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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In Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants‚” Jig undergoes a transformation enabling her to realize and declare her own feelings. At the story’s beginning Jig is passive‚ unaware of her own feelings‚ and in the habit of looking to the American direction. She soon comes to realize her own desires and struggles to assert herself for the first time. The story is structured around the two sides of the valley‚ the division symbolizing the opposition between the American’s values and Jig’s. “The two
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Hills Like White Elephants “No American writer of his generation has been more talked about than Ernest Hemingway (Adams).” Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 and is viewed as one of the most famous writers of his generation. Upon graduating high school in 1917‚ he worked as a newspaper reporter (Pike and Costa‚ 444). He then went to Italy and became a volunteer ambulance driver (Pike and Costa‚ 444). Hemingway finally settled in Paris in 1922‚ where he wrote the stories
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The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” present the readers with a variety of themes. With an array of themes to interrupt the most common theme of the short story written by Ernest Hemingway‚ is choices and consequences. Choices and consequences is the main theme that most readers seem to miss due to the lack of the understanding of the writing style of Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway writing style is unusual from many writers because unlike most writes the meaning of the story is not given away
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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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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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Literature Instructor Emily Brandon May 20‚ 2013 Theme and Narrative Elements in the Short Story The theme of a story can sometimes be hard to figure out. It takes looking at what the story is about to figure it out. After reading “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway‚ I started to really think about what the theme of the story was. The author was very indirect about the theme. I think the theme was about love and loss. The story Ernest Hemingway told was about a couple that
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In an analysis of the story “Hills like white elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway‚ one is forced to take a deep look at the hidden meanings embedded in the story. Considering the point of view‚ the significance of the location and its relevance to the story‚ the structure of the text‚ the symbolic meaning of the two landscapes and the title of the story‚ the entrails of the story are exposed. Hemmingway’s story is written in an objective or dramatic point of view. The story is told primarily through
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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 by Ernest Hemingway‚ a simple narrative‚ written in third person omniscient follows a conversation between an American and his girlfriend named Jig. The setting is presented early on in the short story‚ and it’s done so vividly. Imagery plays an integral role in the short story as it is the device that reveals a lot about the theme and the symbolism. Little is known about the characters of the story‚ except for the fact that the man is an American who speaks Spanish and
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