In Ernest Hemingway’s Three Shots, Nick Adams is both creative and childish. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story Three Shots, a young boy named Nick Adams is on a camping trip with his father and uncle George. Nick’s father and uncle wanted to go fishing with out Nick so his father told him if their was any emergency, he should shoot a rifle three times and they will come back as quickly as possible. Being a little boy alone in the wood at night, got scared and shot the three shots from the rifle. When his father and uncle came back, Nick had to be creative and make up a reason why he shot the rifle. Nick told his father and uncle “ It sounded like a cross between a fox and a wolf and it was fooling around the tent”, but uncle George was mad
