Elephants

to, is his sister still alive? And if so, what is it going to take to find her? Peter then goes over to the tent and that is when the fortuneteller gives him two very simple answers to his question, she lives, and an elephant will take you to her. In her novel, The Magicians Elephant, Kate DiCamillo uses very detailed imagery every step of the way to focus the reader’s attention on the theme of hope and compassion. This story focuses on idea and the feeling of what hope means to a young boy…

& Resources Needed Teacher: Video clip Claim/Counter Claim Graphic Organizer Computer Students Pencils Writing paper Lesson Implementation Activating Strategy Students will watch a video titled “World of Nature: Plight of the Asian Elephant” using the website…

"Hills Like White Elephants" is a very disturbing story by Ernest Hemingway about two characters that are arguing at a train station. I read this story several times and it pissed me off more, the more times I read it. The two characters are an American man and a lady known as Jig. The conflict in the story is about an operation that the man wants her to have and that the girl does not want performed. I think this is the best example of propaganda ever written to convince educated people that…

In the short story “Hills like White Elephants” written by Ernest Hemingway, I found there was a ton of symbolic meanings as the author told the story. This story gave a lot of opportunity for you to come up with a lot of your own conclusions. The plot of the story opens up at a train station surrounding by trees and hills in Spain. Hemingway gave a very descriptive detail that helps support the location. The story focuses on the two people in the bar at the train station. The two people…

In the recent decades, the Republic of Korea has seen a growth in mysogyny. The over-generalization that South Korean women only seek after men’s wealth, the increasing popularity of plastic surgery, and women’s desire to purchase designer accessories and apparels contribute to such hatred towards women in South Korea. However, South Korean men’s required participation in the military seems to remains to be the most contributive factor admist all other reasons. It is not completely irrational…

The author of this essay Ernest Hemingway used a white elephant to make understand the gravity of the decision the girl had to make in regards to her relationship with the American man. The main focus of this essay involves the complications that arise when a relationship faces with an unexpected pregnancy, especially in the early twenty century. The term white elephant means a gift that is not necessary and unfortunately, it cost more to keep and maintain the gift. This essay will focus on the…

Hills Like White Elephants According to the articles, Jig and the man was having argument whether she should have an abortion. The first thing to know is that everyone experiences abortion differently “The termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus: as a spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation — compare miscarriage; induced expulsion of a human fetus.” More than 11% of all…

Long Answer White Elephant What is important about what is not being said in the story? In other words ,what role does silence play in the story? What is important that is not being said in this story is, the abortion. The author does not directly tell the reader the man and women is having a discussion about the women not wanting to go through with the abortion. The story does give a lot of hints for example "It’s an awfully simple operation, Jib"(Line 51) this is the hint the author Ernest…

Water for Elephants, a novel written by Sara Gruen, tells the life story of a young man named Jacob Jankowski. This book shows an apparent idea of power, that is clearly applicable with the marxist lens. Gruen’s writing takes place in the 1930s, there was pressure to have land, possessions, and a good education in order to gain power in society during this time. The marxist lens effects characters decisions, drama in the story, and how the reader interprets the book. The marxist lens…

“Hills Like White Elephants” Jigs the American girl is more mature because she doesn't have peer pressure persuading her. The American man and Jigs are expecting, they are having a veryheated discussion on what she should do. The man wants Jigs to get abortion, so Jigs says she'll do it if it makes the man happy. Jigs just wants their relationship to go back the way it was before. The unborn child is the only thing that made both the man and Jigs unhappy. After awhile Jigs started…