“‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’
‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick, It all depends.”’
Questions:
A.Identify the work and the author.
B.What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?
C.Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son’s question?
A.Ernest Hemingway: Indian Camp.
B.Life and death.
C.When the father says that dying is pretty easy, he might be thinking about the self-murdered husband. But when he reflects on the wife's miracle survival of the violent pain in the whole process of birth, he adds the final sentence. Dying is both hard and easy, it all depends on individuals.
