Essay Title : 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
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The short story‚ “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway‚ is about a young couple and the issue about abortion. Hemingway’s use of effective literary devices; symbolism and setting is used to understand the story. In the short story‚ the word “abortion” is not actually used in the story‚ but using the literary devices it supports the understanding of the story. The setting is vital to the story. The story begins with a young couple referred to as “the American” and Jig waiting at the train
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The dictionary defines “white elephant” as “a property requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit.” (Merriam Webster) It is clear that anyone who has a white elephant in their lives wishes to be rid of it. “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is a story that describes the conflict that arises from a white elephant‚ in this case‚ an unborn child. The father of the child‚ the American‚ wishes for the mother of the child‚ Jig‚ to have an abortion. The ending does not specify
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Writers and Artists have something in common‚ they both paint the pictures and have a meaning in their work. People interpret their work differently and come up with similar results. In the story of Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants‚ it was a time where the man role is still dominant over woman. In the U.S. 19th Amendment made woman right to vote and started the beginnings of women joining the labor force. Three years before the Greatest Depression in history. Also it was time that abortions
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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 he’s
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Hills Like White Elephants In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway it can be assumed that the girl Jig gets an abortion and does not stay together with the American considering the amount of conflict they have shown in the text. Jig seems a lot younger than the American‚ since she is referred to as girl in the story. Also‚ she seems like she wants to have the abortion. Example from the text‚ “I’ll do it and everything will be fine (Ernest Hemingway)”. However‚ she is
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“Hills Like White Elephants” Analysis Ernest Hemingway’s‚ “Iceberg Theory”‚ states‚ “If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader‚ if the writer is writing truly enough‚ will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing
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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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In the story‚ “Hills like White Elephants” written by Ernest Hemingway. A couple is waiting at the train station‚ located near the dusty hills of Northern Spain. In the story the couple really didn’t see eye to eye‚ causing the setting to force them to face one another. The story‚ revealed how the couple sat in the train station while waiting on the train and drink beers. The couple started to partake in a conversation to discussing the issues at hand. The author’s way of showing the type of relationship
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Hills like White Elephants: A Story Analysis Ernest Hemingway was known for his novels and short stories. The bull rings of Spain‚ big game-hunting grounds of Africa‚ the glittering pleasure haunts of the post-war Europe‚ the humble fishing villages of Cuba and Mexico-these are the stuff of Hemingway. (World Literary Masterworks‚ Arsenia Allam) In this analysis‚ the writer aims to analyze and criticize one of Hemingway’s works‚ the characters and its theme. This analysis aims to answer the
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