Laza Smith Prof Johnson Eng 200 April 22 2012 Formal Essay #2. The poems “metaphors” by Sylvia Plath and “the mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks both have the same theme of pregnancy. Alongside “hills like white elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, they talk about the trials and tribulation that comes with having being pregnant. Sylvia Plath begins the poem with a riddle which gives us a clue to the structure of the poem and its theme, she says, “I’m a riddle in nine syllables” (Plath line 1).
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We read stories like this one that hides clues that we can not understand through its ambiguity. The narrator is the author, Ernest Hemingway. The setting takes place at a train station in Spain. The setting provided a specific time and place and background information. The male character in the story is admirable because he’s avoiding the discussion between him and the female. The man wants the woman to get an abortion. I know because white elephant means something nobody wants. When the man said
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Hemingway’s short story Hills Like White Elephants I think that the focalization is omniscient even though it is easily interpreted as external focalization and here is why. The point of view switches easily from a bird view and very detailed description of the landscape surrounding the train station, then narrows down to the main characters The American and The Girl/Jig's dialogue and also finally (though very briefly) into both character's thoughts and minds at the end of the story. The narration
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scene the entire story through subtext from which the reader then deduces the drama (Wood 1). His use of the Iceberg Theory was presented clearly in the short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” in which Hemingway depicted a vague conversation between a man and a woman named Jig. By only portraying the surroundings such as the hills and the station, as well as providing the short conversation, Hemingway has given the reader a chance to be the narrator to self-interpret the couple’s feelings and thoughts
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James Bissell Mary Breland, Instructor English 102 February 3, 2011 Critical Review of “Hills Like White Elephants” In the story, “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, we are introduced to two main characters, Jig and the American. From the story, it appears that the couple has been living a carefree lifestyle, traveling around Europe, having a good time together. However, the couple has been faced with a dilemma that has caused much debate over the years. The couple is dealing
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either did not last long or I just did not mean anything to them. Jig was with an American and she did see the baby as the white elephant and that she did not want the cost to raise a child she did not see that the child would be a addition to her life drinking and the way that she wanted to travel. The similarities between the hills like white elephant and no name woman would be that both of the women became pregnant with a child that came from a relationship that was just not meant
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the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway the female character continuously talked of the clouds looked like white elephants. The woman and the American man hid their conflict throughout the entire story so that no one would know they were having problems. The female character of the short story talked about the clouds looking like white elephants because she was to never forget the decision she was to make in the not too distant future and the color white symbolized the purity
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the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway the female character continuously talked of the clouds looked like white elephants. The woman and the American man hid their conflict throughout the entire story so that no one would know they were having problems. The female character of the short story talked about the clouds looking like white elephants because she was to never forget the decision she was to make in the not too distant future and the color white symbolized the purity
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Danika White Donald Stanley ENGL 1001 Assignment 3 February 26 2014 Out of Necessity: The Compared and Contrasted Views of Two Marital Relationships. D.H Lawrence’s short story, “The Horse Dealers Daughter”, can be compared, as well as contrasted, to Ernest Hemmingway’s short story, “Hills like White Elephants”. Both of these stories have marital themes incorporated in, and present many similarities and differences. One striking comparison found within both is the implied marital necessity
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Furthermore, it also has some theme of romantic between the American and the girl. As the man explains” The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white”( Clugston,2010)the river represent a place of escape the “ white elephant” are a reminder of the consequence of a bad decision, that both will have to face later in life. Another symbol that is use in the story is “white” represents life which is the new unborn baby. The tone in the story changes in the middle of the conversation for
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