The “Indian Camp” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway in 1921. The story is about a young boy called Nick and his father. Nicks father is a doctor. They went to an Indian camp, where an Indian woman has been in labour for some days. Nick, his father and his uncle called George arrived at the Indian camp where Nicks father was going to help the Indian woman to give birth. As soon as the baby was born Nicks father went to the Indian women’s husband just to check how he was doing. The husband has committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Nick had a lot of question to his father because he didn’t understand the whole situation. Nick and his father row back together.
The story takes place in an Indian camp, and the main characters are Nick and his father. There is also Uncle George, an Indian woman, her husband, the old Indian woman and some Indian men.
Nick is the main character and the one we see things through. We don’t know his exact age. He is probably 10-13 years old, because he calls his father “daddy” and he asks a lot of questions while his father is trying to teach him about the real life. Example when his father is teaching him about being in labour: “You don't know”, "Listen to me. What she is going through is called being 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."(page 26, line 26). It shows that Nick doesn’t understand what is happening, which describes Nick’s innocence. It shows that he was too young to understand a childbirth. Nick went through a lot of things - such as a witness to a violent childbirth and a suicide.
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