Three Shots and Indian Camp

Devin Westf any Professor Peter Faziani English 151 October 15, 2012 Hemingways Nick Adams third Shots and Indian Camp In Hemingways Nick Adams Three Shots and Indian Camp Nick goes through some(a) changes in his life. He goes from being scared that some sidereal day he must die to feeling rather sure that he will neer die. In the short romance Three Shots Nick, his contract, and his uncle are encamp and Nick remembers with shame how he had gotten scared thinking about how he would die one day when he was alone. His father and uncle go fishing after supper leaving Nick all alone at the camp site.He tried to lay still and go to sleep but he couldnt all he could think about is that someday he must die it started to make him feel sort of sick. Before they shoved the boat out his father told him that if any emergency came up while they were gone he was to fire three shots with the rifle and they would come right back. Nick ended up calling his father and uncle by firing three sho ts up in the air with the rifle his father had left him, this had make his uncle frustrated by thinking that Nick was a coward his father on the other hand more understands past his uncle.When his father and uncle return his father ask him what was it Nickie? He lies and tells his father that he had heard an living organism outside the tent he was too ashamed to tell his father the truth. In the short story Indian Camp Nick accompanies his father, who is a Doctor, and his uncle to an Indian camp, to help a young Indian women she had been stressful to give birth to her child for two days due to complications. Nicks father ends up having to perform a caesarian to recover the womens child. Oh, daddy, cant you give her something to make her stop screaming? Asked cut Nick becomes frightened by the womens screams and does not want to watch his father perform the mathematical process on the Indian women. Nicks father had been told that the plunders father had hurt himself in an ax calamity a few days before and he goes to take a look at him and finds that the babys father had actually killed himself by slitting his throat from one end to another.Nicks father tries to keep him from eyesight what had happened to the man but it was too late he had already seen what had happened. Nicks father feels awful for bringing him along and putting him through everything he had seen that day. As they are leaving the camp Nick and his father prove suicide and death. Why did he kill himself, daddy? Nicks father didnt know the answer to his wonder he told him he didnt know and that maybe it was because he couldnt stand things, Nick therefore asks is dying, hard daddy? His father tells him no its not and that he thinks its pretty easy, Nick then felt quite sure that he would never die. In conclusion Hemingways Nick Adams Three Shots and Indian Camp both change Nick throughout each story in diverse ways. He goes from being scared of dying someday to feeling quite sure tha t he would never die. In Three Shots it shows a conflict between nicks immaturity and his realization that all life finally come to an end. In Indian Camp it shows life and death, Nick is no longer afraid of death.