Well, think about why the story didn't just t Nick is like our set of eyes—and, in a slightly weirder way, like our brain. Even though the story is told from a third-person perspective, it's a third person that describes Nick's view of thing Coming-Of-AgeHey, coming of age doesn't just happen all at once. It's more of a growing process. Oh yeah, things are definitely tense in "Indian Camp. We get the sense that Nick c FamiliarLet's think about the first line of the story:At the lake shore there was another rowboat drawn up.
The two Indians stood waiting. So there was al Here, a very young Nick is initiated into concepts that remained of highest importance to Hemingway throughout his writing career: life and death; suffering, pain, and endurance; and suicide.
Nick's father goes to the American Indian camp to help a young American Indian woman who has been screaming because of severe labor pains for two days, still unable to deliver her baby. When Dr. Adams arrives, she is lying in a bottom bunk; her husband, who cut his foot badly with an axe three days before, is lying in the bunk bed above her.
Doctor Adams asks Nick to assist him, holding a basin of hot water while four American Indian men hold down the woman. Using his fishing jackknife as a scalpel, Dr.
Adams performs a cesarean on the woman, delivers the baby boy, then sews up the woman's incision with some gut leader line from his fishing tackle. Exhilarated by the success of his impromptu, improvised surgery, Doctor Adams looks into the top bunk and discovers that the young American Indian husband, who listened to his wife screaming during her labor pains and during the cesarean, has cut his throat. Although this very short story deals with violence and suffering, with birth and death, sexism and racism, Hemingway's emphasis is not on the shocking events themselves; instead, Hemingway shows the effect of birth and death on young Nick Adams.
Nick's progression in this short story is vividly portrayed in polarities. For instance, on the way to the camp in the boat, Nick is sitting in his father's arms; on the way back, Nick sits on the opposite end of the boat. Similarly, while his father wants Nick to witness the birth and his surgical triumph , Nick turns his head away; when the American Indian husband is discovered dead in his bed, Nick sees it, even though his father wants to protect him from it.
The fact that Nick sits across from his father in the boat on the way back after this experience can indicate a pulling out from underneath his father's influence. The young boy asks his father why the young American Indian man cut his throat and is told, "I don't know. He couldn't stand things, I guess. The treatment and attitude of Dr. Adams toward the woman, who is an American Indian, are key also.
Hemingway utilizes the device of compression in writing his dialogue, constructing minimal language, but somehow powerful meaning is generated. Before delving into the analysis, it is necessary to explain the literary device of compression in dialogue. It must crystallize the situation. It must express character. Hence, each piece of dialogue has an exact calculated purpose.
However, such things should be implied subtly, suggestively, and never through direct statement Bowen When this is the case, what they intend to say, rather than what they are actually saying, is more striking because of its greater inner importance to the plot Bowen Here, with the use of precise suggestive language, there is a lot more room for analysis and connotations.
Therefore, characters should be under, rather than over articulate, with language that is simple, calculated, and loaded with deep meaning. Now that an understanding has been given to explain why Hemingway would write such basic passages, an analysis can be given on how Hemingway was able to compress his dialogue, but create maximum meaning. For many authors this is a difficult task, but Hemingway was able to use a number of literary devices that allowed for simple, but significant language.
First, the literary device of omission will be considered. In many instances, a narrator is used in a work to convey necessary information. However, to expose details of the story, Hemingway often turns away from narrative commentary and instead makes use of compressed dialogue Lamb One night, when left alone in the woods, he hears a noise and summons his father and his Uncle George.
When Uncle George expresses his contempt, Nick becomes embarrassed. The next day, a conversation takes place between Nick and his father. His father tries to find something that might create the same noise that Nick heard.
Hence, the events of the previous night are referred to, but are never explicitly mentioned Lamb This is a clear example of how Hemingway crystallizes a situation by using omission in compressed dialogue.
Hemingway also creates deep meaning in his deceptively simplistic dialogue through another literary device which is indirection. For starters, the use of the word found instead of saw is suggestive that his father deliberately sought out a forest noise to console his son and to indirectly show he believes his son was telling the truth about the noise, despite what others think.
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