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    Ernest Hemingway’s story "Hills Like White Elephants" revolves around a conversation with a man and a girl at a train station while they are waiting for their next train. The man and girl fall in love and they travel unchaperoned. The girl compares the nearby hills to white elephants. The pair indirectly discusses an operation that is inferred to be an abortion. It’s illegal‚ so girl will find someone from the street to do‚ thereby endangering her life and future fertility. The story describes a

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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: A TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS (erckspdr.) INTRODUCTION Human beings can communicate with each other. We are able to exchange knowledge‚ beliefs‚ opinions‚ wishes‚ threats‚ commands‚ thanks‚ promises‚ declarations‚ and feelings – only our imagination sets limits. We can laugh to express amusement‚ happiness‚ or disrespect‚ we can smile to express amusement‚ pleasure‚ approval‚ or bitter feelings‚ we can shriek to express anger‚ excitement‚ or fear‚ we can

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    The short story‚ “Hills Like White Elephants”‚ by Ernest Hemingway is not the easiest text to interpret. The short story involves a man and woman who are casually waiting for a train. They both decide to drink some beer as they are waiting and exchange a normal conversation until the man suggests the woman should get a simple operation. The type of operation is not clearly stated‚ but from the woman’s reaction it is clear she does not plan on having the operation. The man then keeps bringing up the

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    Denzel Morales Dr. Tomko WRT-201-035 February 6‚ 2009 Irony in “Hills Like White Elephants” and “A&P” Several authors use irony to strengthen their story or to make a point out to its reader like in the short stories “A&P” which was written by John Updike and “Hills Like White Elephants” written by Ernest Hemingway. In these two short stories the author use ironic situations which made the reader have a better understanding of the story. The irony in these stories can be found in many parts

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    John Winthrop ’s "City Upon A Hill"‚ described the mission and vision to start a "New England"‚ which became known as the United States of America. John Winthrop believed a perfect society could exist in a perfect city where everyone worshiped and worked together in harmony. He envisioned a community so closely woven together that everyone was equally important to the future of the city. A city where a purer form of Christianity would exist‚ which would provide a moral and religious show for the

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    Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is a short story about a man known as the American and a girl named Jig who are a couple. Both are at a train station in Barcelona surrounded by hills waiting for the train to take them to Madrid. The weather was warm and the couple sat outside the station at a bar to order beer. All of a sudden Jig looks at the landscape and says that the hills look like white elephants to which the American man answers that he has never seen one. After the first

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    In This story Hills Like White Elephants‚ Ernest Hemingway enlightens the fragility of and emotional emptiness of the relationship between the couple and their relationship that is threatened by the interjection of an unborn child.“Hills Like White Elephants” we see that the writer has portrayed many different symbols and literary devices. Right from the start we have a simile in the title of the short story where the word “like” is used in the title. The comparison of a different words used in the

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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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    Three’s a Crowd: A Summary of an Analysis on “Hills Like White Elephants” The article “Moving to the girl’s side of “Hills Like White Elephants.” by Stanley Renner‚ appears in The Hemingway Review. Renner leads a solid argument that the girl may have not aborted the child. The following is a summary of his analysis. At first‚ the girl is sitting with “the American” on the side of the station that is out in the sun where the land is described as having “no shade and no trees” and is “brown

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