"Indian Camp" means "Indian Camp". The pain of everyone in this novel stems from the conflict between the cruelty of reality and their own powerlessness: the conflict between Indian women's fertility and dystocia. Conflict; a conflict of race, culture, and humanity between Indian men and white doctors.
The conflict between the lightness of life in Nick’s eyes and the weight of psychological carrying. The four different levels of pain in the novel reflect the basic conflicts between man and nature, man and man, and man and himself.
The baby struggled to be reborn with a large folding knife, but the father easily ended his life with the help of a small razor. The three knives that act on different parts of the body are props carefully selected by Hemingway in order to continuously introduce cruel scenes and finally open the curtain of tragedy.
However, describing shocking violence is by no means Hemingway’s ultimate intention. What he wants people to see is the various pains of different characters behind the violence.
Therefore, it can be said that Hemingway's purpose of constructing these three characters and creating "Indian Camp" is to emphasize the significance of pain to people: people feel pain all the time - natural and psychological , spiritual; and carries pain in various ways—either accepted in confusion (like Nick), chewing in discouragement (like the white doctor), or dying passively (like the 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 entire story revolves around the plot of Nick and his father going to the Indian camp to rescue a woman in labor. The novel shows the readers a clear context of the story's occurrence, development, and even the climax. The heroic scene of rescuing people from fire and water is the unique feature of Hemingway's style.
However, from several vivid dialogues and the subtle behavioral descriptions of the Indian husband, we can deeply feel the racial discrimination and the opposition between good and evil. Although the novel takes the dialogue between Nick and his son as the main line, the poor, kind and friendly Indians are vividly displayed in front of readers in Hemingway's writings.
In the world of white doctors, Indians are like cattle to be slaughtered without any respect or sympathy. Through Hemingway's brief description, readers can deeply understand the love for Indians contained in Hemingway's works. The humanitarian spirit of respect and the critical spirit of white racial discrimination.
Extended information
"Indian Camp" is an early short story written by the American writer Hemingway. It is included in the short story collection "In Our Time" published in 1924.
This article tells the story of a white doctor who took his child to the Indians to deliver a pregnant woman with dystocia. The author tells this story in a calm narrative tone, but does not explain in detail why the man committed suicide.
In 1918, the 19-year-old Hemingway participated in World War I and was seriously injured. Doctors removed 237 pieces of shrapnel from his body, and a small number of shrapnel remained in his body until his death. The war, like these shrapnel, left insurmountable wounds on his mind.
He clearly saw that war destroyed human civilization, destroyed young people's illusions about a better life, and destroyed morals and values ??based on humanitarianism. The war brought huge mental and physical trauma to Hemingway, which eventually prompted him to become the representative writer of the "Lost Generation".
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Born on July 21, 1899 in the rubber plantation town on the outskirts of Chicago. His father is a doctor and sports enthusiast, and his mother is engaged in music education. The second of six brothers and sisters, he loved sports, fishing and hunting since childhood.
After graduating from high school, he traveled to France and other places, and worked as a trainee reporter after returning to China. After the outbreak of the First World War, he volunteered to go to Italy as a field ambulance driver. In the summer of 1918, he was seriously injured by a shell on the front line and returned to China to recuperate.
Later he went to work as a reporter for the Star in Toronto, Canada. Returning to Paris in 1921, he met American female writer Stein, young writer Anderson and poet Ezra Pound. In 1923, he published his debut work "Three Short Stories and Ten Poems", and then traveled to various European countries. In 1926, he published the novel "The Sun Also Rises", which was an initial success and was called "the lost generation" by Stein.