Indian Camp

The short story “Indian Camp” is a sequel to the other Ernest Hemingway short story “Three Shots.” The ending is both of these stories are significantly different, and show a great change in the main character, a seven-year-old boy named Nick. In the first story Nick still had the mentality of a young boy, scared of the dark, death, and dying so that he had to summon his father for comfort. In the second story …

…was what would it be like, if you believed you couldn’t die? If you truly believed that someday you wouldn’t be here, and if you drew that from your own personal experiences, not from teachings. Or, perhaps Nick has been scared even more by his experiences that he is just in denial about death, and trying to push it out of his mind. This was an excellent short story, and a bewildering ending.