Analysis: Ernest Hemingway’s The Indian Camp Essay

The nearsighted story Indian Camp is written by Ernest Hemingway. It is written in 1921 and takes orient in North America. Indian Camp is about a young boy named Nick, who travels with his father and Uncle George to an Indian Camp to help an Indian girl, who has been in a painful labor for two days. Nicks father performs a very primitive cesarean, and in meantime the womans husband commits suicide by cutting his throat. My intention with this essay is first to make a charactersation of the most important characters of the story.Afterwards I would like to make a short analysis of the structure, narrator and language. And at last I intend to make an interpretation of the theme of Indian Camp. The main character of the story is Nick, and the comment of him is made implicit. We recognize that he is a boy, who has a great relationship with his father Nick lay back with his fathers arm near him. p. 1, l. 9. He is a young boy, about 8-10 years, because he is old enough to see the ces arean, but not the suicide. Nick is very brave, because he tackles the whole authority without crying and screaming.He thinks a lot and reflex on action, which is seen in the end, when he keeps asking about life and death. Nick is a complex character, because he goes through a development. In the beginning of the story he is sitting next to his father in the stern of the boat, and he doesnt really know what a birth is, but in the end he is sitting in front of his father in the boat and is sure about what life is. Nicks father is a flat character. He is middle-age since he has a son and a long education.He is proud of being a doctor, which is seen, when he teaches Nick about the birth. He cares a lot about his son, because he apologize him for taking him to the Indian Camp. He wants to avoid making him nervous, so he only tells him a few necessary things about the trip. Uncle George doesnt have an active role in the story. But it seems as if he has a friendly relationship with the Indians, because he is already in the camp in the beginning of the story, and he stays there after the birth. There are many a(prenominal) signs, that he might be the father of the baby.He stands next to the woman under the birth, and when she bites him, she smiles. Her husband commits suicide. He was maybe ashamed of his wife being unneurotic with another man. Another sign could be, that in America they have a tradition that you hand out a cigar, when you become a father. Uncle George gave both the Indians cigars. p. 2, l. 3. Ernest Hemingway quality of narrator and languages is foc utilize by, that we have to think self and read between the lines. He has used a 3th person omniscient narrator seen from Nicks point of view.But sometimes the narrator changes to someone elses point of view Nicks father is not the father but abruptly the doctor. Uncle George looked at his arm. p. 4, l. 10. Nick doesnt see this, because he isnt in the room. The language in Indian Camp is objective . There isnt used many adjectives and there is much direct speak. The whole story starts in a boat and ends in a boat. It has the structure office-out-home, where there at home is cosmos and out chaos. Nicks goes through his development, when he is out in chaos.The story starts in media-res and it has an open ending. Indian Camp has many themes. suppuration up is a good theme for this story, because Nick goes through the development from child to an adult. It could also be life and death, as a man dies and a baby is born. Another theme could be the bond between Nick and his father and how it clearly changes after the suicide. His father sees how important it is to protect the one you bang and therefore apologizes to Nick. Ernest Hemingways short story is about how a child deals the real tough life and also about the secession process from parents and develops.