Essays --

Ernest Hemingway uses the confused events in gouge Adams life to expose the reader to the themes of youth, loss, and death end-to-end his novel In Our Time. Youth very often plays its part in war, and since In Our Time relates itself very frequently to war throughout it is non a surprise that the theme of youthful innocence arises in more of the stories. In Indian Camp the youthful innocence is shown in the conk sentence of the story In the early morning on the lake sit down in the stern of the boat with his preceptor rowing, he felt kind of sure that he would never die. (19) When this sentence and the conversation Nick and his father have before they get on the boat are feature in thought it shows that because of Nicks age at the time that he does not yet bring in the concept of death. Throughout the book youth has a complicated relationship with aging. This can be seen in Three-Day Blow when Nick and Bill are drinking, acting childish and just having fun. They talk almo st each others fathers and about missed opportunities even though they cannot really understand what they are...