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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There are several themes and symbols that can be taken out of the short story by Ernest Hemingway‚ “Hills Like White Elephants.” The first symbol that is significant and deepens the story‚ is indeed the white elephants. In the beginning‚ the girl states that the hills look like white elephants (9). This comparison of the hills and white elephants can symbolize several things. White elephants are a symbol for something that is unwanted‚ or a burden. This baby‚ like a white elephant is supposed to
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A single executive in Beverly Hills tries to leave his life from Chicago behind‚ but he receives a life-altering surprise when his former girlfriend shows up with her six-year-old daughter announcing they are going to live with him. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: JASON grew up in Chicago with his friends NIA‚ bully TERRY‚ and KEMP. Now Jason lives in Beverly Hills and is a successful executive. He’s single and uncommitted to any woman. He has a fling with an office worker‚ JANICE‚ but she knows Jason has no
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can be indecisive at times‚ it can be so much harder. Although when we saw Hocking Hills in a brochure we knew that’s where we wanted to go. Originally‚ we wanted to go to North Carolina‚ but my parents couldn’t find any hotels. Hockings Hills had breathtaking cabins and there were lots available at low cost. So Hocking Hills is what we chose instead. Off we went‚ on a 2 hour and 30 min car ride to Hocking Hills. When we got there it was so beautiful I couldn’t stop running around like a chicken
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A symbol is an object‚ action‚ or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself. In “Hills like White Elephants” an important symbol is the elephant. One way it is used is the term “white elephant”. A white elephant is a gift that is unwanted by the owner and the maintenance required is higher than the usefulness. Also there is another expression that involvles elephants‚ “the elephant in the room”. These interpetations of the word plays a part of being a symbol
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In both the poem my papas waltz and the short story hills like white elephants‚ alcohol is a repetitive motif that is present throughout the stories. Both stories have alcohol as a similarity and in both stories the consumption of alcohol allows the characters to remove themselves from reality and ignore the issue(s) at hand. In the short story hills like white elephants both the American and the Jig consume alcohol when they are engaging in conversation in an effort to circumvent each other and
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In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephant”‚ Hemingway uses setting difficult to understand but adequate to stress on the tension‚ life and death doubt of the two characters‚ and their antagonistic conversation on whether the woman should have an abortion. The characters‚ a young girl called Jig and her American lover sits at a train station in Spain around a valley‚ have beer and try new drinks and dances around their situation on whether they should proceed to Barcelona to abort
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bench in Hill Park‚ in the small town of Lenore‚ Virginia. He had been killed by several stab wounds across his chest and neck. He was wearing a gray sweatshirt‚ jeans‚ and white tennis shoes. The backpack he was wearing contained only a few granola bars‚ some bottled water‚ and a notebook. Most of the notebook was written in an unidentified shorthand‚ probably only legible to its owner. The boy had no form of ID on him‚ and nobody came to claim the body. He became known as “the “Hill Park boy”
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Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21‚ 1899 in Oak Park‚ Illinois. He was the oldest son of a doctor and music teacher. While Hemingway grew up in Oak Park‚ he spent his summers in Michigan. Michigan gave Hemingway rich experiences and background to fill his writings with. The article “Ernest Hemingway” tells us‚ “In Michigan Hemingway found the material for his early fiction: events of sudden tragedy and pathos endured by the local Indians; the life-and-death consciousness of the hunter and fisherman;
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In Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find and Ernest Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants‚ certain characters from each story have an immense effect on the relationships by expressing their egotistical values to their families or significant others. In both short stories‚ the problem is that the characters have a lack of mutual understanding with one another. This is because there is constant bickering
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