A Short Summary Of Indian Camp By Ernest Hemingway

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Indian Camp-Hemingway
Indian Camp is about Nick and his father arriving at the lake shore while two Indians are waiting there to pick them up. The Indians row the two men and one boy across the lake in two boats. Nick’s father is rowing over to the Indian camp to help an Indian woman who is sick. When arriving there they see shanties where the Indian family stays. Inside, they find an Indian woman who has been in labor for two days. The woman is lying in a bed, crying in pain from labor, while his father wants to calm her down. His father wants to stop the pain, but he doesn’t have any anesthetics to do so. His father washes his hands preparing to give a C-section to the woman because the baby is supposed to come out head first. While performing the procedure the Indian woman bites his uncle. A boy is born and Nick refuses to watch his father sew up the woman. Afterward, Nick’s father and his uncle are content because they just performed a very difficult procedure. He goes over to the Indian father and pulls back his blanket. The father's throat is slit and the razor lies next to him. Nick's father tells his uncle to take Nick away, but he does not do so before Nick sees his father tip the Indian father's head back. On the way home Nick’s father apologizes for bringing him. Nick asks his father if dying is hard and his father says that it is pretty easy.
Post-colonial themes and symbols in this story are explained through the characters as the colonizers and the colonized. Nick shows innocence, the doctor shows dismissal or denial, and his uncle represents oppression. The Indians in the story try and copy the Americans showing how they need help because they need someone to come over and assist them in delivering a baby. They wan...

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