Ernest Hemingway’s "Hills Like White Elephants‚" tells the story of an American man and a girl who is named Jig. They are both sitting outside of a train station in Spain looking across a valley while drinking beer. In “Hills Like White Elephants‚” Hemingway discusses the landscape before them‚ the valley of the Ebro River‚ that has long white hills. As the American and the girl begin to have a conversation‚ the girl remarks on the Ebro River of the way it looks. After a while the American asked
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over her. The story begins with the pair having drinks by a train station somewhere in northern Spain. Jig heavily relies on the man to translate and order for her‚ presumably because she cannot speak Spanish. She asks her companion many questions‚ including "What should we drink?" (Hemingway‚ 475) and "Is it good with water?" (476). This implies the knowledge disparities between the man and Jig‚ a common situation during the 1920s when the story was written‚ where it was believed that higher education
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much like the Cantabrian mountains of Spain resemble white elephants. “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927)‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ is about a young‚ unmarried couple‚ the American and Jig‚ who are sitting at a train station in Spain‚ apprehensively discussing an abortion for Jig. The story starts with Jig looking at the surrounding hills and talking about different types of alcohol. There is a following conversation between the two where they talk about their relationship post-abortion. There
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(called the American) and a girl’s life where they are at crossroads with one another. They dispute and make much effort to converse and challenge their standpoints about whether or not they should keep their unborn child. The man wants the girl (called Jig) to proceed with an abortion while the wife struggles to get him to look at her point of view. We will never be aware of how or if they manage to make ends meet due to the fact that the story concludes without a straightforward solution. A close reading
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what you are reading and things will make sense. In the story‚ “Hills Like White Elephants‚” Hemingway uses intricate detail in how the story is told. The theme of the story‚ “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway (1927) is that the girl‚ Jig says that she is fine when in reality she is struggling with a decision of whether or not to get the abortion. She wants the American man to love her no matter what decision she make‚ but she wants the baby and it is obvious in her sarcasm throughout
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Love and Responsibility in Hills Like White Elephants “Hills Like White Elephants” written by Ernest Hemingway that is the controversy revolving around the theme of abortion between the American man and the girl named Jig waiting for a train at the station. Through their conversation and their difficult decision that whether or not having an abortion‚ the story shows love and responsibility in a relationship between the couple. While waiting for a press‚ they drinking
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Although‚ the modern version of “Hills like White Elephants” may be a better video for today’s viewers the traditional version is more superior to Hemingway’s subtext because both the man and girl have different viewpoints‚ jig wants to make the choice for herself ‚ and throughout the whole video there are hints of the man leaving the girl behind. When the couple is sitting at the table in the station‚ the man brings up many promises about this operation during the conversation which the girl clearly
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complications‚ climax‚ suspense‚ and a conclusion. The initial situation begins with the view of the hills‚ in an exotic Spanish setting (somewhere in Spain at a train station)‚ where a man and woman are having drinks at a bar. The conflict arises‚ after Jig states that the hills are like white elephants (591). This simile sparks the conflict (the third element) between the two over who has traveled more. This argument brings on the complication. The metaphor (the hills like pregnancy) and the two argue
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decision. Arguably the most striking similarity comes The couple in “Hills Life White Elephants” is a prime example of a shallow relationship that is seemingly empty and meaningless. It is a relationship between an American man and a woman called Jig that is devoid of responsibility. This relationship is very similar to the past marriage of Charlie Wales‚ the protagonist in “Babylon Revisited.” Charlie used to be married to a woman named Helen during the stock market boom of the 1920s before she
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most women of the time period (1920 ’s -1930 ’s) Jig wants to to please her man. She is willing to do this at any cost. Jig would even have an abortion if that ’s what it will take to please him. “And if I do it you ’ll be happy and things will be like they were and you ’ll love me?” (Hemingway ‚2012‚ p.55) Abortions were not a simple operation during that time period as the man would have her believe. “It ’s really an awfully simple operation‚ Jig” the man said‚ “Its not really an operation at all”
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