Write a summary of "Indian Camp" (approximately 200 words)
The short story Indian Camp was written by Ernest Hemingway and published in 1924. The main characters are Nick and his father.
It is about the young boy Nick who accompanies his father, who is a doctor, to an Indian camp in Norhern Michigan 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 was resting because of pain in his foot, is lying in the upper bunk. Nick's father has to do a caesarean on a woman without anesthetic 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 is doing but it turns out that the husband has committed suicide by cutting his throat whit a razor.
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