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    Gough Bagdanov AP Lit Period 1 16 February 2017 Short Story Prompt 2 In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and David [Foster] Wallace’s “Good People”‚ both authors make the character’s speak and act ambiguously and use symbols and motifs in the story to influence the character’s decision about having an abortion or not. For example‚ the American in “Hills Like White Elephants” repeatedly says to the girl “if you don’t want to you don’t have to” implying that he doesn’t want her to and

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    Many people may believe that the short story “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is a very remarkable story to recall. This story teaches the readers a life lesson that most couples have to deal with. Unfortunately‚ some couples do not know how to deal with their differences so they just ignore their issues which only makes things worse. I would most likely remember “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway five years from now because Hemingway uses symbolism and conflict to address

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    identify the inflation‚ the reasons behind inflation and the current situation of inflation in Bangladesh. Method To serve the purpose‚ it is followed standard research methodology to extract the findings and applied sophisticated data analysis techniques to get consistent and sound output. For the term paper secondary data have been collected. Secondary data have been collected from the internet‚ the article and the reports published in the daily newspapers related to this topic.

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    Character Analysis of “Hills like White Elephants” This short story was written by Earnest Hemingway. It involves an American man and his girlfriend. The story takes place at a train station somewhere in Spain. It is hot and it appears that they have been traveling awhile and are approaching the end of their travels. The story entails a conversation that the couple is having regarding the future of their apparent pregnancy and their relationship. The characterizations of the couple are made

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    Nic Woodley Professor Jeremy Bearden English 102 June 10‚ 2013 Avoiding the Elephant In “Hills Like White Elephants‚” Earnest Hemingway incorporates the style of writing he pioneered to help convey the central theme of the story. His unique approach to writing leaves the conclusion up for interpretation by the reader. Hemingway gives very little description of the American and Jig. Instead‚ the reader must infer through the characters’ actions and dialogue to gauge their feelings toward

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    short story titled simply ’Elephant’‚ Raymond Carver focuses on the elephant both literally and figuratively. Literally‚ when the author used the word elephant as the title for his short story‚ he made me think of the narrator in the story as hardworking because elephants are hardworking creatures. The narrator works hard to earn a living and takes his responsibilities seriously. Also‚ the author could have used the word elephant to bring attention to the phrase elephant in the room which means an

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    mind; trap range and the traditional shooting range. While both ranges are used for the same type of hobbies they are completely different in the way things are done. A traditional range is used mostly to get a feel of a gun or practice your accuracy. A trap range is for those who want a

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    Nicole Pastore Feindert English 303‚ 10:45AM-12:50 PM 14 February 2016 “Hills Like White Elephants” and Setting In “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway‚ the setting enhances and symbolizes the difficult choices both the American and Jig must face as well as analyzes the problem of projecting problems on to the environment in everyday life. Heavy in dialogue and lacking in detailed descriptions of the environment‚ Hemingway’s sparse choices in description become very essential to the

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    Hemingway’s short story‚ “Hills Like White Elephants‚” has realistic‚ modernist‚ and postmodern elements. A conversation on a train system between two individuals‚ primarily about something while drinking beer while discussing the scenery around them is realistic. A great example of the type of dialogue and description is‚ “‘What should we drink?’ the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table‚” (Hemingway 1). This type of writing is not overly descriptive of everything. Such as

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    Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway wrote the work “Hills Like White Elephants”. His story is about abortion although within the text‚ the word abortion is nowhere to be found. The reason why Ernest Hemingway portrayed abortion the way he did was because in 1927‚ abortion was something that nobody really talked about. It was a something that would be looked down upon. So he writes “Hills Like White Elephants” with multiple metaphors to mask the idea of abortion. Not one time does the

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