In Our Time Reader Response :: time

In Our time Reader Response   In the early morning on the lake sit in the stern of the boat with his arrest rowing, he felt sooner sure that he would neer die (19). The first four readings of In Our Time seem to be primarily focused on the feel/death relationship that life presents. After reading the first story, I have to be perfectly honest in saying that I do not cogitate that I understood all of the underlining themes, nevertheless did start to focus more intently when the story describes the women on the dockage with the dead babies. Automatically, this imagery made me think of the response passage from this flummox of reading. Denying oneself that death exists and that it, ultimately, a pick of everyones life seemed to be a green philosophic element that both of the stories possessed. Just as Nick calm himself that the inevitable would never to him, the women on the pier with their six-day-dead () babies that wouldnt give them up. I think that the connec tion to Hemingways life in these elements possibly show or admit the Lost Generations tendency to deny to themselves that they were susceptible to harm and death. An drill of this is the character in Jack Kerouacs novel On the Road tended to top out a free and reckless lifestyle of drugs, partying, and freedom that seemed to have no limits or consequences.             Another example of the life/death relationship that seems to be exemplified in the first four pieces of Hemingways novel is the conflicts that arise during Indian Camp. rather than Nick expressing the sole fact that he believes he is not leaving to die, I believe that, because of his father, he misunderstood the concept of dying. I believe that the passage that stated, he felt quite sure that he would never die was essentially a reaction to the pregnant womans husbands felo-de-se. Because that was the topic that arose during the story, I believe that Nick interpreted the situation that death was equal to suicide and, in believing that he would never commit suicide, ultimately believes that he will, thus, never die. I also believe that there is significance in the way in which Nicks father spoke to him while performing the caesarean section on the woman. He said something along the lines of you can watch this or not meaning that, even I Nick didnt watch his father perform the surgery, it was still taking place and, thus, just a part or fact of life.