Appreciation of Hemingway's "Indian Camp"

《Indian Camp is the Indian Camp. In this novel, all people's pain stems from the conflict between the ruthlessness of reality and their own powerlessness: the conflict between Indian women's childbirth and dystocia; Conflicts between Indian men and white doctors in race, culture and humanity.

The conflict between the lightness of life in Nick's eyes and the heaviness of psychological bearing. The four different levels of pain in the novel reflect the basic conflict between man and nature, man and man, and man and self.

The baby struggled to get a new life with a big folding knife, but the father ended his life easily with a small razor. The three knives acting on different parts of the body are carefully selected props by Hemingway, in order to constantly introduce cruel scenes and finally open the curtain of tragedy.

However, it is by no means Hemingway's ultimate intention to describe shocking violence. What he wants people to see is the sufferings of different characters behind the violence.

Therefore, it can be said that Hemingway's purpose in constructing these three characters and writing Indian Camp is to emphasize the significance of pain to people: people feel pain all the time-natural, psychological and spiritual; And it bears the pain in various ways-either accepting it in confusion (like Nick), chewing it in discouragement (like a white doctor), or dying passively (like an Indian man). ?

From this point of view, Indian Camp actually implies the author's outlook on life and life-"I believe that life is a tragedy, and I know that it can only have one result."

In Indian Camp, the whole story revolves around the plot that Nick and his father go to Indian Camp to rescue women in labor. The novel shows readers a heroic picture of saving from the mire with the clear context of the story's occurrence, development and even climax, which is the unique feature of Hemingway's style.

However, from several vivid dialogues and subtle behavior descriptions of Indian husbands, we can deeply feel the picture of racial discrimination and the opposition between good and evil. Although the main line of the novel is the conversation between Nick and his son, the poor, kind and affectionate Indian is presented to readers in Hemingway's works.

In the world of white doctors, Indians are like animals slaughtered by others, and they don't need any respect or sympathy. Through Hemingway's brief description, readers deeply realize the humanitarian spirit of respecting Indians and the critical spirit of racial discrimination against whites contained in his works.

Extended information

Indian Camp is a short story written by Hemingway in his early days, which was included in In Our Time, a collection of short stories published in 1924.

This article tells the story of a white doctor who took his child to an Indian to deliver a baby for a pregnant woman who was in dystocia. The author tells the story in a calm narrative tone, but he doesn't explain why the man committed suicide.

In p>1918, Hemingway, who was 19 years old, participated in World War I and was seriously injured. Doctors took 237 shrapnel from him, and a few shrapnel remained in his body until he died. Like these shrapnel, the war left his mind with wounds that could not be healed.

He clearly saw that war destroyed human civilization, destroyed young people's fantasy of a better life, and destroyed morality and values based on humanitarianism. The war brought great trauma to Hemingway's spirit and body, which prompted him to eventually become the representative writer of the "lost generation".

Ernest Hemingway (1899 ~ 1961) was an American novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Born on July 21, 1899 in Rubber Garden Town, a suburb of Chicago. My father is a doctor and a sports enthusiast, and my mother is engaged in music education. Among the six brothers and sisters, he ranked second, and loved sports, fishing and hunting since childhood.

After graduating from middle school, I traveled to France and other places, and worked as a trainee reporter after returning home. After the outbreak of the First World War, he volunteered to go to Italy as a battlefield ambulance driver. In the summer of 1918, he was seriously injured in the front line by artillery shells and returned to China to recuperate.

Later, I went to Toronto Star as a reporter. Returning to Paris in 1921, I met American woman writer Stein, young writer Anderson and poet Pound. In 1923, he published his first novel "Three Short Stories and Ten Poems", and then traveled to European countries. In 1926, the novel The Sun Also Rises was published, which was initially successful and was called "the lost generation" by Stein.