Hills Like White Elephant By Hemingway

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In the “hills like White Elephant” is identified as third-person narrator. The narrator gave the readers very little information on the operation or what was going on exactly. The author didn’t give us a lot of information about what exactly the characters were thinking but of what they say. Although the author doesn’t give the readers to much information he does provide us with the scenery (Spain) and described the weather as blazing hot. The narrator describes the beginning of the story at a train station in the hills across the valley of the Ebro between Barcelona and Madrid. Hemingway gives the audience a description of there being no trees, no shade and warm shadow. The reasoning behind this was because the narrator wanted the location

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