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    can sometimes be hard to figure out. It takes looking at what the story is about to figure it out. After reading “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway‚ I started to really think about what the theme of the story was. The author was very indirect about the theme. I think the theme was about love and loss. The story Ernest Hemingway told was about a couple that was struggling with the decision to have an abortion. The male character is reassuring the female that everything is going

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    Is Happiness Real? An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place” As people grow older and the falsehoods of youth are revealed‚ they begin to realize what a cold‚ hard place the world truly is. Young people tend to not see the world as it is. The youth are inclined to see the good in things and ignore the bad. But as they age‚ the glaring truths of life become impossible to ignore. The harshest truth is that happiness is only temporary. Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Clean‚

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    novels were about the war that was going on which was known as “The Great War” or WW1. In the story “In Another Country” Hemingway was an injured soldier in Milan‚ he was one of the very first to try out a new machine that was supposed to help injuries. The doctor that was helping him with his leg injury was hopeful that the machines were going to work and Hemingway would be playing football just like he had been doing before the war. Then he meets another soldier who is getting his mangled

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    Ernest Hemingway was one of the most influential and well known writers of the 20th century. The classic American author was born on July 21‚ 1899 in Oak Park Illinois. Inspired by his father‚ he focused very much on hunting‚ fishing‚ bullfighting‚ and war. Much of his childhood took place outdoors‚ in the woods of northern Michigan where his family spent their summers. Hemingway’s father was a doctor and an outdoorsman‚ while his mother was active in the affairs of her church. He was a choirboy

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    The journey to address the couple’s white elephant is a long and tribulating path. “The Hills like White Elephants” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The narrator puts emphasis on the fact that the couple does not get along. This makes the audience feel uncomfortable which‚ in turn‚ shifts the focus from the problem at hand to their relationship struggles. In "Hills like White Elephants‚" the narrator portrays the couple as one that is constantly fighting. As a result‚ their bickering

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    American author Ernest Hemingway once said: “Never think that war‚ no matter how necessary‚ nor how justified‚ is not a crime”. Through his quote‚ Hemingway conveys that war (In the context of an armed conflict between two nations) is criminal. Hemingway’s anti-war perspective was heavily influenced by World War 1‚ where he was nearly killed while serving the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. World War‚ in addition to influencing Ernest Hemingway’s anti-war perspective‚ also exemplifies the criminality

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    Feminist CriticismFeminist criticism derives from a critique of a history of oppression‚ in this case the history of women’s inequality” (Mays 2347). Women have always been second to men in mostly everything they are competing in. Even if the man and woman have the exact same job‚ the man is probably making more money just because he is a man. Women barely got the chance to vote less than fifty years ago! Women still have a long way to go to catch up where the men are‚ because men have always

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    "Once they take it away‚ you never get it back" (Hemingway 593) Hills like white elephants published in 1927 by Ernest Hemingway. This Fiction story focuses on two American people‚ a man and a woman whose name is Jig. They decided to spend some time having a beer in a bar close to a train station in northeastern Spain while they were waiting for their train bound to an unknown place. The pregnant woman tells the man that the hills look like white elephants‚ which sparks a discussion between them

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    triumphs that are the aftermath”. The era after World War I represents the inheritance of misery and sorrow for the generation that strains to receive some form of happiness‚ known as the lost generation. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is the perfect example of this generation after the war. Hemingway utilizes the description and symbolism of the characters in order to present the purposeless destruction of the lost generation. Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises begins

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    The Elephant in the Room Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway is a very interesting story that can difficult for a reader to understand at first glance. The title plays a major role in this style of writing by Hemmingway. When a reader comes across this title‚ one most likely can notice that it is a simile as hills are being compared to white elephants. The young woman in the story‚ called Jig‚ is having drinks with an American man while waiting for a train at a station. The two discuss

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