HIlls LIke White Elephant
Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway is a story about a girl and a manwaiting for their train and discuss the girl‟s upcoming abortion. The man does not want the girl,
Jig, to have the child; he wants her all to himself. Jig, however, does want the child but is scaredabout the abortion and wants to please the man by doing what he wants.
“The Love of My Life,” by T. Coraghessan Boyle is a story about a girl, China, and her boyfriend, Jeremy, who have unprotected sex during a camping trip resulting in Chi na‟s pregnancy. China does not want the child but does not want to get an abortion. She wants thematter to stay a secret and has Jeremy get rid of the newborn upon its birth, because all she wantsis Jeremy. Hemingway and Boyle use external conflict combined with imagery and dialogue toexpress the central idea abortion.
The central idea in “Hills Like White Elephants” and “The Love of My Life” is abortion.In “Hills Like White Elephants,” the man wants Jig to get an abortion: “…„It‟s an awfully simple ope ration, Jig,‟ the man said. „It‟s really not an operation at all…They just let the air in and it‟sall perfectly natural‟…” (2). The man assures Jig that the abortion will be simple and everything will be all right. All the man wants is Jig, not Jig and a child.
In “The Love of My Life,” the couple knows they cannot have the child, but Chinarefuses to get an abortion; instead, they just get rid of the child:
“She said one thing then, only one thing, her voice as pinched and hollow as the sound of the wind in the gutters
…„Get rid of it.Just get rid of it‟…” (171). China gives birth in a motel room and has Jeremy clean up the mess and dispose of the baby in order to keep the pregnancy a secret.The conflict in
“Hills Like White Elephants” and “The Love of My Life” is
Jig, to have the child; he wants her all to himself. Jig, however, does want the child but is scaredabout the abortion and wants to please the man by doing what he wants.
“The Love of My Life,” by T. Coraghessan Boyle is a story about a girl, China, and her boyfriend, Jeremy, who have unprotected sex during a camping trip resulting in Chi na‟s pregnancy. China does not want the child but does not want to get an abortion. She wants thematter to stay a secret and has Jeremy get rid of the newborn upon its birth, because all she wantsis Jeremy. Hemingway and Boyle use external conflict combined with imagery and dialogue toexpress the central idea abortion.
The central idea in “Hills Like White Elephants” and “The Love of My Life” is abortion.In “Hills Like White Elephants,” the man wants Jig to get an abortion: “…„It‟s an awfully simple ope ration, Jig,‟ the man said. „It‟s really not an operation at all…They just let the air in and it‟sall perfectly natural‟…” (2). The man assures Jig that the abortion will be simple and everything will be all right. All the man wants is Jig, not Jig and a child.
In “The Love of My Life,” the couple knows they cannot have the child, but Chinarefuses to get an abortion; instead, they just get rid of the child:
“She said one thing then, only one thing, her voice as pinched and hollow as the sound of the wind in the gutters
…„Get rid of it.Just get rid of it‟…” (171). China gives birth in a motel room and has Jeremy clean up the mess and dispose of the baby in order to keep the pregnancy a secret.The conflict in
“Hills Like White Elephants” and “The Love of My Life” is