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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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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on them. They only have forty minutes until their train arrives and they have nothing to turn their attention to. There is a bar‚ separated by a curtain of bamboo beads. The couple orders drinks from here throughout the story. The landscape in the setting is barren. We see this in the line “the country was brown and dry.” However‚ when the girl is fantasizing about their future life she sees the landscape as more than barren. It is described as‚ “Across‚ on the other side‚ were fields of grain and
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Drew Carter Hensley English 11 Honors 2nd Period Hills Like White Elephants Summary The story begins in a valley in northern Spain near the Ebro river at a train station surrounded by hills‚ fields‚ and trees. An American man and his girlfriend‚ who he calls ?Jig?‚ are waiting for a train coming from Barcelona in forty minutes that would stop at the station and go to Madrid. While waiting in the shade at a table outside the building‚ the two discuss what they will have to drink. The man points out
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Hills Like White Elephants The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” was written by Ernest Hemingway. The author seems to be a minimalist where he does not provide explanation about the very issue why the couple is unhappy and annoyed with each other. To have a more deeper understanding on the literature‚ I have looked up a translated version of it and according to a Japanese translation of the very story‚ it said that the problem was about her pregnancy and that the man wants her to have an
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I found reading “Hills Like White Elephants” to be very challenging. I thought it was confusing and hard to understand. I personally did not like the reading. After reading the short story the first time I was lost and I did not understand what was happening in it. The second time I read it I understood it a little bit better. The white elephants are something of little to no value. I think that the train is a one-way operation and there is no stopping. I that the man wants to go‚ but the girl does
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Commitment can be applied to many things like‚ someone’s career or relationships. Commitment is the base of someone’s relationship‚ without that first step which is committing‚ the relationship will not be stable and it will not exist in the future. It is one of the main keys and one of the very first steps for a steady relationship. This concept is well is illustrated in the story “Hills like white elephant”. The characters in “Hills like white elephant”‚ Jig and the American man‚ had problems in
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The main theme in “Hills Like White Elephants” is the subject of decision making‚ one that can change your life forever. In this piece‚ there is a conversation between a pregnant woman named Jig‚ and her partner‚ the American. They arrive at a bar near a train junction and order some beers‚ as they wait‚ Jig looks out over the hills and sees the clouds‚ she compares them to white elephants. This topic of conversation seems to arise because there seems to be a tension between the couple‚ which
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“The Hills Like White Elephants” As I started to read through the poem I felt like I easily understood the setting. It was very easy for me to picture this man and woman having a conversation and sharing drinks. I did not easily understand what the subject of their conversation was the first time I read through the poem but I did recognize it was affecting the young girl named Jig. I first realized something was going on when the man kept repeating that everything will be okay and he kept repeating
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