In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway‚ a young girl struggles with the line between life and death and is caught in the midst of a life changing decision that will inevitably end the relationship between her and a man. As people we tend to over think and analyze every possible outcome or scenario when it comes to making an important decision that could potentially impact our entire future. The girl relates to this as the persistent acknowledgement of her unborn child
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Do elephants cry? Of course they do‚ because they care about each other. A mother elephant will shield her calf from vicious predators and the hot sun‚ guiding it underneath herself. If there’s an obstacle in their path‚ a mother will carry her child over it‚ when a dust storm hits‚ she will personally bathe her precious baby. Just like humans‚ elephants create deep emotional bonds between their families and herds. Except‚ humans are a little better at expressing their feelings. We care for our loved
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from the police department‚ he changed his name to George Orwell. Orwell went on to write his essay ‘Shooting an Elephant’. His story is about when he was asked to handle a situation involving an elephant on a rampage. This was a tame elephant that destroyed part of the town and killed a man during the process. He struggled with his decision‚ but ultimately decided that killing the elephant was his only option or he would look like a fool. Like Orwell‚ I
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part of in the first place. The book ‚ When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe‚ follows innocent people through their horrific experiences that they had to go through during World War 2. The innocent characters have to live through anguish from being raped‚ having their children mistreated‚ and being dehumanized. Tess Uriza Holthe‚ in When The Elephants Dance‚ captures the dreadful reality that war harms the most innocent. When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe provides horrible stories
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government. His two most famous works (1984 and Animal Farm) both exemplify this point‚ but at the same time weaken it. These two works were written in protest of those governments‚ but in a fictional back ground. In Orwell’s essay Shooting an Elephant‚ he uses a personal experience to more clearly emphasize the impact of imperialism at the sociological and psychological level‚ in conjunction with other literary elements. This symposium of devices help drive the purpose of his paper and ultimately
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April Rene Young Kimberly Villegas English 1302‚ Section 2028 (8442) 2 March 2014 Hills Like White Elephants In Ernest Hemingway’s‚ “Hills Like White Elephants‚” a couple in a foreign country are debating the girl getting an abortion while drinking beer and waiting for a train at a train station. Throughout the short story written in Hemingway’s iceberg method‚ one can see how strongly each party feels about the procedure‚ and the difficulty the couple is facing throughout the bare essential
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From a feminist point of view‚ Ernest Hemingway’s "Hills Like White Elephants" uses a plethora of symbols to convey the idea that a young girl named Jig is a typical woman dealing with a woman’s choice. Although the word abortion is never used in the story‚ the reader is lead to that conclusion through the use of symbolism. The story begins with Jig and her American boyfriend waiting for a train in the valley of Ebro‚ a symbolic use of the word "Embryo". In addition‚ the valley of Ebro has a river
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"Hills like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway‚ opens with a long description of the story’s setting in a train station surrounded by hills‚ fields‚ and trees in a valley in Spain. A man known simply as the American and his girlfriend sit at a table outside the station‚ waiting for a train to Madrid. As they are waiting for their train to come‚ they are drinking beer arguing about some "operation" that the American man wants to get. Although they don’t specify exactly what the operation means the
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1.) In "Hills Like White Elephants‚" how might a feminist critic view the relationship of the American and the girl? Would you agree with the evaluation? -A feminist critic might view the relationship of the American and the girl as unfair. They are in Spain and the man was given the name "The American" to symbolize that he is American‚ "the girl" is given to the girl to symbolize that she is neither American nor from Spain. Throughout the conversations with the waitress "the girl" couldn’t communicate
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throughout their lives‚ and they often learn them through reading. Most books have many themes. A themes is like a lessons. You see in The boy who cried wolf not to lie which is the theme. You could learned two themes in the book Small as an elephant‚ by Jennifer R. Jacobson‚ realistic fiction. The book is about a young boy named Jack. Jack has to be very independent due to the fact that his mom is not stable‚ and his dad is no longer in his life. So when Jack and his mother plan to go on a
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