Elephant

Ernest Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” is a short dialogue story about a couple’s unavoidable shift in their relationship and the dilemma that they have no choice but to face. The story takes place at a train station in Spain, where the two main characters the American and Jig are sitting outside the station’s bar having drinks before their train arrives to take them to Madrid. While waiting for their train the couple tiptoe around the difficult situation they need to face about what to…

Ernest Hemingway’s short story, ''Hills like White Elephants'', is about a couple traveling throughout Spain. The couple known as Jig, the woman and The American man, are set in a train station waiting upon the next train to Madrid. The story then transitions settings as they enter a bar where they drink beer and small talk while they wait. In this story, there is a form of communication being utilized by the couple, virtually through the use of codes, endeavoring not to speak on a certain…

triangle, the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot and many more; but none of them trumps the disappearance of a nation overnight completely engulfed the ocean, which later through the course of history came to be known as the Atlantic Ocean. Addressing the elephant in the room, Atlantis was supposed to be a work of fiction by Athenian philosopher Plato, depicted as one of the most contentious and fascinating works ever written. According to Alan F. Alford, British writer and speaker on the subjects of…

Although the information on Jig in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”(Mays 590-94) is limited, it is inevitable that she is crucial to the story. Encompassing the main idea of the story, the minimal knowledge of the character accents the rather bigger picture of absentee dialogue and stripped details leaving readers questioning the motives of Hemingway and the overall point to the story. Looking deeper into the story though, it becomes much more than just a conversation between two…

“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway uses the Modernist elements of dialect while focusing on the concrete parts of it's story and setting, along with the strong sense of alienation that comes from the characters. Hemingway uses the Modernist style of only focusing on concrete details and using dialect to keep things to the point, even if it's in a bit of an elusive way. He doesn't mention it directly in the story, but it becomes apparent the “The American and the girl with him”,…

The Elephant Never Forget My happiness comes from something I hold dear to me. I have carried this with me my entire life, even when I did not know I had it. Sometimes I might misplace it, but with a little help from others I am able to find it. On occasion it makes me sad, angry, or frustrated but more than often it makes me excited, cheerful, and happy. Any guesses? No, it is not the blanket I was wrapped in at birth. In fact, it is not something that can be held. It is something inside of…

Like White Elephants’’ to illustrate the difficulties a couple is facing in making an important decison about their lives. Jig, the girl, is pregnant and her boyfriend, called the American, wants her to have an abortion. Each symbol represents the two ways the couple can go and their struggle to make a decision with which both parties will be happy. The most obvious symbol in this story are the white hills which, according to Jig, look like white elephants. On one hand white elephants are rare…

People should figure out what’s best for themselves. “Hills Like White Elephants” was written by Ernest Hemingway. That based on two characters the American man and Jig who were waiting at the humid train station to get to their destination from Madrid to Barcelona. They were seated at the bar inside the train station where they found some shade besides a bamboo bead curtain, refreshing alcohol, and discussed whether or not if Jig should continue on with her procedure. Hemingway had many sets…

In the short story, “Hills like White Elephants”, Ernest Hemingway parallels and amplifies the conflict between Jig and her American. The symbolism of the white elephants further emphasizes the subject of the story. Hemingway did a great job in comparing the white elephants to an unborn baby. The symbolisms in the story are white elephants, the train station, and alcoholic beverages. The white elephants symbolize a consequence no one wants which refers to Jig’s unborn child. In the beginning of…

Becoming a mother is hard in any day or age, especially when the father is unsure he wants his own child. It is hard in the sense that it is an occupation without days off, it is costly, both in time and money, and above all it marks the point in one’s life where they are incapable of putting themselves first from here on out. With abortion being such a controversial topic, one is shunned either way for their decision. Some are angry for a mother to keep her baby if the baby’s life is not fully…