"The Indian Camp ".Should Children Be Exposed to Harsh Realities of Life at a Young Age?
Should children be exposed to harsh realities of life at a young age?
Write a response of about 600-800 words to this question based on the short story Indian Camp.
Children are yet to be mature in doing decisions, differentiating between good and bad and to resist what is considered bad influence to them. They still need a lot of guidances to learn to analyse critically to make the right choices when facing hardships in their lives. Through the problems they faced and they are exposed they will learn faster. However, exposing children to harsh realities of life at a young age is not a wise thing to do. In the short story Indian Camp by Hemingway, Nick was very young when he witnessed birth and death. Children should not be exposed to harsh realities of life when they are too young.
Early exposure of harsh realities of life in children may instill fear in them. Nick witnessed a women giving birth in the short story, where his father performed Cassarian without anaesthetic and proper apparatus. The women screamed in pain and Nick asked if his father could “give her something” to stop the screaming. It is obviously that Nick did not understand the pain the woman felt and why was she in pain. He might be frightened by the yelling because he might not expect that in the process. Whereas the father did not brief Nick what he would be doing and why was he doing so before he brought Nick to the Indian Camp, which caused Nick to be puzzled and unprepared of what he would be seeing. The whole process could actually frightened Nick.
Children may misundersand a completely new thing introduced to them. As the story ends with Nick asking his father “Do ladies always have such a hard time having babies?”,”Do many men kill themselves?” and thinking that he “would never die”. These are the things that he was confused throughout the time he spent in the camp. His father did not really explained the process of labor before and after they went to the camp. Thus Nick
Write a response of about 600-800 words to this question based on the short story Indian Camp.
Children are yet to be mature in doing decisions, differentiating between good and bad and to resist what is considered bad influence to them. They still need a lot of guidances to learn to analyse critically to make the right choices when facing hardships in their lives. Through the problems they faced and they are exposed they will learn faster. However, exposing children to harsh realities of life at a young age is not a wise thing to do. In the short story Indian Camp by Hemingway, Nick was very young when he witnessed birth and death. Children should not be exposed to harsh realities of life when they are too young.
Early exposure of harsh realities of life in children may instill fear in them. Nick witnessed a women giving birth in the short story, where his father performed Cassarian without anaesthetic and proper apparatus. The women screamed in pain and Nick asked if his father could “give her something” to stop the screaming. It is obviously that Nick did not understand the pain the woman felt and why was she in pain. He might be frightened by the yelling because he might not expect that in the process. Whereas the father did not brief Nick what he would be doing and why was he doing so before he brought Nick to the Indian Camp, which caused Nick to be puzzled and unprepared of what he would be seeing. The whole process could actually frightened Nick.
Children may misundersand a completely new thing introduced to them. As the story ends with Nick asking his father “Do ladies always have such a hard time having babies?”,”Do many men kill themselves?” and thinking that he “would never die”. These are the things that he was confused throughout the time he spent in the camp. His father did not really explained the process of labor before and after they went to the camp. Thus Nick