To Keep or Not to Keep The short story‚ “ Hills Like White Elephants ” by Ernest Hemingway‚ is about a man who is unnamed and a women whose nickname is Jig‚ as the reader we understand them to be boyfriend and girlfriend. They are both sitting at a train station waiting on the train. After some time (and a few beers)‚ the women brings up that the hills in front of them look like white elephants. The man does not think the hills look like white elephants and this statement brings them both into an
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Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway’s story‚ “Hills Like White Elephants‚” has plenty of symbolism throughout the story. Symbolisms are physical things that are important and stands for something else. In this story‚ the symbols are the hills‚ white elephants‚ railroad tracks‚ and the felt pads. Hemingway uses these symbols to produce the theme of the story. The theme is about how change will bring happiness for Jig by having the baby while the man doesn’t see what the future holds
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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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“Hills like White Elephants” By Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway born in 1899‚ in Cicero‚ Illinois‚ served in World War 1‚ worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time. Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for writing four novels‚ The Sun Also Rises‚ A Farewell to Arms‚ For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ and The Old Man and the Sea‚ in 1954 he became a Nobel Prize winner. Hemingway was raised in the suburb of Chicago but he and his folks spent most of their time in Michigan. He
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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 be a gift‚ that the man see’s as useless‚ something
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Hills Like White Elephants: Reaction Paper Throughout this school year‚ we analyzed and discussed several awesome poems‚ novels and stories. One that I particularly liked would have to be "Hill Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. The first thing about it that caught my attention would have to be its title‚ "Hills like White Elephants’. To be honest‚ I really thought that it’ll be about some elephants in Africa or something but I was wrong. There were no elephants! The story is
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Ernest Hemingway’s‚ "Hills Like White Elephants‚" is discussed by many people because of the way that Hemingway used dialogue that contained a lack of descriptions‚ unidentified characters‚ and barely any narration to convey the short story’s meaning. In this case‚ the reader is required to read between the lines. In this short story‚ one can see that all of the symbols disclose the unsteady relationship between the American and Jig and the conflict in relation to their lifestyle and operation.
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In the short story hills like white elephants by ernest hemingway there is a strong use of symbolism. Some of the symbols are more obvious and some are more hidden beneath subtext. Alike to most novels the understanding is based entirely upon one’s personality and enjoyment. Most of the symbolism has to do with the female in the story hinting towards a pregnancy that she cannot decide whether she would like to keep or abort. She hints towards choosing two people out of her‚ the baby and her husband
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Abortion in Hills like White Elephants Abortion has been an ongoing national debate that continues on daily not only in North America but other countries as well. Medically an abortion means to permanently end a pregnancy. In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” a couple are at a train station waiting for the next train to take a trip to get an abortion or “simple operation” ( Hemingway 201) as the man refers to it as in the story. The man is attempting to convince the young lady to get
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title of Hills Like White Elephants is a seemingly odd title however‚ when you look farther into it‚ it has a deep meaning. In the story‚ white elephants are first mentioned in a conversation between the girl and the American. The girl says‚ “’ They look like white elephants’” (in text). The girl is referring to the hills in the distance. The American replies‚ “’I’ve never seen one’” (). It seems simple enough however‚ if you look at the definition found in the Oxford English Dictionary‚ a white elephant
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