The girl who goes by the name of Jig‚ in the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway‚ is a very indecisive character‚ which delineates the constant battle between choosing to listen to your heart or mind. Main points: 1. Jig is willing to go through with the operation at the beginning of the story. Evidence: She has obviously discussed the “operation” with the man she is with before‚ and seems to believe it will fix things between them. An excerpt from the story reads:
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Abortion‚ weather it is right or wrong‚ it is still an enormous issue that numerous people‚ including politicians‚ worldwide deem upon differently. Recently‚ in Texas‚ the Supreme Court justified abortion rights by eliminating abortion laws. Contrasting today’s society‚ abortion was intolerable and entirely prohibited not too long ago. In “Hills Like White Elephants‚” Hemingway conveys a couple and a train station to symbolize the crossroads within their relationship due to an “operation” (abortion)
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critical and helps the reader to understand more about what’s going on in their relationship and the reason they are there at the train station. The first moment in the story is when the American man says‚ “It’s really an awfully simple operation‚ Jig‚” “It’s not really an operation at all” (pg. 97‚ paragraph 40). Now you realize that she’s really nervous about the surgery. We don’t really know what kind of surgery yet until they start talking about how other people have gone through it and came
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all of the characters. Each story describes what freedom means to distinctive people. “Hills Like White Elephants” tells a story of a young couple facing a huge decision having to be made. This surgery that the American man wants Jig to get done seems to be an abortion.
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its focus on a couple. The man‚ called the American‚ and the woman‚ named Jig‚ are having a conversation over drinks that increasingly grows more serious as time passes. Eventually it is revealed that the American wants Jig to get a simple operation‚ otherwise known as an abortion. The two argue back and forth until the climax is reached and Jig screams‚ refusing to talk anymore. As the story ends it is unclear whether Jig will get the abortion but the two are distanced physically and
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The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” is about a couple that is located in Spain.They are having beer in front of a train station to take the train to Barcelona to Madrid.Throughout the story they argue about whether having the baby or having an abortion which is referenced as a surgery.The boyfriend doesn’t want her to have the baby he tells her that the surgery will be perfectly simple.He tries to persuade her that he knows a lot of people that have done the procedure.He thinks it’s the
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calling the unborn child a baby or saying the Jig is getting an abortion‚ Hawthorne uses “it” to explicate the unimportance of the baby and how effortless the operation can be. The man does not what to make the decision of whether or not Jig has the abortion by indirectly telling her he doesn’t want the baby he says “I wouldn’t have you do it if you didn’t want to. But I know it’s perfectly simple” (337). The man says the operation is “simple” so Jig would think the abortion would be effortless
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Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” portrays the turmoil a couple endures when faced with an unplanned pregnancy‚ the choice to hold onto their current life or to begin a new life. Readers are allowed to intrude on a conversation between an American man and a girl‚ further conflict is presented through Hemingway’s use of symbolism. The man wants to go through with an abortion while the girl is unsure about which track she should take. Throughout the story‚ Hemmingway’s use of abundant
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