Indian Camp free essay sample

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 to think more about what his stories are about and what the meaning with his story is. Indian Camp is a great example of this. Ernest Hemingway said in his early writing career: â€Å"I love reading a book that dazzles me over and over again. We will write a custom essay sample on Indian Camp or any similar topic specifically for you Do Not WasteYour Time HIRE WRITER Only 13.90 / page † I think this quote shows us how Ernest Hemingway writes. And in the short history Indian Camp, there are also aspects that challenge the reader, and makes the reader think about it over and over again. Indian Camp is a story that takes place near a beach in media res. The meaning of media res is that is throws the reader directly into the actions of the story without any explanations. The main character in the story is a boy called Nick, and then there is his father and uncle. Mainly, we are interested in these three characters but also an Indian women and a male Indian. Nick is sweet kid that doesn’t know that much about life. He is likely pretty young and at the beginning of the story he sticks to his father. Nick does not know what it means to be born or to die. But Nicks father who is doctor, take him to a camp where a pregnant woman has gone into labor. Its not just Nick and his father who goes to camp, Nicks uncle George is already in the camp when they arrive. Uncle George is handing out cigars (page 2 line 3) to the Indians and then he helps Nicks father and the woman to give birth. During the giving birth the Indian woman bites Uncle Georges arm. (page 3 line 34) After the woman has given birth to her baby son, we find a male Indian death inside a hut. He has taken his own life with a razor blade. Nick sees this and then change his character. He begins to ask his father about death and birth. Nick and his father then takes off again and you can clearly see a change in Nick. Since they arrived in the boat Nick was stuck to his father and on the ride home, he sits by him selve and probably thinking about what he has experienced. The father is upset that his son has seen what he saw and his regrets that he brought Nick with him. Uncle George stayed in the camp with the Indians. The story ends with Nick got his horizons extended about life and death, but still the story ends with his guts telling him that he will never die. I have chosen to look at the story in the way that I think Uncle George knows the Indians more than what we are told by Hemingway. I think that Uncle George is the father of the baby being born and that is why the male Indian commits suicide. He is embarrassed by the situation that his wife or girlfriend has been with a caucasian man. This is also why Uncle George hands out, cigars to the Indians. Its a traditon in the United States to hand out cigars when you are expecting a child. The story follows a chronological way of being told. A curious fact is that the story begins and ends at the same place, which is in a boat. The ending is semi-open because it leaves lots of unanswered questions for the reader to think about. Indian Camp is told from the point of view of an omniscient third person narrator, this type of narrator is identified when we notice that the conjugation of all verbs is done in the third person of singular, and that the exclusion of the word â€Å"I† is done from the beginning to the end of the storytelling.