Ernest Hemingway’s writings thrive off of his lifetime experiences and opinions and display his racist and sexist mindset. Ernest Hemingway's short stories “Indian Camp” and “The Doctor And The Doctor’s Wife” transition into adulthood where grown ups model that racism and sexism are acceptable characteristics of man. During this In “Indian Camp” Nick and his father go to Indian Camp to birth a woman's baby who has been trying to have the baby for two days and the baby was coming out upside down so they took the baby out via C-section without any anesthesia or medicine to relieve her pain. In “The Doctor and The Doctor’s Wife” Dr. Adams sends Dick Boulton(who was mulato) to chop wood for him and then Dick accuses doctor of stealing the wood
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In “Indian Camp” young Nick Adams watches his father birth a baby from an Indian woman and as he is doing it he explains to Nick what is happening. Lisa Tyler said “Indian Camp’, for example, is not about the woman’s difficult delivery; it is about Dr. Adam’s failed attempt to ‘make a man’ out of his son”(‘Dangerous Families’ and ‘Intimate harm’” Another example of “coming of age” is in “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” at the end of the story, when Nick is found sitting alone reading a book and insists to go hunting with his father rather than seeing his mother. Nick went from being innocent to being ready to go hunting with his dad without being asked. Nick says “I know where there’s black squirrels, Daddy,”( The Doctor and the Doctor’s wife page 103). Nick Adams says that shortly after his dad sees him reading a book by the tree and tells him his mother wants him to see her. What made Nick a child was his innocence and what not makes him an adult is his knowledge a change is noticed when Nick goes hunting with his dad rather than going with him mom. Nick is growing through racism and sexism by hearing racist and sexist things from the people who surround him. Nick Adam had a coming of age through the thing he experienced, and heard from his
In “Indian Camp” young Nick Adams watches his father birth a baby from an Indian woman and as he is doing it he explains to Nick what is happening. Lisa Tyler said “Indian Camp’, for example, is not about the woman’s difficult delivery; it is about Dr. Adam’s failed attempt to ‘make a man’ out of his son”(‘Dangerous Families’ and ‘Intimate harm’” Another example of “coming of age” is in “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” at the end of the story, when Nick is found sitting alone reading a book and insists to go hunting with his father rather than seeing his mother. Nick went from being innocent to being ready to go hunting with his dad without being asked. Nick says “I know where there’s black squirrels, Daddy,”( The Doctor and the Doctor’s wife page 103). Nick Adams says that shortly after his dad sees him reading a book by the tree and tells him his mother wants him to see her. What made Nick a child was his innocence and what not makes him an adult is his knowledge a change is noticed when Nick goes hunting with his dad rather than going with him mom. Nick is growing through racism and sexism by hearing racist and sexist things from the people who surround him. Nick Adam had a coming of age through the thing he experienced, and heard from his