Transcript Camping Out

Camping Out
By Ernest
Hemingway
Earnest Hemingway
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Pre-reading
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As you prepare to read Hemingway’s 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?
In-reading
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a relief map (par. 2):
grub (informal, colloquial): food (par. 20
ex: Grub’s 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?
In-reading
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“Any man of average office intelligence can
make at least as good a pie as his wife” (par.
19): Hemingway’s 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?
Building vocabulary
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A. enduring
B. brave
C. longest
D. burned crisp
E. seriously
F. requirement
G. sequence
H. seriously
I. cook up
J. fastening
Understanding the writer’s ideas
1. He wants the reader to know how to
enjoy camping—how 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 writer’s ideas
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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.
Understanding the writer’s
techniques
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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 night’s rest
(8-10); to cook a trout (14-150; to make
pancakes (16); to make pie (19-23)
Understanding the writer’s
techniques
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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.
Understanding the writer’s
techniques
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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.