Write a summary of “Hemingway’s ’Primitivism’ and ‘Indian Camp’” by Jeffrey Meyers. Your summary should answer the questions listed below. You may also just answer each question individually. You do not need to rewrite the question.
Please answer each question in detail because my professor is a harsh grader.
How does Meyers start his essay? Why does he start the essay the way he does? What is Meyers trying to show with each critic’s explanation for the Indian suicide that he summarizes?
What question is Meyers’s research essay trying to answer? What is Meyers’s thesis?
Explain some of the different kinds of evidence that Meyers provides to support his thesis. Why does he use these kinds of evidence?
What does Meyers mean by “Hemingway’s primitivism”?
What is Meyers’s final message that he wants his readers to leave his article thinking about? What is his ultimate explanation for the role of the Indian husband in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”?
Important guidelines:
Before you start to summarize the source and discuss it, you need to clearly name the source by full title and the full name of the author and write a topic sentence that organizes your summary paragraphs. Example: In his research essay on “Hemingway’s ‘Primitivism’ and ‘Indian Camp,'” Jeffrey Meyers examines closely Ernest Hemingway’s interest in writing about Native Americans. (Do not just copy or plagiarize my example. Use it as a guide to help you to write your own topic sentence. Note: book titles are italicized and chapter titles are put in quotation marks. If a quote appears inside a quote, then use single quotation marks inside the double quotation marks: “Hemingway’s ‘Primitivism’ and ‘Indian Camp.'” Ending punctuation goes inside the closing quotation marks.)
Write complete sentences and paragraphs. Do NOT just list terms or write fragmented notes. Keep in mind that this is an advanced college English class, so use proper grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. For help with grammar, see:
Remember to properly reference to the author by the last name when referencing the source. When first mentioned, write the full name of an author; thereafter, write the last name. Use phrases like, “According to Meyers” and “Meyers argues.”
Provide proper in-text parenthetical citations per MLA guidelines for all quoted and paraphrased information from the textbook (Do NOT plagiarize.) See MLA in-text guidelines:
Make sure you credit Meyers for his references to other sources; otherwise, it can look like you are taking credit for his work. Example: Meyers refers to the work of Sir James Frazer who wrote on primitive birth rituals that Meyers claims Hemingway had researched in writing “Indian Camp” (qtd. in Meyers 217). Note: When referring to sources quoted by the author and not by you, use proper parenthetical citation (qtd. in last name of author and page number); “qtd” stands for quote.
Do not be too general or short. Be sure to support your answers with evidence and details from the source. Pretend you are explaining the source to someone who has not read it to be sure you include enough details so that someone who has not read the source understands what you are talking about. Write objectively and analytically. See tips for writing about literature
Be sure to summarize and explain the source in your own words and be careful not to rely too heavily on quoting the source. See tips for knowing when to quote:
Be sure to include the Works Cited citations at the end to properly credit the sources you used.
Work Cited
Meyers, Jeffrey. “Hemingway’s ‘Primitivism’ and ‘Indian Camp.'” Twentieth-Century Literature. 34.2 (1988): 211-22
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