Ernest Hemingway Indian Camp
From a fishing trip the local doctor is summoned to an Indian village
to assist a woman in labour. With him are his young son and an older
male relative. Although all women helped the pregnant Indian woman,
the men "moved off up the road". They want not to hear her screaming.
The men are fed up with it. Maybe it is also an Indian ritual that
only women are allowed to see the woman being in labour. The Indians
are not interest in the childbirth. Hemingway brought a metaphor in:
"dark". It shows that all is very hard and not allowed to see, that
there are secrets maybe. So you see that the Indian men distance up
from the pregnant woman making such big noise. They want silence and
that everything is over now. In opposite to it the doctor, Nick's
father, says:" But her screams are not important. I don't hear them
because they are not important." It depend on his job. Probably he
hears everyday such screams and it is nothing new to him, it is only
the noise concerning the birth. So he does not care about it. Nick
asks his father:" Oh, Daddy cannot you give her something to make her
stop screaming?" Of course, the screams are no good and I think, Nick
also cares about her and want that she has no much pain. But he
understands what his father says and try to ignore it. Nick is a
little boy who does not no how the pain of a labour is, so it is
understandable.
The physician assesses the situation in the closed, pungent hut and
determines that his only option is section-with a pen knife and
fishing leader as his instruments, and no anaesthesia for the Indian
woman. It is the most primitive way of operation, you see. But the
Indian woman has to grateful to have such big help by the ...
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saw the "throat" that "had been cut from ear to ear" he wants that
Nick is going out, but he saw everything. The father was of course
proud to have a baby with his wife, he loved, but the pain and the
shame to know that he could not help was definitely to much for him.
It is hard to judge about it, if it was okay to bring Nick with to the
Indians. Of course it was a special event in his life. First he saw
how life is born and how fast life is over. So he asked also "Is dying
hard, Daddy?" The reader notice that the boy is thinking about it and
want to get a satisfying answer. In this time being in the hut he saw
a lot and I think that Nick needs time to digest it and realize it as
well. The father thought that it was mistake, but maybe for the future
is was not wrong to see the circle of life. And "he felt quite sure
that he would never die".
Now this was the first time Jordan and Nick came into contact with one another, and it is said that the first impressions are extremely important. However, for a strong moral person like Nick, his reaction is surprising when he simply states, "I enjoyed looking at her."(pg. 27 ln 23)This is a sign of his first stages of development, which will soon result into what the author intended.
Nick enjoyed going out in public with Jordan since she was a famous athlete. Yet Nick finally realizes she is not in love with her due to her dishonesty. Jordan is egocentric of her reputation as seen in her cheating scandal when she used her superiority to display her win as a fait accompli, even though she evidently cheated. Thus, Jordan lies to get away from her problems and keep her reputation spotless. Fitzgerald juxtaposes Nick with Jordan, “She was incurably dishonest. She wasn’t able to endure being at a disadvantage and...in order to keep that cool smile, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body...Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply--I was casually sorry, and then I forgot...I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known” (Fitzgerald 58-59). Even if Nick is fastidious about Jordan and her imperfections, he is still fond of her due to her physical attributes. Nick was intrigued about her physical appearance, being with her due to her reputation, and hedonistically attracted towards her. On the other hand, Nick has evidently proven he has moral values such as honesty. Nick has been honest throughout the novel and evidently he has a sense of self-worth since he has never doubted himself for his opinions or his actions. Throughout the novel, Nick has evidently displayed personal integrity and a sense of right or wrong unlike the
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