himself: "I don't know, Nick. He couldn't stand things, I...
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At that moment in the story's conclusion, Nick does feel certain that he will never die. The psychology of his feelings is no doubt complex. First of all, Nick is young. The young generally view...
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syphilis for perfect day for... and gangrene for the indian camp
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For one thing, students can learn the profundity of Shakespeare's Hamlet: " There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" Or Shelley's words: "All spirits are enslaved which serve...
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1. Nick's relationship with his dad is compliant. Nick follows his dad seemingly without argument to a remote Indian camp to assist his father in a difficult delivery. From Nick's questions,...
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First, Nick and his father do have a positive relationship in the sense that Nick's dad obviously wants to spend time with his son and wants to teach him about life and helping others. One gets...
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In "Indian Camp", Nick is still a young boy. Therefore he sees the actions of his father and uncle through their eyes and not his own. The fact that he would feel "as if he would never die" at the...
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Both we, as readers, and Nick, as a character, can potentially learn from the events in "Indian Camp." This story develops many themes that are common in the Nick Adams stories. One of...
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I think one of the most important things to learn from the story is the clash of cultures that Hemingway depicts in the story. Nick's father is totally obvious to the pain the Indian woman is...
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Nick admires his father and seems very close to him. At the end of the story, he is crossing the lake back to shore after witnessing a senseless death, caused by Nick's father. His tries to console...
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At first the father apologizes to Nick for putting Nick through such " an awful mess". He tells Nick that women generally don't have such a hard time delivering babies and explains that he doesn't...
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Nick is curious. He cannot understand the difference between his father's reaction and that of the husband. But the reader can understand that Nick's when Nick's father says the woman's screams...
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If you look closely at the interaction between Uncle George and the Indians, there is a good chance that he is the actual father of the baby. In the first scene uncle George has cigar and is giving...
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The story is really about a clash of cultures. The doctor was white and delivered the baby but really didn't care about the horrible pain the mother was feeling. He was so detached that he barely...
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"Indian Camp" was first published in the April 1924 issue of the literary journal Transatlantic. A year later, it was included in Hemingway's first book published in the United States, a...
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Uncle George is a symbolizes the prejudice of American society against Indian culture. When the pregnant Indian woman bites him, George calls her a “damn squaw.” Her “assault” on him is an...
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Hemingway's story represents a clash of cultures. For example, as the natives lead Nick, his father, and uncle back to the encampment, the Objiwa and their white visitors walk "into the woods...
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You don't ask a specific question about Nick's character, so I'll give you the highlights. If you need more information than what I give you, go to the link below for the details. This story...
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Hemingway's "Indian Camp" revolves around the idea of American values imposed on Native American culture. In the story, Nick Adams, his doctor father, and uncle are called to an Indian encampment...
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Well I think mainly, its a form of denial. It's easy for Nick to think that death will never happen to him, because the deaths he's just seen doesn't remind him of himself, or anyone he knows....
