...The short story "Red from Green" was written by Maile Meloy in 2009. The story is about a fifteen year old girl called Sam. Sam is from Montana, which is also where the setting is played. The narrator - Maile Maloy - is born and raised in Montana. This might be why she chose to set the setting here. Sam's mother is dead, so Sam lives alone with her father. Sam and her father's relationship seem very good. Sam's a near-future sophomore, but has recently been offered a scholarship to a boarding school back east - she hasn't accepted the offer yet. Originally the "going to boarder school thing" was the father idea, but every time the subject came up, he looked very dismayed. (P. 8 L. 6-7). She is very insecure in herself and her choices, which we can see by her way of doubting a lot when having to take choices throughout the story - "She had a sense that she wasn't equipped for it (boarding school). And she was wondering if she really had perfect teeth (she was told that she had perfect teeth earlier in the story)". (P. 9 L. 62-63). For as long as Sam can remember, she has always been down the river every summer with her father. No matter how the weather was - "in dozen rainstorms, and in hot sun that burned the print of swimsuit straps into her shoulders."(P. 8 L. 10-12). But in the story we experience their last float trip down the river. Sam and her father went down the river with her uncle - Harry - and her uncle's client - Layton. At a time in the story Sam and Layton are...
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...That & Indian Camp Comparative analyses, The two short stories are quite alike, in both stories there a little naive boy who we follow from their point of view, two macho men who seems to be thinking about themselves. And both have a life changing moment for a little innocent boy. Nick is the main character in Indian camp, he is also the only one we see from the inside and outside. His father calls him Nicky one time, on their way home from the Indian camp to hold what is left of his childhood. When they were sailing over the river to the Indian camp, ‘Nick lay back with his father’s arms around him’ so we can see that he had gone trough a little development in is growth from a young boy, to a man. In the other short story the growing up process had gone terribly wrong, a man with a relationship to the boy is unknown, was shot dead. They were out shooting kangaroos’, and the boy did not want to. So when the man said ‘‘if you can’t do it now you never will’’ he probably believed that he had no other choice than shoot a kangaroo to become a man. I believe the plots are different, in just like that, the climax is building up to one single sentence, ‘‘The crow barked’’ and then the climax was realised. When in Indian Camp the suicide was suddenly and therefore quite choking for me. The fact that the baby was not his could be a big shame to bear, so he took the coward solution of taking his own life. Life and death is also a theme in the short stories, so to let the innocent...
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...A Literary Analysis A careful examination of the short story Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway reveals the usage of such literary devices as plot and theme to deliver both the unfolding story and the meaning behind it. The theme of the story is a powerful message about the realities of life and the plot is the canvas upon which the theme is painted. Clearly, both the plot and the theme are of equal importance in Indian Camp and are the most significant literary tools used throughout the story. Hemingway intended for the plot to be simple and not to be over analyzed. It is how the theme emerges and how the plot helps to reveal the story's true meaning [theme] that must be analyzed. A doctor brings his son Nick and 'Uncle George' to a house call upon an Indian reservation. They must travel by river in small boats, then through a thick forest for some time. Once they arrive at the house, Nicks father must operate on a pregnant Indian whose been in labor for two days and is clearly experiencing birth complications. The pregnant Indian is in a great deal of pain and her husband offers no words of comfort as he feels a sense of self pity knowing that he can't help his wife. Eventually Nick's father delivers the baby and stitches up the exhausted mother, then he turns to the husband of the Indian women only to find that he had committed suicide while lying in bed. Assumably he could not bear...
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...According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of conflict is a mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands ”(Merriam-Webster) Victims of the German Concentration Camps had positive attitudes towards conflict. The author of Night, Elie Wiesel a young boy who had a positive attitude towards conflict. Keeping a positive attitude helps you in any situation. There were some personal letters from Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of Japanese American Incarceration During World War Ⅱand a Librarian Who Made a Difference that show why being positive can help you later in life. It is best to have a positive reaction towards conflict in time of war. First, Louise Ogawa is one person...
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...Lucy Character Lucy is a young girl whose wealthy parents send her to camp every summer. She is adventurous and free thinker, not caring what others think about her, unlike her friend Lois. She becomes unhappy with her life in Chicago because of problems with her parents. We never know why or how she disappears when the campers go on the canoe trip. The similarities Lucy and Mrs. Das share with each other is that they are both female who lives in US. As the story begins to grow more intense we find out that these two females aren’t honest. For example, Mrs. Das lied about her affair that happened eight years ago that she cheated on her husband with his friend. Mrs. Das became pregnant with a child and hide this secret from her husband. Setting Araby Setting and story are closely integrated in "Araby." The alleyway, the busy commercial street, the open door of Mangan’s house, the room in back where the priest died, the way to school—all are parts of the locations which shape the life and consciousness of the narrator. Before the narrator goes to Araby, it is his thoughts about this exotic, mysterious location that crystallize for him his adoration of Mangan’s sister, who is somehow locked into his "Eastern enchantment" (paragraph 12) of devotion and unfulfilled love. At the end the lights are out, the place is closing down for the night, and the narrator recognizes Araby as a symbol of his own lack of reality and unreachable hopes. Seemingly, all his aims are dashed by his...
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...community service hours working as a camp counselor at a summer camp. It was a 4 week program and I was really enjoying it. All I had to do was help kids with activates like archery, hiking and canoeing. It was a lot of fun even though I was the youngest counselors there. The second youngest counselor and I quickly became friends but because we were the youngest we often got stuck with the jobs that no one else wanted to do like washing the restrooms and cleaning dishes after meals. His name was Ryan and he was a native who lived with his parents just down the street from the camp. I had fun and made friends. Before I go farther into the story I need to explain to you some things about the camp. Back in the days before the camp was built a small river ran through the property. This river powered a wheat mill that was used to grind wheat for natives in the surrounding area. As the number of natives decreased so did the need for the flour mill. It was soon abandon and left to rot. But then some entrepreneurs came along and say the land had potential for being a summer camp. So they dug a manmade lake, built some cabins and activate centers and converted the wheat mill into a power source. They built a reservoir to increase water flow and increase the amount of electricity that could be produced. When they needed power they simply opened a water gate and let the water and the old mill do the rest. Due to the increase of water flow the river began to flood its banks in low lying...
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...side to the Nazi government were taken to concentration camps, these were spread around Germany, they had horrible conditions and caused much trauma to the families and people who were in it, these were caused by the types of activities that were happening over there. In this essay, I will be talking about Why, when, where, who and what are concentration camps, the types of activities were held and the long term impacts of the holocaust on the jewish people. Concentration camps greatly impact the jewish people, concentration camps were camps in which people were detained, usually under extremely harsh conditions, where no...
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...Indian Camp The Horror of Life from Birth to Death During the Modernist Movement, existentialist writers wrote about the meaninglessness of life. Existentialists believe that life is a struggle against the nothingness of the world. They believe there is no higher meaning to the existence of man, and they deny the existence of God. Ernest Hemingway portrays three different ways of coping with the meaninglessness of life in his short story “Indian Camp.” The three characters that portray the three different outlooks are Nick’s father, Uncle George, and the Indian father. Ernest Hemingway uses the environment in his short story “Indian Camp” to develop the thematic vision that there are different ways people can cope with the horror of life from the moment of birth and until death. In the short story, Hemmingway portrays a microcosm of life by including a baby’s birth and a man’s suicide in the short period of the story. The pregnant Indian woman struggles in labor for two days without any medical attention until Nick’s father’s arrival. Nick’s father describes to Uncle George after the procedure, “Doing a Caesarian with a jack-knife and sewing it up with nine-foot, tapered gut leaders” (18). The description of Ernest Hemingway INDIAN CAMP I guess the beginning of the story is quite usual and perhaps even banal. The son wants to watch his father brings new life into the world. He is a young boy who helps his father. But on the other hand, despite the fact that there is only...
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...“The Big Two-Hearted River: Part I”: The Trek to Life If only the past lit up as simply as a room illuminates at the flick of a switch. Yet the overwhelming darkness of a memory can never brighten; despairingly, a soldier’s worst nightmares overshadow his dreams and cloud his days. In Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River: Part I,” a wounded soldier returns home, scouring the wreckage of his life for sanity and spiritual restoration. The short story presents a journey through symbolism, metaphor, and imagery, pessimistically depicting the battles that a soldier faces after war’s mortars shatter his livelihood. In this story, Nick embarks on a journey to cope with the horrific memories that haunt his every thought and action. As he passes through the burned-over town of Seney to his ideal camping ground, Nick tries to forget about his nightmarish past through the distractions that nature flourishes. Charles Oliver reveals in Hemingway A to Z the tension tugging Nick’s thoughts back from present to past: “Nick is on the camping trip in order to not think about whatever it is that has traumatized him. . . . Nick is working hard to forget it so he can get his life back together” (26). As Nick treks alone through the forest, he allows nature to soothe his mind and body and guide him back to his roots, abandoning his concerns. Though the war has ended, and Nick survived, he feels as though his soul has already died. Nick’s trip satisfies his disposition as an avid camper...
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...was a political man and was involved with the union activism that took place in the university classical music department of all places. He promoted the radical Industrial Workers of the World at Berkley and was fired for his pacifism in 1918. (1). Pete would follow in his father’s footsteps with his political beliefs as well as his love for music. When Pete was a young boy, he would read about American Indians and how the members of the tribe would share everything so that everyone was taken care of and no one was left to fend for themselves. Pete’s early beliefs on how a country should be run was adopted by the books he read. He was a self-proclaimed communist and at 19 he joined the Young Communist League. Pete attended Harvard for a short time, but dropped out and went to New York City to work for Alan Lomax at the Archives of American Folk Music. (2). He would get an education on the history of folk music and various artist. It was during this time that Pete organized the Almanac Singers. The group included himself, Lee Hayes, Millard Lampell, Sis Cunningham, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee. Woody Guthrie would often...
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...folklore/fables, myths, and rites of passage support the theme of human struggle against nature in the stories "The Old Man and the Sea," "Indian Camp," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway. Through comparative analysis of these stories' underlying themes I will address the initiation experiences of his heroes. Human dignity, morality, and the formation of human individuality through mental strife and the struggle against nature are often themes of Hemingway. Humans cope with the complexity of the world by developing simple mental models based on opposite parts. Life and death are together, two extremes of one energy. Life is the active force and death is the inactive force, but they cannot be separated. Thus, they are two aspects of one reality. When people are reading about living beings and mythological beings or those who are dead, they view the word of the dead as a living world. The dead eat, sleep and move. In the book “The Hero in Hemingway's short stories”, J. DeFalco points out that: " in the Myth there are usually three dominant movements which are cyclic in pattern. They are the departure of the hero, the initiation, and the return from heroic adventure." (17). The movements of the hero to the world where mythological beings dwell is called passage. Usually, the boat, which carries heroes, travels over the river from one bank to another. So, in the myth there is a clear boundary. However, there are no...
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...The Things They Carried is a variety of short stories all put into one book by Tim O'Brien. The stories in this book tell what life was like during the Vietnam War for many of the young soldiers, and their thoughts and feelings when they returned to the United States. Tim O’Brien earned a Purple Heart when he got hit with shrapnel in a grenade attack in Vietnam (NEA, 2007). During the book one of the main characters talked about goes by the name as Kiowa. Kiowa was a Native American and also a Baptist. He was a very honest and trustworthy soldier who always tried to help his fellow soldiers get through the complicated times of the war. Tragically Kiowa’s death during the war showed no dignity towards him. After a long day the platoon decided to settle down along a river, but they soon decided that they set up camp in a sewage field due to the repugnant smell. The rain came down without an end in sight, and the ground bubbled with the extra rain and heat. Out of nowhere rounds of mortar started to fall onto...
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...who fought off pirates and crocodiles before flying off to Never Never Land. The same goes for the youth in Africa where they sought refugee, and fled the camps by whatever means necessary. In the book What Is The What Valentino describes his journey to America to be a miracle, having gone through a dark road which he finally reached the light of. It was because of The Lost Boys Foundation that many lives have been turned around and children have been saved. During the civil war in Sudan in which over 2 million people had died, children were left orphaned; and were living in camps that weren’t run efficiently. Nearly 30,000 children left the camps on a journey to find a place to call home, they faced attacks from animals, starvation, illness’s, even attacks from Soldiers their, yet approximately 11,000 survived. The foundation has made dreams come through one change at a time. Many of these adolescents have not been exposed to what is so accustomed to us; spoons, forks, cell phones, and TV’s. “It’s a group that’s lost in time,” says Sasha Chanoff an American at the camp who prepares the children for their journey to America. The articles show that The Lost Boys Foundation is an effective organization that does their best to assist refugees. According to Mary-Jayne Mckay CBS reporter, “Every Sunday, a plane arrives at the camp to take the boys from Kakuma to New York - and beyond. More than a thousand boys have taken this journey, and at least 3,000 more are slated to go. It's...
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...established themselves on the west bank of Rock River; and Daniel Shaw Haight, who founded a settlement on the east bank (Molyneaux). Halfway between Chicago and Galena, the community was briefly known as "Midway", but quickly became known as "Rockford", because of the excellent ford across the Rock River (Molyneaux). Today, Rockford is the home for 152,871 people (according to the 2010 US census). During the 20th century Rockford was booming; the city placed a big part of the industrial revolution, trained men during World War I and II at Camp Grant, and is the proud owner of the Coronado Theater (Molyneaux). The first business in early Rockford was built in May, 1835 by Germanicus Kent and Thatcher Blake. The business of the settlement- known as Kentville-during the first years included a general store, a blacksmith shop, sawmill, primitive hotel, a crude system of banking, and mail facilities of a sort (Nelson). All were under Kent’s general proprietorship (Nelson). Rockford’s first ferry was also owned by Kent. In September, 1836, the Winnebago County Court granted a license to Kent to establish a ferry where the State street bridge now is (Segar). It was the dream of the early Rockford settlers that Rock river might be developed into one of the great water highways of this inland empire (Segar). Their dream came true in 1844, when the first steamboat successfully traveled down the Rock River, Pecatonica River, and Mississippi River (Segar). The settlement was incorporated as...
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...The hairs on the back of my neck began to prickle, my stomach began to tighten, and I could feel sweat forming on my forehead, as Carol one of the volunteers, began to give me a brief history of the lighthouse and describe the resident ghost. Point Lookout in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, located on a split of land between the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River. Is one of the most haunted sites in Maryland, and maybe the United States. Here numerous disasters have taken place. It was once the location of a Civil War era hospital, a resort hotel destroyed by fire, and many shipwrecks off its sandy beaches. All of which suggest wandering spirits and paranormal happenings. In 1612, John Smith landed at Point Lookout and established a small...
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