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1、A Study on Contrary Images in Indian CampContentsAbstract31.Introduction4 1.1 The outline of the story4 1.2 Nicks growth in conflicts42.Studies on contrary images5 2.1 Dark night and dawn5 2.2 White men and Indians5 2.3 Man and woman63.Studies on contrary effects7 3.1 Pain and joy7 3.2 Birth and dea
2、th84.Conclusion9Works Sited10A Study on Contrary Images in Indian CampAbstract: Death is a recurrent theme in Hemingways works. In Indian Camp, he presents death through a childs perspective. After witnessing the birth of a new life and the death at the same time, Nick starts to consider about life.
3、 This change is mainly from the contrasts that he observes. Besides birth and death, the strange and remote nationIndians first captures his eyes and the way the society of India differs from theirs makes Nick consider the differences between different nations and even the classification of people.
4、Later during the surgeon, his fathers attitude towards him and the Indian woman also puzzles little Nick. This paper will analyze the contrary images in Indian Camp to interpret the themes.Key words: Indian Camp, death, contrast, growthA Study on Contrary Images in Indian Camp1. Introduction1.1 The
5、outline of the storyThrough the perspective of a child, Nick, this novel presents the entire process of death. In a late night, Nick followed his doctor father to the Indian camp to help a woman who had trouble in labor. She had been trying to have her baby for two days. When Nick and his father wal
6、ked into the shanty along with two Indians, the woman lying on the wooden bunk was screaming and her husband, who cut his foot badly with an ax three days before, was lying on the upper bunk. He was smoking a pipe and the room smelled very bad. Without bringing the anesthetic, Nicks father operated
7、on that Indian woman in the absence of anesthetic. When everything calmed down and the baby was finally born, the father on the upper bunk was found dead. His throat had been cut from ear to ear. The blood had flowed down into a pool where his body sagged the bunk. As a child, Nick witnessed the pro
8、cess of both birth and death, and it is the first time that he felt the cruelty of life. On their way back, Nick kept asking his father questions about life and death.1.2 Nicks growth in conflictsIn the trip to Indian camp, Nick started to know the world through what he saw. This change is mainly fr
9、om the contrasts that he observed. The strange and remote nationIndians first captured his eyes and the way the society of India differs from theirs made Nick consider the differences between different nations or even the classification of people. During the operation, Nick cared about the Indian wo
10、mans pain, he asked his father, “Cant you give her something to eat to make her stop screaming?” but his father was indifferent to the womans pain, he kept telling Nick what was happening and what should be done. Nick saw his fathers ruthlessness to the Indian woman and he began to compare his fathe
11、rs attitude towards himself and the Indian woman. The biggest conflict is the birth of the child and the death of the father. He experienced death for the first time and it is at the same moment of the birth of a child. All these events happened in the Indian camp slashed his calm childhood and push
12、ed him to ponder about the life in reality. 2. Studies on contrary images2.1 Dark night and dawnThe alternation of dark night and dawn represents the alternation of the moon and sun, which also implies the cyclic process of life. And life and death are always boned to each other. According to Jungs
13、view of collective unconsciousness, the night represents the death and the dawn symbolizes new life. Because the night is filled with mysteries and the unknown, and the dawn represents hope. Hemingway always kept exploring death. In Indian camp, the authors cited a large number of images, exploring
14、all kinds of relations between life and death. The novel begins on a dark night and ends at dawn. During the dark night, the authors set up a lot of lights: the light came from Uncle Georges cigar; the light of a lantern carried by two Indians; and the light of the shanties where the Indian bark pee
15、lers lived. All these lights that are shining in the dark night imply a special significance. Although the night symbolizes death, but it is not too desperate, and these lights reveal the hope contained in the authors mind. After the child was born, Nicks father also carried a lamp, looking in the upper bunk to see how the babys father was, only found that he was dead and lying in a pool of blood. As an underage child, Nick witnessed the birth of a child and a fathers death. The novel ends at dawn and the morning always gives hope. The image of night and dawn are us
