Modernist literature was a predominantly English genre of fiction writing‚ popular from roughly the 1910s into the 1960s. Modernist literature came into its own due to increasing industrialization and globalization.(Notes) Modernism is notoriously difficult to define clearly because the term encompasses a variety of specific artistic and philosophical movements including symbolism.(UNLV) Ernest Hemingway has a modernist style of storytelling. “Hills Like White Elephants” by Hemingway has many elements
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Character Analysis of “Hills like White Elephants” This short story was written by Earnest Hemingway. It involves an American man and his girlfriend. The story takes place at a train station somewhere in Spain. It is hot and it appears that they have been traveling awhile and are approaching the end of their travels. The story entails a conversation that the couple is having regarding the future of their apparent pregnancy and their relationship. The characterizations of the couple are made
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Ernest Hemingway: Hills Like White Elephants A white elephant is an idiom for a valuable but burdensome possession‚ but also it means a rare and sacred creature. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story Hills Like White Elephants‚ Hemingway uses an unborn child as a white elephant. This short story depicts a couple of an American man and young women at a train station somewhere in Spain. Hemingway tells the story from watching the couple from across the bar and listening to their troublesome conversation
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In many works of literature‚ characters who love one another or share a friendship often face obstacles to their relationships. Sometimes the characters overcome the obstacle; sometimes the characters are defeated by the obstacle. In the short story “Hills like white elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway the two main characters; the girl and the American‚ aren’t quite in love but are in some sort of relationship dealing with a big obstacle of whether or not the girl should have the operation. Throughout
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essentially the infrastructure in Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants”. The reticent‚ yet passionate conversation between the protagonists sets the stage for numerous interpretations. Nevertheless‚ by writing such an ambiguous piece‚ Hemingway demonstrates the exceedingly powerful impact literary devices can have on a piece of literature. The first literary device introduced‚ and one of the most important‚ is the setting. In the second sentence‚
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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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“Hills Like White Elephants” The text “ Hills like white elephants” under analysis comes from the book‚ the collection of short stories “Men Without Women “(1927) written by American author Ernest Hemingway. “Men Without Women” was Hemingway’s second book of short stories. It was published in October 1927 with a first print-run of approximately 7600 copies. The author is famous for his distinctive writing style‚ characterized by economy and understatement‚ influenced 20th-century fiction. Ernest
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Hills Like White Elephants “No American writer of his generation has been more talked about than Ernest Hemingway (Adams).” Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 and is viewed as one of the most famous writers of his generation. Upon graduating high school in 1917‚ he worked as a newspaper reporter (Pike and Costa‚ 444). He then went to Italy and became a volunteer ambulance driver (Pike and Costa‚ 444). Hemingway finally settled in Paris in 1922‚ where he wrote the stories
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reads a short story they need to pay attention because even the smallest of details are important. This proves to be true due to analysis of the surroundings of the characters and how they react to them. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story "Hills Like White Elephants‚" the main conflict is a man who is trying to convince his female companion to have an abortion but the girl is resistant to the whole idea. Between the description of the couple’s surroundings‚ their dialogue‚ and how they react to the
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symbolism in “Hills like White Elephants” In the short story “Hills like White Elephants” Hemingway chooses to use symbolism the most out of any other literary element. Hemingway did not make the use of symbolism obvious‚ without understanding the symbolism one would assume the couple is actually discussing the scenery. In the short story “Hills like White Elephants” the element of symbolism is used to mask the serious discussion that the man and woman are having at the train station. The hills in the
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