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6 pages in length. Childhood experiences - both good and bad - serve to formulate an individual's lifelong perspectives, judgments and beliefs, all of which ultimately construct his personality. Parents toil especially hard to make sure every situation has an underlying lesson to take away so the child realizes the importance of learning from everything that happens in one's life. Earnest Hemingway's work sought to pass along this message in virtually all his writings, not the least of which is the traumatic encounter Nick Adams undergoes in Indian Camp and how it was instrumental in shaping the boy's personality with regard to compassion for his fellow man. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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toil especially hard to make sure every situation has an underlying lesson to take away so the child realizes the importance of learning from everything that happens in ones life.
Earnest Hemingways work sought to pass along this message in virtually all his writings, not the least of which is the traumatic encounter Nick Adams undergoes in Indian Camp
and how it was instrumental in shaping the boys personality with regard to compassion for his fellow man and his own fear of death. What Hemingway seems to be
suggesting...is that mens characters are determined, in part, by their responses to human and animal suffering, and (in "Indian Camp") especially womens suffering, a conviction that many feminists share...In Hemingways
twentieth-century world, ones responses to the suffering of women (and, perhaps, to the suffering of children, war refugees, and animals, images of which are closely linked in his writings to
the suffering of women)...similarly reveal ones capacity for humanity (Tyler, 2006, p. 37). Nicks childhood is filled with experiences that prove to jolt his entire young world into a
state of shock, forcing him into a corner of decision that ultimately impacts his decision-making process for the rest of his life. In Indian Camp, he witnesses a particularly
brutal example of his own fathers contempt for and disassociation with women in general and Native American women in particular when he performs what can only be described as a
torturously primitive Caesarian section on an Indian woman two days into labor with a breach baby. Sans anesthetic, modern - much less sterile - instruments or the courtesy to
explain to the agonized woman what he was planning to do, Dr. Adams demonstrated the most blatant display of inhumanity for little Nick to psychologically digest, an experience that taught
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