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    create a vast number of novels‚ essays‚ and short stories that we all know today. Some of the best well-known stories are Hills like White Elephants by Hemmingway‚ Why we Crave Horror Movies by King‚ The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman‚ and Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce. All of these stories have a few things in common‚ and that is the six literally elements mentioned before. Like the other pieces

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    Carolina Lopez English 1301 Professor McLemore May 2012 LITERARY ANALYSIS ABOUT “HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS” The prose dialogue narrative in Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway is an impressive feat. This story reveals the emptiness of the modern world. The girl and the American have been traveling in Europe and they stop at the train station waiting for the next train. While they are drinking liqueur sitting at the bar‚ they are talking about an "operation" in which the woman

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    Which White Elephant Exactly? Ernest Hemingway’s short story ‘Hills like White Elephants’ depicts a couple‚ “the man” and “the girl”‚ casual conversation over drinks while awaiting the arrival of a train to Madrid. The story ends‚ as vaguely as it started‚ with the two about to embark on the train. Heminways’s use of ambiguous and vague language‚ dialogue‚ characterization‚ and metaphors in ‘Hills like White Elephants’ could leave his readers bewildered to the underlying subject matter of its

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    In the story Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway‚ a man known as the American and his girlfriend are waiting for a train to Madrid. They are forced to make a very hard decision before the train arrives‚ on whether or not the girl should abort her pregnancy. The overall theme of hard choices are symbolized in different forms such as the setting. Hemingway uses the setting of the train station and the landscape that surrounds it‚ to help emphasize this overall theme of difficult decision

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    Both Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” and Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” relate to the theme of hopelessness during the lost generation. Remarque’s story is set during the war from a younger German soldier‚ Paul‚ through him the suffering and difficulties are presented as fruitless and with out a main goal to look forward to when they return home. Throughout the military travels of the younger soldiers like Paul‚ Remarque’s view on wars disadvantages on people are clearly stated through

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    an assumption that they ought to be couples. The title has a significant meaning; it says Hills dealing with the green pasture‚ and happiness. While the white elephant signify something that is hard to get rid of even though it seems priceless‚ it could mean an object that becomes a problem to the person who received the gift. The title entails that it is hard to make decisions in life one the white elephant is present in the person’s life. This illustration leads to the main story of the two couples

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    yours‚ which in the end you could be fully persuaded onto the other side of the argument. Also‚ by doing simple research on a topic could influence you to change your thoughts because you are becoming more educated on a topic that interested you. Finding out new perspectives and different ideas on a concept could force you to form a new unique opinion. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills like White Elephants” and Kincaid’s

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    Name: ____Elena Tran__________________ Vocabulary Unit 21 In-Class Study Sheet Base Word/ Syn / Ant | Definition | Example using TSAR | 1. kudos | praise/honor received for an achievement | Pedro Romero received kudos from the audience. | S - accolade | an award/privilege granted as a special honor or as an acknowledgment of merit | Jake and his friends are war veterans that have received accolades for their services. | A - odium | general hatred/disgust directed toward someone as

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    In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants‚” Hemingway surprisingly engages the reader with ambiguous dialogue and character detail necessitating use of extensive symbolism within the setting to encourage the readers active participation. The glaring lack of key details concerning the characters‚ an American man and a girl named Jig‚ and their disjointed conversation provide little real substance to comprehend the conflict at hand. In trying to determine what operation is being

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    The Sun Also Rises: The Theme of Romanticism vs. Realism From 1914-1918‚ World War One took place. The war was a traumatizing‚ bloody occurrence for anyone who was involved. These expatriates were‚ generally‚ given the nickname‚ “The Lost Generation”. This label described the people’s loss of honor and value. Ernest Hemingway‚ who coined the phrase‚ dives into the days of the lives of the war veterans and nurses after the war by writing the novel‚ The Sun Also Rises. In this story‚ Ernest follows

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