...Analysis of ”Indian Camp” by Ernest Hemingway, Oktober 24, 2011 Analysis of “Indian Camp” by Ernest Hemingway ”Indian camp” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway written in 1921. It’s about the young boy Nick who accompanies his father, who is a doctor, to an Indian camp where an Indian woman has been in labour for a few days. His uncle George is also going with them to the camp but in another boat. They arrive at the camp where Nick’s father is going help the woman have her baby. The woman is lying on a bunk inside one of the shanties. Her husband, who has hurt his foot, is lying in the upper bunk. Nick’s father has to do a caesarean and Nick watches while his father is preforming the operation. When the baby is born Nick’s father turns to the Indian woman’s husband to see how he’s doing but it turns out that the husband has committed suicide by cutting his throat whit a razor. Then Nick and his father sails back, while Nick is asking a lot of questions. Setting The story takes place in an Indian camp - and on a lake, a meadow and in a wood on the way to and from the camp in northern Michigan (I assume it’s in Michigan, because a nurse will come from St. Ignace (page 15, line 17), witch is a city in northern Michigan). It probably takes place around 1910 based on the fact that Hemingway himself was a child at that time and his own father also was a doctor, who also paid doctor’s calls among Indians in Michigan. Also what is going on in the short story corresponds...
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...Indian Camp - by Ernest Hemingway The title doesn’t say much about the story. The title is very short, simple, and already now, we’re seeing examples of the iceberg technique. The iceberg technique is, when the author only writes about 10% of the essentials in the story. The reader has to read the last 90% between the lines. I think another reason why the title is so simple, might be that the whole story is based on Nick’s story. He chose a title that would fit into Nick’s world. Nick is just a little kid in this story, which is seen by how he sits in his father’s arms for comfort. As a little kid, a title with much meaning and a lot of complicated words doesn’t make much sense. A reason why Ernest Hemingway chose to let the title be as if it was Nick’s choice, might be that Ernest Hemingway identifies himself with Nick. Hemingway’s father was also a doctor, so he had a lot of experiences, maybe familiar to the one we hear about in the story. It is seen that Nick appears a lot in Ernest Hemingway’s stories. In every story Nick grows older and the title’s complexity also grows. We see Nick in different situations from different perspectives in every story. When I compare the introduction to the ending, I’m thinking about the change that Nick goes through. For instance, on the way to the camp in the boat, Nick is sitting in his father's arms. On the way back, Nick sits on the opposite end of the boat. The fact that Nick sits across from his father in the boat on...
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...------------------------------------------------- Hemingway & minimalism * Indian Camp * Making something as small as possible * As few details as possible * In architecture: light and simple * Minimal dialogue + symbols * Cutting a long story short * “Iceberg-technique” FOR SALE: BABY SHOES, NEVER WORN. Short story by Hemingway * Perhaps a miscarriage * In a shop? * Shopaholic * Someone who gave up the baby plans * Just six words makes the reader think and wonder A very short story A 5 sentence summary of the text The text is about an American soldier, who gets wounded in Italy, where he falls in love with his nurse, Luz. They decide to get married and move to America. The soldier moves there first, and then Luz was supposed to come over later, but she has an affair with an Italian major, but they don’t get married either. In the end, they lose all contact and the soldier gets gonorrhoea. a) What is the point of view? Omniscient. Who is the protagonist? The American soldier. Probably Hemingway, as it is mostly based on his own life. Is the ending open or closed in your opinion? I think the ending is closed, because you get closure. b) Characterize “him” and Luz: The protagonist is an American soldier. He is very likely based on Ernest Hemingway, as most of his work is based on his own life, and it fits very well with the story about how he fell in love in the war. Luz...
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...Indian Camp The Horror of Life from Birth to Death During the Modernist Movement, existentialist writers wrote about the meaninglessness of life. Existentialists believe that life is a struggle against the nothingness of the world. They believe there is no higher meaning to the existence of man, and they deny the existence of God. Ernest Hemingway portrays three different ways of coping with the meaninglessness of life in his short story “Indian Camp.” The three characters that portray the three different outlooks are Nick’s father, Uncle George, and the Indian father. Ernest Hemingway uses the environment in his short story “Indian Camp” to develop the thematic vision that there are different ways people can cope with the horror of life from the moment of birth and until death. In the short story, Hemmingway portrays a microcosm of life by including a baby’s birth and a man’s suicide in the short period of the story. The pregnant Indian woman struggles in labor for two days without any medical attention until Nick’s father’s arrival. Nick’s father describes to Uncle George after the procedure, “Doing a Caesarian with a jack-knife and sewing it up with nine-foot, tapered gut leaders” (18). The description of Ernest Hemingway INDIAN CAMP I guess the beginning of the story is quite usual and perhaps even banal. The son wants to watch his father brings new life into the world. He is a young boy who helps his father. But on the other hand, despite the fact that there is only...
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...The story opens as a father discovers that his 9-year-old boy, Schatz, has a fever. The father sends for the doctor and he diagnoses a mild case of influenza. As long as the fever doesn’t go above 104 degrees, the doctor says, the boy will be fine, and he leaves three different types of medication for the father to administer with instructions for each. Schatz’s temperature is determined to be 102 degrees. When the doctor leaves, the father reads to Schatz from a book about pirates, but the boy is not paying attention and is staring fixedly at the foot of the bed. His father suggests he try to get some sleep, but Schatz says he would rather be awake. He also says that his father needn’t stay in the room with him if he is bothered. His father says he isn’t bothered, and after giving him his 11 o’clock dose of medication, the father goes outside. It is a wintry day with sleet frozen onto the countryside, and the father takes the family’s Irish setter out hunting along a frozen creek bed. Both man and dog fall more than once on the ice before they find a covey of quail and kill two. The father, pleased with his exploits, returns to the house. Upon returning home, he finds that Schatz has refused to let anyone into his room because he doesn’t want anyone else to catch the flu. The father enters anyway and finds the boy still staring at the foot of the bed. He takes Schatz’s temperature and finds it 102, as before. He tells Schatz his temperature is fine, and not to worry. Schatz...
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...A DAYS WAIT A brief Analysis The fateful misunderstanding Obviously there is an invisible wall between father and his son. They talk about two different things, the father about the disease and the son about his death but they do not know that they misunderstand each other. This fateful misunderstanding appears in different scenes where the father and son talk about "it", meaning two different things. One example is when the father asks his son why he does not go to sleep. "You don´t have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you." The son is talking about his death but does not mention his fear. He must be shocked when the father answers "It doesn't bother me". Because the father does not know of the fear of his son there is no reason for him to explain that he won´t die. Instead he goes out to hunt. The boy must think that his father does not even care that he will die, but prefers going out to hunt. This fateful misunderstanding happens another time, again Hemingway uses the word "it" to describe two different things. Father: "It´s nothing to worry about." He means the fever. "Just take it easy." Since the son always thinks of death he assumes his father tells him to take dying easy so he answers: "I am taking it easy". The hunting scene In the story "A Day´s Wait" there is a story in a story. In this part of the story the father goes out to hunt for a while while his son is in bed thinking about death. In the passage there is a description of nature...
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...Heinrich Karl (Henry Charles) Bukowski, Jr. was born in Germany the son of Henry Bukowski, a US soldier, and Katharina Fett, a German woman. His family emigrated to the United States in 1922, and settled in Los Angeles, where Bukowski spent most of his life. The city became an integral part of his writing. Bukowski's father was in and out of work during the Depression years, regularly beating the boy. "I had to sleep on my belly at night because of the pain." his father as a cruel, shiny bastard with bad breath. He died in 1958. To shield himself, Bukowski began his life-long occupation with alcohol in his youth. He also suffered from acne – the boils were "the size of apples" – which left scars on his face. During the school years Bukowski read widely, he was especially impressed by Sinclair Lewis's Main Street, Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, Carson McCullers, and D.H. Lawrence. After graduating from Los Angeles High School, Bukowski studied for a year at Los Angeles City College, taking courses in journalism and literature. He left home in 1941 – his father had read his stories and threw his possessions onto the lawn. However, Bukowski still returned to his parents' house when he was totally broke. During World War II Bukowski lived the life of a wondering hobo and skid row alcoholic. He travelled across America, working in odd jobs: petrol station attendant, lift operator, lorry driver, and an overman in a dog biscuit factory. At the age of thirty-five he began to...
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...Казахско-Русский Международный университет – один из первых не государственных высших учебных заведений в Республике Казахстан, образованный в 1994 году. Свой нынешний статус и название университет приобрел в 2001 году. Название университета было дано по предложению Президента Республики Казахстан Назарбаева Н.А., высказанного во время церемонии открытия главного учебного корпуса 21 августа 1998 года в соответствии с Декларацией о вечной дружбе и сотрудничестве между Казахстаном и Россией, ориентированной в XXI столетие. [pic] Свой нынешний статус и название университет приобрел в 2001 году. Сегодня это энергичный вуз, выбравший своей стратегией освоение инновационных педагогических и информационных технологий. [pic] Название университета было дано по предложению Президента Республики Казахстан Назарбаева Н.А., высказанного во время церемонии открытия главного учебного корпуса 21 августа 1998 года в соответствии с Декларацией о вечной дружбе и сотрудничестве между Казахстаном и Россией, ориентированной в XXI столетие. Инициатива создания Казахско-Русского Международного Университета была поддержана Министром образования РФ В.М. Филипповым. [pic] С появлением в Казахстане новой концепции образования, ориентированной, прежде всего, на личность обучаемого, Казахско-Русский Международный университет перешел на систему обучения, учитывающую личностно-ориентированный подход. «Идеи и замыслы...
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...Indian Camp -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The story takes place in an Indian Camp, it begins with a boat ride where father and son, Nick, is in one boat, and Uncle George is in another boat. When they reach the shore, they walk a little while to get to the camp. The purpose of this trip is to get to an Indian woman in labor who has been trying to have her baby for two days, because Nick’s father is a doctor. The woman is lying in a bunk bed, in the lower bunk, and in the upper bunk her husband is lying. We get the impression that this birth doesn’t really interest him “In the upper bunk was her husband. He had cut his foot very badly with an ax three days before. He was smoking a pipe.” (p. 16 l. 14). Nick’s father does a C-section on the Indian woman, and tries to get Nick involved, but Nick obviously thinks it’s kind of gross “”See, it’s a boy, Nick,” he said. “How do you like being an interne?” Nick said, “All right.” He was looking away so as not to see what his father was doing. “There, that gets it,” said his father and put something into the basin. Nick didn’t look at it. “Now,” his father said, “there’s some stitches to put in. You can watch this or not, Nick, just as you like. I’m going to sew up the incision I made.” Nick did not watch. His curiosity had been gone for a long time.” (p. 17 l. 23). When they are about to leave, Nick’s father believes that he should just check on the Indian woman’s husband, but...
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...Indian Camp December 2011 Going through childhood, and taking a step into the adult world, is something that we all go through. Growing up is a very important part of life. Someday we’ll all become adults, and if you don’t develop yourself personally, you will remain having a childish personality and not have the skills life requires of you to live a life as a normal human being. Personal development is a theme that is very prominent in the short story “Indian Camp” written by Ernest Hemingway in 1921, where we meet the young boy Nick who’s on a mission with his father at an Indian camp. He gets introduced to the realities of birth and death in only one day, and when the day is over, he has got numerous of experiences and has obviously grown mentally. He has taken a little step further into becoming an adult. In my analysis I will make a brief summary, an analysis of the short story, where I will focus on Nick Adams development through the story and discuss which kind of initiation he goes through. Finally to sum up, I will make a conclusion. Nick is a young boy accompanying his father and his uncle George to an Indian camp on the other side of a lake. Nicks father is a doctor, and the reason why they are visiting this Indian camp, is because the father is summoned by the Indians to help a young woman who’s been in labor for 2 days, still unable to deliver her baby. When the father arrives, she is lying in a bottom bunk; her husband, who cut his foot badly with an axe three...
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...Analysis and interpretation of Hemmingway’s:Indian Camp The story is about a boy, Nick, who goes to an Indian camp with his father who is a doctor and his uncle George. They go to the Indian camp to help a woman who, according to Nick’s father, “is very sick”; she has been in labor for two days. The main theme of the story is love; between father and son, and between husband and wife. A major theme in this story is racial differences and the whites’ alleged superiority and the contrast between light and dark is repeated throughout the story. The protagonist is a young boy named Nick who, contrary to the other characters, always stays positive and, throughout the story, keeps a feeling of hope – he is ignorant and because of his innocence, the reader may consider him quite naive. Nicks father is well educated; he is a doctor. He is very protective of him and it is obvious that there is great love and affection between him and Nick. This shows in the beginning of the story, when the Indians row them to the camp; the father has his arm around Nick as they lie in the rowing boat. He wants to avoid making Nick nervous about the trip, therefore he only tells him a few necessary things. He is very sensible and educational when he explains to his son what is happening with the woman in labor; “the baby wants to be born and she wants it to be born. All her muscles are trying to get the baby born. That is what is happening when she screams.” There is no physical description...
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...A Literary Analysis A careful examination of the short story Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway reveals the usage of such literary devices as plot and theme to deliver both the unfolding story and the meaning behind it. The theme of the story is a powerful message about the realities of life and the plot is the canvas upon which the theme is painted. Clearly, both the plot and the theme are of equal importance in Indian Camp and are the most significant literary tools used throughout the story. Hemingway intended for the plot to be simple and not to be over analyzed. It is how the theme emerges and how the plot helps to reveal the story's true meaning [theme] that must be analyzed. A doctor brings his son Nick and 'Uncle George' to a house call upon an Indian reservation. They must travel by river in small boats, then through a thick forest for some time. Once they arrive at the house, Nicks father must operate on a pregnant Indian whose been in labor for two days and is clearly experiencing birth complications. The pregnant Indian is in a great deal of pain and her husband offers no words of comfort as he feels a sense of self pity knowing that he can't help his wife. Eventually Nick's father delivers the baby and stitches up the exhausted mother, then he turns to the husband of the Indian women only to find that he had committed suicide while lying in bed. Assumably he could not bear...
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...Summary * Uncle George * smoker * Nick Adams * maybe 10 years old * father * doctor? * volunteer? * Indian lady * pregnant * sick – trying to have her baby since 2 days (being in labour, Wehen haben) * husband * smokes a pipe * axe -> foot (3 days before) * Indians * bark peelers * work for a logging company Way to the Indian Camp * Nick, father and Uncle George * 2 Indians pick them up * row across the lake in two boats * Nick asking: Where are we going… father: to an Indian Camp because an India woman is very sick * boats arrive – walk through a meadow to the woods * follow a trail -> logging road (much lighter) * Shanties – the 2 men enter the one nearest the road @ camp – sick woman * Indian woman has been in labor for 2 days * lying on the bottom bunk of a bead * cries out in pain * father explains Nick: her muscles are trying to get the baby out of her body * Nick: anything against the pain? – no anesthetic * husband is on the top bunk with a cut foot * father prepares: boils some medical instruments, washes his hands carefully * explanations to Nick: babies are supposed to be born head first, but sometimes become turned around * may have to operate * several men must hold the woman down * she bites Uncle George * boy is born * father -> Nick: do you like being an intern? – lies: yes it’s fine * Nick...
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...The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0142-5455.htm ER 29,6 Talent management strategy of employee engagement in Indian ITES employees: key to retention Jyotsna Bhatnagar Human Resource Management Area, Management Development Institute, Sukhrali, Gurgaon, India Abstract Purpose – With talent management becoming an area of growing concern in the literature, the purpose of this paper is to investigate talent management and its relationship to levels of employee engagement using a mixed method research design. Design/methodology/approach – The first phase was a survey on a sample of 272 BPO/ITES employees, using Gallup q12 or Gallup Workplace Audit. Focus group interview discussion was based on reasons for attrition and the unique problems of employee engagement. In the second phase, one of the BPO organizations from the phase I sample was chosen at random and exit interview data was analyzed using factor analysis and content analysis. Findings – The results were in the expected direction and fulfilled the research aims of the current study. In the first phase low factor loadings indicated low engagement scores at the beginning of the career and at completion of 16 months with the organization. High factor loadings at intermediate stages of employment were indicative of high engagement levels, but the interview data reflected that this may mean high loyalty, but only for a limited time. In the second phase factor loadings indicated...
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...AARTI AGARWALFEMALE, 24, INDIAN | ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS | Year | Qualification | Institute | %/C.G.P.A | 2013 | PGDM | Indian Institute of Management Rohtak | 7.10 | 2008 | B.E.(EEE) | Anna University, Chennai | 78.8% | 2004 | Class XII (HSC) | Rose Mary Hr Sec School, Delhi | 95.2 % | 2002 | Class X (Matriculation) | Rose Mary Hr Sec School, Delhi | 83.6 % | INTERNSHIPS | * Online Merchandising Strategy in eBAY.eBay is a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries. The project during my intern was to maximize merchandise sales using product design, selection, packaging, pricing, and display that stimulate consumers to spend more. This includes disciplines in pricing and discounting, physical presentation of products and displays,e-marketing and the decisions about which products should be presented to which customers at what time. * Key ResponsibilitiesWorked on the key strategies like online market research, affiliate marketing, E-advertising, Cross selling andShout it out | ACADEMIC PROJECTS | IIM Rohtak | * Live Project in Megarth on Design and social media marketing * Financial Analysis of Indian Industries (IT & Manufacturing Sector) * Design of distributed systems of Supply chain Management for warehouses * Analysis of Marketing Myopia of Indian companies and their downfall * Devising online Marketing strategy plan for biscuits and cookies | Anna University | * Designed and implemented...
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