The story “Hills like White Elephants” is written by Ernest Hemingway. It is about Jig’s (the main character) struggle with abortion. Jig had recently found out that she was pregnant. She begins to wonder what strain this will put on her relationship. She looks to her boyfriend for the answer. He never gives clear consent for her to go through the procedure. Jig did not have the abortion. The theme is of the story is abortion. The two characters in the short story have to make the decision whether
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In the short story‚ “Hills like White Elephants” by Earnest Hemingway‚ we read about two travelers making their way from Barcelona to Madrid. One of the travelers is an American man‚ alongside his girlfriend‚ Jig‚ whose nationality is not specified. The story proceeds forward‚ and we pick up very quickly that there is some kind of unspoken tension between the two characters that neither of them care to discuss. During the back and forth dialogue‚ we can safely assume that the two are expecting
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In Ernest Hemingway story‚ Hills Like White Elephants the American act according to the rigid of what is the definition of masculinity. At the beginning‚ he illustrates a man full of knowledge and enough experiences to always have everything under control. Also he acts as a careless unmanly man when he addresses her to have an “simple operation” as if it were nothing to her or even to the baby his/herself. (Hemingway 71). While him being so convincing that the girl is going to have the “operation”
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Pleads for an Operation‚ not an Obligation Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” sprays bullets of emotion through the reader’s head and heart. It is hard to ignore the insincerity of the American’s persistent pleads for the mother of his child‚ Jig‚ to schedule an abortion. It is quite a challenge to not root against the man‚ as he can be seen by many as the clear antagonist. For such dark schematics‚ the bearer of the child provides a positive energy for the audience with her apparent
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Misleading Image of the Girl in “Hills Like White Elephants” In Ernest Hemingway’s short story‚ “Hills Like White Elephants‚” the male character serves as an obvious antagonist‚ shown by his unsympathetic behavior towards his lover who contemplates having an abortion. The girl is faced with two choices – to protect their relationship by having an abortion‚ or keep her baby‚ but have the man leave her. Though the operation is physically done to her body‚ the girl does not have much power in the
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The poem that I have chosen to talk about is called the hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway. The setting takes place in the early 1920s where an American man and a girl are waiting at railway station so that they can take an express train and travel to Madrid. The author expresses in the poem how it is summer hot day in Madrid that correlates with “were white in the sun.” The author does not give the readers enough information about the “operation” nor the relationship between the American
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Abstract This article is about Ernest Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants. It is regarding its feministic aspect mostly about the power and assertion of Jig the female character. Since Hemingway’s texts often are ambiguous and open for interpretation i have found many different sources and likewise opinions of the text. However many of the latter texts that i found point to the assertion of Jig and that she is enigmatic. This is what interested me because in the texts of Hemingway that i have
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In the short story‚ “Hills like White Elephants” by Earnest Hemingway‚ it tells the tale of a couple traveling from Barcelona to Madrid. The man is an American and his girlfriend‚ Jig‚ has an unspecified nationality. The story proceeds forward‚ and we pick up very quickly that there is some kind of unspoken tension between the two characters that neither of them care to discuss. During the back and forth dialogue‚ it is safe to assume that the two are expecting a child. We can read between the
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ig‚ the protagonist and one of the main characters of “hills like white elephants” is who I have chosen to analyses and illustrate. In the start of the story jig is initially referred to as “the girl” with this statement we know she must be younger. Especially since the waitress is referred to as “a woman”. Her travel companion “the man” or latter in the story” the American” as she so lovingly calls him thru out the poem. Her character reflects the use of the word girl instead of woman. This is the
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political‚ social and economic institutions. Women and men should be treated equally in every way in the society. In the book Sula by Toni Morrison‚ the play Fences by August Wilson‚ Girl by Jamaica Kincaid‚ Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin‚ Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway all show feminism is strong and demonstrate it in their main characters. In the book Sula‚ by Toni Morrison‚ feminism is portrayed
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