Hemingway Rough Draft Ernest Hemingway usually write about coming of age,racism,and sexism in his short stories especially in the ones with Nick Adams. In Hemingway’s short story “Indian Camp”, Nick Adams and his father go to an Indian village where a soon to be mother was having trouble giving birth to her baby, so Nick’s father came to see if he can help. Ernest Hemingway”s short story “Indian Camp” exhibits Nick Adams’ transition into adulthood where grownups model that racism and sexism are acceptable characteristics of man. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was Clarence Edmonds Hemingway and his mother was Grace Hall-Hemingway. Hemingway loved to go on safari’s and on one of his safari in Africa he got sick and he needed to be flew out by a plane. As he was in the sky he looked out the window and saw Mt. Kilimaniaro. He loved the way it looked, so he wrote a book on it. Hemingway had three sons named Jack,Gregory,and Patrick Hemingway. Hemingway had four wives named Hadley Richardson,Pauline Pfeiffer,Martha Gellhorn,and Mary Welsh Hemingway. Hemingway served in WW2 as an volunteer for the American Red Cross as an Ambulance driver in the Italian front. Also “He …show more content…
When Nick’s father was giving the Indian mother a caesarean without any anesthetic. Nick asked his father to make her to stop screaming, his father said that he can’t “But her screams are not important”(Hemingway). Also “What Hemingway seems to be suggesting in In Our Time is that men’s characters are determined, in part, by their responses to human and animal suffering, and (in “Indian Camp”) especially women’s suffering, a conviction that many feminists share”(Tyler). Nick’s father tells Nick that women suffering is not important and that when a mother is giving birth the father suffer the worst. Nick’s father saying these things is the perfect example of sexism in Hemingway’s “Indian