Short Story Indian Camp - 1114 Words

Jules Yurand Paredes IB English HL 1 Mrs. James 1B Summer Reading Assignment The two short stories, â€Å"Indian Camp† a short story by Ernest Hemmingway and â€Å"Two Words† another short story by Isabel Allende, are very similar but have a few differences. The two stories share theme with both main characters Belisa and Nick. However they are also different when it comes to the purpose of the story and its outcomes. The two short stories are similar in a coming of age sense yet the way the theme is delivered is different as the outcomes of the characters are. The short story â€Å"Two words† creates a romantic atmosphere that is introduced after relaying the hardships that Beliso went through. The colonel is mad in love after hearing the two words that were given to him from Beliso, â€Å"every time he thought of those two words, he thought of Belisa Crepusculario, and his senses were inflamed with the memory of her feral scent, her fiery heat, the whisper of her hair, and her sweetmint breath in his ear, unti l he began to go around like a sleepwalker†(Isabel Allende) the reader is pulled into worrying about the Colonel and reading on. The second story â€Å"Indian Camp† introduces in the first paragraph â€Å"She had been trying to have her baby for two days†(Ernest Hemingway), this is a situation that has been going for a very long time than usual and catches the readers interest. 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