The Different Meanings Of The Indian Camp By Ernest...

The Story within the Story: The different meanings of The Indian Camp While researching texts written about The Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway. I found that readers all had different views on the events within the story. One of the major focus was on an suicide that took place. Although the reason for the even is not clear many chose to focus on why it happened. This was not the main plot of the story but it played a significant roll in people interpretations. The short story focuses on Nick Adam s a young kid who is taking a trip with his father to deliver a baby. While on this trip Nick is exposed to certain things that are parts of life. My goal in this paper is to try to give my readers my interpretations on the events that unfolded during the story. Ill give you a glimpse into my point of view and what I think each situation means. To achieve my goal, I have organized my paper into three sections. Two out of the three will have sub-sections. In the first section I will provide an event about Nick and his understanding on whats actually happening: my interpretation of his father and what I thought nick was exposed to and his understanding. The second section I will discuss what I thought the meaning of the suicide ment. I will cite some resources from different texts that we have went over in discussion and what resources thought of the tragic suicide. Ill try to compare how my thoughts was formulated vs what the sources thought. I will end my paper with an aShow MoreRelatedErnest Hemingway Indian Camp Symbolism1137 Words   |  5 PagesAmong all the stories I had the chance to read in this course, â€Å"Indian Camp† by Ernest Hemingway kept on reappearing on my mind, as if it was part of a movie I recently watched and its juxtapose of complexity vs. simplicity was longing for a deeper understanding and appreciation. Ernest Hemingway’s â€Å"Indian Camp† includes symbols with deeper meanings within the imagery and characters. The story is very straight forward, simple and minimalist. It doesn’t beat around the bush, exposing unnecessaryRead More Different Cultures, Different Essay957 Words   |  4 Pages Every society and culture has different ways of interpreting and defining occurrences by the way their own culture or society functions. â€Å"A society’s culture, consists of whatever it is one has to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to its members†(Geertz 242). The rituals, customs, ethics and morals that are attributed to the cultures have caused these differences. To understand how the people of one culture interpret a situation or event, one must evaluate the attributesRead More Comparing F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway Essay1214 Words   |  5 PagesComparing F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, though both evolved from the same literary time and place, created their works in two very dissimilar writing styles which are representative of their subject matter. The two writers were both products of the post-WWI lost generation and first gained notoriety as members of the American expatriate literary community living in Paris during the 1920s. Despite this underlying fact which influencedRead MoreThe Marxist And Postcolonial Lenses1366 Words   |  6 Pagesstory apart and delve deeper into the author’s true meaning. One such author famous for hiding a deeper meaning beneath the surface of his stories is Ernest Hemingway. By analyzing literature through the Marxist and Postcolonial lenses, one can see Hemingway’s inner thoughts about how people view and interact with each other, on both a classist and racist level. The Marxist standpoint is known to illuminate the struggles and tensions of different social classes in literature. In Hemingway’s â€Å"A CatRead MoreWhat Lies Beneath: The Meaning Beneath the Surface of Ernest Hemingways Work3267 Words   |  13 Pagesthe freezing waters, but instead the unseen structure twice its size that lurked beneath the surface. Ernest Hemingway does the same thing to his readers that the iceberg did to the titanic. In Hemingway’s writing it is undeniably what lies beneath the surface, what remains unsaid, that truly shakes the reader to their core. Like other American writers, such as Mark Twain and Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemmingway worked as a journalist before beginning his career in literature. As a rule, journalistsRead MoreErnest Hemingway Research Paper3978 Words   |  16 PagesMrs. Carmody Period 8 April 16, 2012 Wang 2 Many authors, critics, and everyday social readers define Ernest Hemingway as the prime example of 20th century American literature. Hemingway’s works transcend time itself, so that even readers today analyze and criticize his works. His works, of course, have drawn praises and animosity from all corners of the globe. Critics often applause Hemingway on his short simple prose, for which many people recognize him for. His writing builds upon the masterfulRead More The Forgotten Female in the Works of Ernest Hemingway Essay3143 Words   |  13 PagesThe Forgotten Female in the Works of Hemingway      Ã‚  Ã‚   Ernest Hemingway has often been accused of misogyny in his treatment of female characters (and, perhaps, in his treatment of women in his own life). It is not fashionable these days to praise the work of Ernest Hemingway, says Frederick Busch. His women too often seem to be projections of male needfulness (1). Many of his stories are seen as prototypical bildungsroman stories--stories, usually, of young men coming of age. ThereRead MoreAlcohol and Despair Depicted in Ernest Hemingways Short Stories2611 Words   |  11 PagesThroughout the short stories of Ernest Hemingway, alcohol inevitably lends its company to situations in which desperation already resides. In an examination of his earlier works, such as In Our Time, a comparison to later collections reveals the constant presence of alcohol where hopelessness prevails. The nature of the hopelessness, the desperation, changes from his earlier works to his later pieces, but its source remains the same: potential, or promise of the future causes a great deal of trepidationRead MoreA Research Assignment : All Quiet On The Western Front And The Sun Also Rises2803 Words   |  12 PagesResearch Assignment â€Å"I was there† Anoki Jacksch 12Eng61 16.05.14: Introduction The authors, E.M. Remarque, Eric Lomax, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller and Ernest Hemingway, who became famous, wrote excellent novels, because they were in love, have an underlying issue or have experienced issues that they want to share with the world. I choose to investigate the following novels: All Quiet on the Western Front, The Railway Man, Slaughterhouse-5, Catch-22 and The Sun Also Rises, because they all thematicallyRead MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 Pages................................................................................... 107 Creating Helpful Definitions ............................................................................................................ 110 Different Definitions for Different Purposes .............................................................................. 111 How to Avoid Errors when Creating Definitions ..................................................................... 115 Review of Major Points