“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is about a couple perceived to be not married sitting at a train station waiting to go to Madrid. They have a few beers and talk about and the issue of why they are traveling. The author never comes out and tells you directly‚ but uses symbols and wording that leads you to a conclusion of what’s going on in this couples life. They must choose between going through with an abortion‚ or not. Ernest makes sure that everything the couple does and says
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story‚ "Hills Like White Elephants‚" involves a couple faced with a serious dilemma. The female character‚ Jig‚ is pregnant. Her lover encourages her to get an abortion‚ but she has second thoughts. By the end of the story‚ it is evident that Jig does not go through with the procedure and decides to keep the baby. In the story‚ Jig and her lover‚ known as the American‚ are at a train station having some drinks. The railroad runs through a valley with hills. On one side of the tracks‚ the hills are barren
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Hills Like White Elephants Commentary Hills Like White Elephants tells the story of a woman‚ Jig‚ and a man known only as the American‚ sitting in a train station. Though the story is brief‚ it has much to say. When reading the story for the first time its full effect doesn’t set in. By taking a closer look and rereading the story‚ a bigger situation is revealed other than what seems to be a dull conversation. Jig is pregnant and the American man is pressuring her into having an abortion. The
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Logan Gough Bagdanov AP Lit Period 1 16 February 2017 Short Story Prompt 2 In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and David [Foster] Wallace’s “Good People”‚ both authors make the character’s speak and act ambiguously and use symbols and motifs in the story to influence the character’s decision about having an abortion or not. For example‚ the American in “Hills Like White Elephants” repeatedly says to the girl “if you don’t want to you don’t have to” implying that he doesn’t want
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In the Ernest Hemingway short story‚ Hills Like White Elephants‚ Hemingway uses a narrative voice as an eavesdropper and uses indirect characterization like dialogue to portray a serious conversation on abortion. Instead of providing a backstory‚ including motives and emotion of the characters‚ Hemingway puts the reader in the role of eavesdropper to the couple’s conversation. The setting is in the 1920’s at a train station. The man‚ the American‚ and the young girl‚ Jig‚ have a discussion about
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In Israel Potter‚ Herman Melville explains in the excerpt “To his highness the Bunker Hill Movement” (Melville 1) that he cannot copy the life of the real Israel Potter‚ but in an interpretation that he calls his own‚ and in which he writes about history‚ in a fictional twist. Melville begins the story by telling where Israel Potter lives and explain his first place of travel‚ from Otis to somewhere near Windsor. Later‚ when traveling‚ he meets a girl‚ who he thought was pretty‚ but then he found
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Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway‚ a simple narrative‚ written in third person omniscient follows a conversation between an American and his girlfriend named Jig. The setting is presented early on in the short story‚ and it’s done so vividly. Imagery plays an integral role in the short story as it is the device that reveals a lot about the theme and the symbolism. Little is known about the characters of the story‚ except for the fact that the man is an American who speaks Spanish and
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THE HOLLOW OF THE THREE HILLS The Hollow of the Three Hills is a story of dishonor‚ deceit‚ and death. The author‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays the main character as a beautiful woman with a shameful and abominable past. She tries to run from her problems but comes to find out no matter how big or small a problem‚ trying to run from it will only make the problem follow. The main character was so driven by curiosity and remorse that she brought herself to go see a witch. They met in a place
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The Hollow of the three hills Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story begins on a paradox. He writes ‘’in those strange old times…’’ yet the time period hasn’t been specified at all. This can be seen as a deliberate attempt at vagueness. Hawthorne is trying to distort the reader’s sense of time as most successful gothic stories take place in haunted settings outside specific time periods. The rest of the paragraph has been devoted to the description of the setting. The Hollow is a place of dark magic
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As the Dead Prey Upon Us Analysis Charles Olson was an innovative essayist and poet in the 1950s-1960s. He created the idea of “Projective verse” and wrote and essay on it‚ asserting that a poem is a transfer of energy from the writer to reader. Projective verse allows the energy of the poem to be properly discharged. He also explained that form is an extension of the content of the poem‚ which is why are all breathed conditioned by his ear. He thought the best verses were supposed to sync your
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