Nick's Adulthood

As Nick matures, he struggled with responsibilities adulthood has in store for him; as well as war, death, marriage, and personal family. He learned so much about himself and life itself over time; as well as relationship from culture to culture and from person to person. He dealt variety of things and people and activities; which include his first kiss, first job, first breakup, high school graduation, war experience, earning a driver’s license. On the contrary, Nick realized what was most important to him and focused on one specific thing; which was nature, he valued nature over women since it had more to offer him personally. For those reasons he also volunteered in the war; acknowledging the fact of being wounded. His role in the war was …show more content…
At the beginning of the story, there was rowboat and a camp rowboat which was drawn up; Nick and his father were on the boat and his Uncle George and the young Indian on the other. As they were traveling, Nick was very scared and asked his father, “Where are we going, Dad?” “Over to the Indian camp. There is an Indian lady very sick (69).” Since Nick was the only minor and wasn’t as experienced as his father or Uncle was, he had a different feelings towards what was actually happening. Nick saw many things on this that was kind of unusual for …show more content…
His clothing was all torn and his hands were scraped and there were sand and cinders driven up under his nails. As he went by the lousy crut of a brakeman, he was hit and he lit on his knees beside the track and realized he had a big bump coming up. He noticed there a fire on side of the track, below the railway; since Nick is very curious, he cut into the woods to come up to the fire through the trees but had beechnut burrs under his shoes. After meeting Ad, Nick learned that Ad’s heart is slow, and it only beats forty a minute. Nick figured it was true and confirmed it by doing an activity which involved him counting his heartbeat. Furthermore, there was a man that walked up them and Nick knew right away that is was a Negro because of his voice. Ad introduced him as Bugs. At the dinner a little man arrived and didn’t like Nick so he tried to pick a fight but Ad stopped him. Nick asked why is he so angry, Bugs told Nick explained to Nick that the reason why is because him and his were written up few time because of an unpleasantness marriage in New York. Bugs and the little man met in jail; bugs was caught for cutting a man and little man was caught for beating people out of anger. After successfully hearing the story, it was very late and Nick had to walk back home from fire across the clearing to the railway tracks. On his way back, he still had a sandwich in his hand and looking back from