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: : Hey everybody! I really need your help! I have an exam in English on Friday and I need some help ysing and finding symbolism in Indian Camp, The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife, and ESPECIALLY(!!!!!!) A Way You'll Never Be! If you can give me any information by thursday I'll be eternally grateful!!!! : For Indain Camp, think of a circle or cycles or cyclical. : Towards the end of the story, the narrator says... : "A B jumped, making a cicle in the water." Can you see : that circle? (One circle? Not many circles? This is what : catches the readers attention) That circle has no beginning : and no ending, or if you like, the beginning of the circle : is also the end of the circle. And that circle is moving : ever away from the point of origin. : Now look at the begining of the story. Nick and his father : are in a boat rowing to the Indian's Camp. And at the end : of the story...they are rowing back. They have described a : circle. They are at the point at which they began, but what : has changed. Two things. The first is that in the beginning : of the story Nick is described as being next to, close to, : his father. But at the end, while his father rows, Nick is in : the back of the boat, *away* from his father. Symbolically, : Nick has grown, grown up somewhat and away from his father. : And the second thing is that he has witnessed the great cycle : of life...birth and death, albeit a special form of death - a : suicide. But these two incidents form a circle. The question is : this, though. When Nick says he was sure he would never die, : is he being juvenile by thinking he, too, is eternal? Or does : he mean he will never die like the Indian on the upper bunk, : by suicide? I lean toward the latter, but I'm not sure. : Now in case Paul H. is not around, let me add a religous : part to the story. Recall again, "A b jumped..." What : is a b? Right, a fish. And what does a fish symbolize? : Right, again, Jesus. Jesus who said "I am the alpha (beginning) : and the Omega (end). And whose greatest "claim to fame" was : rising from the dead. In other words, if the b can be said : to call up (not symbolize, it's too tenuous for me), but call : up Jesus, then the reference to a circle or a cyclic pattern, : life and death, is strengthed.

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