Indian Camp
Indian camp – analysis Mads Jensen The story takes place in America in an Indian reservation, in 1925. Nick and his father and uncle are out fishing in the local Indian reservation, when Nick’s father is called upon because a young Indian woman has been in labour for two days. The husband of the lady in labour has a severely injured foot. He has cut it with an axe a couple of days before. The father ends up operating the baby out without anaesthestic and the woman screaming in agony. After the operation he is very proud. The woman and baby made it, but the father didn’t. He has cut his own throat. He could not stand the racial remarks and the agony that his wife had to go trough. Nick is a young boy, I would say about the age of 8. He admires his father as any other 8 year old boy does. He does not question any of the things that his father does, he accepts it. No matter how bad the things his father does, it will look right in Nick’s eyes. He trusts his father with all his heart. A good example of unquestionable trust is the last line of the story: ”He felt quite sure that he would never die”.