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- In a rowboat saling to the camp.
- The setting is in a camp with shanties. The husband is laying in a bunk in a shanty and the woman is about to give birth to a baby boy and lays in the upper bunk.
- In North America

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Young
He doens't want to die
He doesn't know what a labor is - pg. 14 l. 1-7

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The father seems to have some doctor skills, as we can see on page 14.

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-An Indian village with shanties
-North America
-a rowing boat

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He is young and unexperienced:
Pg. 2 l.1: "This lady is going to have a baby" she said. "I know". "You don't know"

pg.5 l.4:
"Do ladies always have such a hard times having babies? Nick asked"

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He is very protective, especially of Nick. "Nick lay back with his father’s arm around him." Pg 1, line 9

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Helping other people, growing up,

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-Curious & brave (in the end of the story, Nick has just seen the Indian father dead, but he still askes questions about life and stuff)

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Manhood, coming of age, men and masculinity, birth and death, sexism - childbirth becomes a mans job, woman being held down.

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The father is proud of himself, and we se that, after he has finished the operation. "He was feeling exalted and talkative as footballplayers in the dressingroom afer a game."

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She seems a bit aggressive, since she bit Uncle George, seen on line 34, page 14

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She's in labor and she's young "Inside on a wooden bunk lay a young indian woman. She'd been trying to have her baby for two days" pg 1. l. 16

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-selfish (His baby boy has just been born, but he kills himself instead of taking care of his newborn child and mother of his child

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On a lake in a rowing boat
In a camp with shanties

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Not very strong mentally, kills himself because he couldn't stand things.
“He couldn’t stand things, I guess.”

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The indian man is laying on the bunk bed because he's food is in pain. He also smokes.

pg. 1 l. 23 "He had cut his food very badly with an axe three days before"
"He was smoking a pipe"

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He's a doctor and he loves his son.p14 linje 1-7

He's a kind man because he helps the woman give birth. s.12 linje 14

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He smokes cigars pg 1. l. 3

He is using a bad language: "damn squaw bitch!" p.2 l.35

He gets bit by the indian lady and keeps looking down on his arm p.3 l.24

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We don't think that he wants to be a doctor, he doesn't seem so interested in whats going on. "Nicks curiousity had been long gone.", he doesn't want to look when his father is sewing the indian woman.

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She is giving birth to a baby. She scared, while she's having a caesarian

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He commit suicide

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She is in labor, in a lot of pain (bites the uncle whilst having a caesarian).

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She does not play a big role in her own sons birth.
"She did not know what had
become of the baby or anything."

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Suffering (both mentally and physically), man and masculinity, mortality, innocence

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The indian woman bits him in his arm, and helps holding her down and calmed.

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on their way to the indian camp they sail through a mist.
- page 1, line 8

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He commit suicide - pg. 15 l. 32-35
He had cut his food very badly pg. 13 l.23

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curious

“This lady is going to have a baby, Nick,” he said. “I know,” said Nick. “You don’t know,” said his father. “Listen to me. What she is going through is called being in labor. The baby wants to be born and she wants it to be born. All her muscles are trying to get the baby born. That is what is happening when she screams.” “I see,” Nick said.

““Why did he kill himself, Daddy?”

“I don’t know, Nick. He couldn’t stand things, I guess.”
“Do many men kill themselves, Daddy?”
“Not very many, Nick.”
“Do many women?”
“Hardly ever.”

Delicate “He was looking away so as not to see what his father was doing.”

Looks up to his dad

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brave
doctor (s.15 l. 16)

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Arrogant - “But her screams are not important. I don’t hear them because they are not important.” Does not give the indian woman anasthetic

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Pregnant, trying to have her baby for two days, page 14
She is in labor - in pain

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mysterious - he just kills himself while his wife is giving birth to his child

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Takes place at night and they leave in the early morning.
Primitive surroundings
- Using a rowing boat'
- carrying a lantern
- Giving birth in a bunk bed
- The way the doctor operates
- No anasthetics

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Generous - Gives cigarettes to the indians

Maybe he knows the indian - "young Indian who had rowed Uncle George over laughed at him - after he was bitten"

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- He starts to gives the indians cigarettes, like he has been there before.

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Helpful
Sympathic - "Wants to give the indian woman anasthetic"

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Friends with the indians

“Uncle George was smoking a cigar in the dark. The young Indian pulled the boat way up the beach. Uncle George gave both the Indians cigars.”

Helps the doctor and the woman

“Later when he started to operate Uncle George and three Indian men held the woman still. She bit Uncle George on the arm and Uncle George said, “Damn squaw bitch!” and the young Indian who had rowed Uncle George over laughed at him.”

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There is a development in the way he cares about his son. In the beginning he has his arm around Nick, in the end he sits in the other side of the boat.

He seems superior.

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Growing up - the boat
Dead and birth

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An initiation story: Nick is initiated/introduced/thrown into the adult world, experiencing both life and death in one night. 

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An initiation story: Nick is initiated/introduced/thrown into the adult world, experiencing both life and death in one night. 

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Was trapped in the upper bunk and therefore had to listen to and witness his wife's pain, but not least the white men's arrogant comments about his woman. Probably felt humilieated and lost his pride. therefore he committed suicide.

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Was trapped in the upper bunk and therefore had to listen to and witness his wife's pain, but not least the white men's arrogant comments about his woman. Probably felt humilieated and lost his pride. therefore he committed suicide.

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Bites Uncle G, which suggests that they know each other. Probably had an affair with him.

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Bites Uncle G, which suggests that they know each other. Probably had an affair with him.

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Might be the father of the baby, bc he was given cigars by Indian men in the beginning + stayed behind after the operation. He had to sort something out.

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Might be the father of the baby, bc he was given cigars by Indian men in the beginning + stayed behind after the operation. He had to sort something out.

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Feels superior - her screams don't matter!!

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Feels superior - her screams don't matter!!

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Feels curious in the beginning, but later on looks away, things are too much, he sits alone in the boat on the way.

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Feels curious in the beginning, but later on looks away, things are too much, he sits alone in the boat on the way.

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The bloody experience was too much for him. Shocked.