Elephant

Compare narrative point of view between “The Story of an Hour” and “Hills Like White Elephants” There are two stories that we have read with our instructor in class both of them agreed on the same point of view. Women should be treated well and care of their emotions. They are humans that the most sensitive in the world. The culture and society was giving rules that the woman has to stay at the house and just be house maids without any thinking of working outside the house. The other thing, the…

I sat on the shelf next to the elephants and the giraffes. I was big, white, and fluffy. I always wear my pink ribbon around my neck, because it would show all of the other bunnies that I was the best bunny in the store. I had a perfect view out of the window. I watched all the snotty children running around with their parents. They would always pick me up then there rude parents would tell them no. How rude of them. It was the same boring routine every day. I would sit on my shelf watching out…

Question #5 Woo, the narrator, was able to connect with her dead mother and accept her Chinese heritage by fulfilling her mother’s dream of returning to China and finding the mother’s twin daughters, Woo’s half-sisters. As soon as the narrator’s train left the Hong Kong’s border to enter Shenzhen, as her mother, Suyuan, predicted, Woo could feel and see she was becoming Chinese, stating, “I feel different. I can feel the skin on my forehead tingling, my blood rushing through a new course,…

Will women ever be granted full equality? Given how much time American society has had to resolve this topic, it seems almost ludicrous that this question must be asked. But it must be asked. Though over a century has passed since the Modernist period, the struggle for gender equality is still a very real, ongoing battle. Progress has been made, however. This progress can be largely attributed to the women who subtly or explicitly endeavored to change the social constructs that defined the…

Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”: The Norton Introduction to Literature (Hemmingway 590), is a short story that plays out in a bar. My initial assessment of the dialogue between a man only described as an American and what I believe is his girlfriend named Jig is one of amusement. It is just an interesting, lighthearted banter exchange between two individuals over drinks, passing the time until the train arrives. I was roughly half way through my initial reading when I slowed…

(Weeks Jr., L. E., 1980) The themes of “Hills like White Elephants” are the “choices and consequences” of an unmarried couple in the midst of a disagreement about abortion, which the American believes in the choice for abortion will free them to what they were before and Jig believes more realistic consideration of the choices and consequences. “Doubt and ambiguity” is another them that covered through the whole story, which the American is not careful of how he communicate with Jig, and Jig is…

The story of “Hills Like White Elephants” leaves clues on moral choices. One of the characters, the girl, gives a great example of a moral choice she made. The girl was with the man at a train station, surrounded by the sun, no trees, no shade. The girl was waiting for the train so that she could go to Madrid to have an operation. Having the operation was not the girl’s idea, it was the man who deiced to do so. While waiting for the train to arrive the man tried to comfort the girl that it was…

Mahatma Gandhi once said that “keep your values positive because your values becomes your destiny” (Jelly), and the two pieces of literature Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell and The Guest by Albert Camus both talk about how people’s values can come into conflict. They both also talk about how based on the choices that people make at that particular moment in their life that choice will impact them for the rest of their lives. There are times when people come across a situation which puts…

Many stories have endings which leave the audience asking what happens next? They end with cliffhangers and loose ties which leave readers with deep curiosity and thoughts possible ways the story could have concluded. In Hills Like White Elephants, by Ernest Hemingway, at the conclusion of the story, the reader questions if a man and Jig, a woman, decide to either have an abortion or marry. In the early 1900’s, adoption and single parenthood were not viable options, restricting the couple’s…

Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story that only uses barbed dialogue to characterize a extremely tense conversation between a American man and his girlfriend, a young women named Jig. The story opens in a untraditional manner with no background, no indication of the characters emotions, and substantially seems to have no purpose. Hemingway himself gives the impression of utter detachment from the characters. He places the reader in a position as if they are listening…