Essays --

Ernest Hemingway uses the various events in Nick Adams behavior to expose the reader to the accounts of youth, loss, and death throughout his novel In Our Time. young person very often plays its part in war, and since In Our Time relates itself very frequently to war throughout it is not a surprise that the theme of youthful innocence arises in many of the stories. In Indian camp out the youthful innocence is shown in the last sentence of the story In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the gravy holder with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die. (19) When this sentence and the conversation Nick and his father have before they take out on the boat are combined in thought it shows that because of Nicks term at the time that he does not yet understand the impression of death. Throughout the book youth has a complicated relationship with aging. This canister be seen in Three-Day Blow when Nick and Bill are drinking, playacting childis h and just having fun. They talk about each others fathers and about disoriented opportunities even though they cannot really understand what they are...