Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway. The relationship between Nick Adams and his father is very similar to another father-son-relationship. In the novel The Kite Runner, there is a comparable relationship between the main character Amir
Amine Khadir 04/09/2009
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In English we’ve read some short stories about a character named Nick Adams, which were parts of the “Nick Adams Stories” by Ernest Hemingway. We have read “Indian Camp” and “Fathers and Sons”. In both stories we follow a young man named Nick Adams and his development. Both “Indian Camp” and “Fathers and Sons” are concerned with the relationship between Nick Adams and his father. Nick Adams´ father tries to be a role model and teach Nick Adams what’s “right” and “wrong” in life. For example, in “Indian Camp” Nick’s father takes him to an Indian Camp to witness a Native American woman giving birth, because Nick is afraid of death. His father wants him to see birth; he wants Nick to realise the beauty of “life”. It’s seems that Nick’s father uses the woman and her child to prove something. This mission goes terribly wrong, because the woman’s husband commits suicide in front of Nick. Also in “Fathers and Sons” the father tries to teach Nick about love, but it ends with Nick having superficial relationships. This is because the father doesn’t tell Nick how to behave properly to a woman and only tells him about relationships in a very shallow way. Nick greatly admires his father and tries to act and behave the way his father would like him to.
