Camping Out

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Camping Out

• By Ernest Hemingway

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Earnest Hemingway

• Ernest Hemingway His Life and Works
• The Star/Hemingway Page

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Pre-reading

• As you prepare to read Hemingways essay, take a
  minute or two to think about your own experiences
  in nature or any unknown place you once visited.
  If you have ever camped out or attended summer
  camp, for example, ho did you prepare for, enter
  into, and survive the experience? What problems
  did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

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In-reading

• a relief map (par. 2)
• grub (informal, colloquial) food (par. 20
• ex Grubs up! (The meal is ready.)
• The call of the wild (par. 3)
• milk toast (par. 3) a man who is extremely mild,
  ineffectual, unmanly, namby-pamby
• The proper way is (par 14) Is this a personal
  opinion? An authoritative judgment? A moral
  position?

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In-reading

• Any man of average office intelligence can make
  at least as good a pie as his wife (par. 19)
  Hemingways assumption is that the wife bakes the
  pie which the husband of average intelligence can
  emulate. How do modern view of gender roles
  challenge or support this contention?

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Building vocabulary

• A. enduring
• B. brave
• C. longest
• D. burned crisp
• E. seriously
• F. requirement
• G. sequence
• H. seriously
• I. cook up
• J. fastening

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Understanding the writers ideas

• 1. He wants the reader to know how to enjoy
  campinghow to camp in style.
• 2. Being rested and in good condition, or being a
  tired nervous wreck.
• 3. Because it works, because it is cheap, and the
  odor is not offensive.

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Understanding the writers ideas

• 4. No in clear weather just so long as you drape
  mosquito netting over yourself and have plenty of
  covers above and below.
• 5. Trout, pars. 14-15 pie, pars 19-23. Both are
  easy.
• 6. He claims it is also necessary to be
  comofortable.

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Understanding the writers techniques

• 1. Being unprepared for a vacation camping trip
  can turn the occasion into a painful event. The
  thesis is mostly implied in pars. 1-3.
• 2. The processes described are to protect
  against insects (5-7) to get a good nights rest
  (8-10) to cook a trout (14-150 to make pancakes
  (16) to make pie (19-23)

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Understanding the writers techniques

• 3. In pars. 1 and 2, Hemingway contrast the good
  and the bad camper, which serves to organize the
  rest of the essay as he attempts to show the
  reader how to be a good camper.
• 4. Although not a straight journalistic article,
  the humorous yet informative style is appropriate
  as a newspaper item, perhaps in a Living
  section, and so on.

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Understanding the writers techniques

• 5. In classifying types of insects and antidotes
  for example, pars. 4-6.
• 6. See answer 4.
• 7. Because it returns to the controlling contrast
  of roughing it vs. being comfortable.