Indian Camp - Ernest Hemingway
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Lesson duration is: 100 minItems in this lesson
Slide 1 - Slide
Slide 2 - Video
Slide 3 - Slide
Slide 4 - Slide
What is the setting of the story?
Slide 5 - Open question
What is the situation in the shanty? Identify the conflict.
Slide 6 - Open question
What is the attitude of the Indians outside the shanty?
Slide 7 - Open question
What is the role of uncle George? What is your impression of him?
Slide 8 - Open question
What makes this a very characteristic Hemingway story?
Slide 9 - Open question
“That is one for the medical journals” Explain what is meant.
Slide 10 - Open question
Why did the Indian husband in the shanty commit suicide?
Slide 11 - Open question
What is autobiographical in the story?
Slide 12 - Open question
Explain Hemingway’s use of images of sight, sound and smell.
Slide 13 - Open question
Explain the symbolic meaning of the river.
Slide 14 - Open question
Comment on the father-son relationship.
Slide 15 - Open question
Read the response of the father to the woman screaming. What kind of man is the doctor?
Slide 16 - Open question
Should Nick’s father have brought his son to the camp? Explain.
Slide 17 - Open question
Slide 18 - Slide
Themes? Explain.
Slide 19 - Open question
List the advantages and disadvantages of introducing a child to the realities of life at an early age.
