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I found reading “Hills Like White Elephants” to be very challenging. I thought it was confusing and hard to understand. I personally did not like the reading. After reading the short story the first time I was lost and I did not understand what was happening in it. The second time I read it I understood it a little bit better. The white elephants are something of little to no value. I think that the train is a one-way operation and there is no stopping. I that the man wants to go, but the girl does not want to go. It seems to me that the American man and the girl “Jig” have a lot of issues with one another. They got into an argument over little things that she would say, for instance when she was talking about the hills looking like white elephants.

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