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Indian Camp

 

            In my eyes, Indian Camp is about ways of life and death. In the beginning there are Nick, Nick's Father (the doctor), and Uncle George. There is a woman in the camp that has been having difficulties with her child's birth for two days before the arrival of the doctor. The father has also been dealing with an axe injury to his foot. Upon arrival the doctor realizes that he will have to operate on this Indian woman. During the operation, the woman bites Uncle George on the arm. He curses at her. The father of the baby could not take the horrifying screams of his wife, so he rolls over in the bunk to avoid the screams. After the operation, Uncle George and Nick's Father were talking about this operation as if it were a football game, "That's one for the medical journal, George. Doing a caesarian with a jack-knife and sewing it up with nine-foot, tapered gut leaders." There is something horribly wrong with the meaning of life here. After all is said and done, Nick's Father goes to check up on the father of the child. Once upon the father, the doctor realizes that he has killed himself. The father could not cope with what the mother of his child was going through, so he wanted to stop everything that was wrong. The only way for him to do that was to commit suicide. There are some horrifying views about life and death in this story. From the beginning of life to the drastic ways of the ending of life, this story touches on all the negative outlooks life has for some people. The symbolism in this story is about terrible ways of life in different cultures.
            


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