Indian Camp

This story starts off with Nick, his father and his Uncle George getting into two Indian canoes. After they cross the misty cold river they get to the Indian camp ground. At the Indian camp ground there is a women who had been going through labor for two days. Nick's father is a doctor who thinks that the baby might be coming out the wrong. Instead of coming out head first he thinks they baby is trying to come out feet first. He was right and he decides the best solution is to have surgery. After the surgery Nick and his father go to congratulate the father, but finds his dead body. The father had killed himself. Uncle George quickly takes Nick out of the room, but it's to late he has already seen everything. On the boat ride home Nick talks to his father about death. He feels so safe with his father that he thinks that he will never die.

At a young age I know how it feels when you are with your parents and you feel invincible. Death seems so far fetch and that it will never happen to you. Nick saw the trouble of labor and the pain that she was going through, but how his father saved her. Then he saw a man who had given up and committed suicide. Through his eyes death seemed so avoidable. Either that his dad will save him or that he would never give up they way that man had. He is so young and naive like most of use we never think we will die.

In class we talked about morality. I fell like in this story it shows that death is all around us, but we refuse to admit that we will die one day too. By reading stories such as "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Indian Camp" it shows the reality of death. Death can happen to any of us at any time.

Why do you think the little boy felt that he would never die after seeing so much death?