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E. Hemingway, "Nick Adams' Stories"
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| Luck | Date: Friday, 12.02.2010, 22:10 | Message # 1 |
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| How do you think, why did Hemingway write this story? Here he focused mostly on some unpleasant things, but why? Was his aim only to describe horrible reality?
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| Teacher | Date: Friday, 12.02.2010, 23:05 | Message # 2 |
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| I suppose, there's no need to describe horrible reality, because we all live on this planet, called "Earth", in this society, called "Humanity", so we know much about the world around us. In my opinion, Hemingway shows us not the unpleasant things as they are, but the reaction of people who're involuntary spectators of them. I mean little Nick. He is on his way to learn the real life, and this is one of the steps on this way. The step is how giving the birth and death can happen.
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| MissJane | Date: Monday, 15.02.2010, 09:57 | Message # 3 |
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| Well, I may be mistaken, but the more fiction I read, the more convinced I become that the most important thing to people is to appreciate LIFE. Life is multifaceted, it can stab a person's heart, it can stellify him, it can make him sick of boredom. Hemingway shows one side of our life but nevertheless, he vaguely hints at the others. The birth and the death, the beginning and the end go hand in hand together, extremes meet. No matter what happens, we should learn the real value of the events. I think this is the author's idea.
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| Asya | Date: Tuesday, 16.02.2010, 10:54 | Message # 4 |
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| I agree with MissJane. Though I didn't like Indian Camp at all I guess I've understood the idea. We wouldn't worship Life if there were no death. And one more thing. Hemingway describes nature, calm and usual, at the beginning and at the end of the story. I tend to think that this detail shows us that it's normal, someone is born, someone has died. The river flows, the Life flows...
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| Teacher | Date: Tuesday, 23.02.2010, 13:07 | Message # 5 |
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| So let's continue our conversation about Nick and his family. In the next chapter we see Nick's parents. Who are they? What are their relationships? Do they love each other?
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| Ayayulia | Date: Sunday, 28.03.2010, 18:39 | Message # 6 |
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| I don't like the stories, such a style is not for me. As for me there are enough difficulties and problems in our real life, and we get accostomed that everything would be better (it based on our mentality, I think). And the stories show the "reality of life", where upleasant things prevail. There are many positive things, events, why don't we talk over them?
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| Sileneee | Date: Monday, 07.03.2011, 23:00 | Message # 7 |
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| I like these stories,they are rather unusual,these stories are true to life.The story "The Indian Camp" shows that birth and death are close to each other.They make the balance.
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| Teacher | Date: Wednesday, 09.11.2011, 01:19 | Message # 8 |
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| Sileneee, can you say that birth and death are opposite things? Or are they smth. else?
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| mrsbukale | Date: Friday, 04.05.2012, 10:10 | Message # 9 |
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| Nick is a man who is fed up with his life. He loved a woman, he was happy. He has perceived life`s wonderings but once everyone has a moment in his life when everything irritates. The author uses repetitions to show the brightest irritation. Added (04.05.2012, 10:10)
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Hemingway is really very laconic. I like his style of writing because it contains the facts which are easy at first sight but they have very deep psychology.
Hemingway`s view on war is that war is a senseless waste of life. It`s not a glory. It`s an ordeal of life where everyone fights for himself. There is no mercy. There exist only chaos, death, arms and hell.
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| Strawberry1992 | Date: Thursday, 24.05.2012, 22:34 | Message # 10 |
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| Through the character of Nick Adams Hemingway demonstrates how those who experienced the hell of war. These stories show how Nick's character changes before, during, and after the war. We see the young Nick Adams fishing in one story. Ironically, the young Nick Adams comes to an appreciation of nature and existence in this story, dreamily beliving as he rows a boat with his father in the early morning, that he will never die. Before the war, Nick has idealistic impressions of war as smth noble and heroic. His patriotism and his belief in the cause he is fighting for begin to change when Nick encounters the brutal realities of war.
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I think that Hemingway wrote these stories to show us that not only good events happen in life, that unexpected and bad events may happen to everybody and we must understand that the life is goes on. 
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