1. Camping Out
By Ernest Hemingway

2. Earnest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway His Life and Works
The Star/Hemingway Page

3. Pre-reading
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?

4. In-reading 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?

5. In-reading
“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?

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

7. 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.

8. Understanding the writer’s 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 ; pie, pars Both are easy.
6. He claims it is also necessary to be comofortable.

9. Understanding the writer’s 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 night’s rest (8-10); to cook a trout (14-150; to make pancakes (16); to make pie (19-23)

10. Understanding the writer’s 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.

11. Understanding the writer’s 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.