Ernest Hemingways Indian Camp Essay -- Ernest Hemingway, Indian Camp

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 ... ...e. When he 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".