Irvine Welsh

In the story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, symbols are jumping out at you all throughout the read. A symbol that stood out was the hills that the girl said looked like white elephants. This is unifying because it can portray the phrase the elephant in the room which means something that creates tension in a situation but isn’t talked about and the term “white elephant” can mean a possession that is useless or troublesome; especially if it is expensive to maintain or difficult…

Hills like white elephants is a story of a couple waiting at a train station in Spain. The couple is facing a significant life changing decision; should the women get an abortion or keep the child. As they are communicating the conversation remains very vague and unreassuring. The couple never goes into detail of the abortion. Making the theme of this story: Clear communication is significant to make life decisions without creating doubt. Hemingway expands on this theme by using symbolism, Point…

Though the subject, setting, point of view, dialog, and overall brevity of Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” all combine to create a desperately fantastic story, the symbolism present in only the title contributes and reveals more to the reader than any other singular aspect of the work as the story progresses. The symbolism that is ever-present is vital to enhancing the seemingly shallow story, as well as truly understanding the circumstances and characters of the brief work.…

In “Hills Like White Elephants” the reader is set inside the troubled relationship of the man and the girl. First, the man tries to tell the girl what to do with her body. Next, the man and the girl only find temporary relief from their arguing. Lastly, the man tries to control the direction of their relationship. The man is controlling while the girl is hopeless in several ways. First, the man tries to tell the girl what to do with her body. The girl brings to the man’s attention the hills:…

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…

“Hills Like White Elephants” The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway was written in 1927. Ernest Hemingway was born in 1898 in Oak Park, Illinois. He worked as a reporter on the Kansas City Star; this was the start of his career. During this time, eighteen-year-old Hemingway was wounded while volunteering as an ambulance driver in World War I. Hemingway had many successes in his career. After moving to Key West, Florida, then to Cuba, he wrote one of his most…

Jig is a code hero, and she shows no emotions because they cannot, she has to be strong and brave. In November 1954, Hemingway became the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His last years were very troubled he was physically and mentally ill. He committed suicide on July 2 1961. The Old Man and the Sea was Hemingway's last novel published during his lifetime. In “Hills Like White Elephants”, Jig is not going to have an abortion because she lives by the code hero to not show…

In the book The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway included many institutions of symbolism. The Old Man And The Sea was the last book written by Ernest Hemingway in 1952 before his death in Idaho in 1961. The symbolism includes the comparison of Santiago when he was younger to the great baseball player Joe DiMaggio. Other examples of symbolism include; the marlin which symbolizes Santiago as his older and current self. Another use of symbolism is comparing Manolin, the young boy, to the…

“Antlers” and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” - Compare/Contrast Rick Bass and Ernest Hemingway are two superb writers who created very different stories that hold the same values. Both stories have varying amounts of similarities and differences, such as motifs and themes, but in the end the pieces ultimately show how isolation and a meaningless storyline can represent something more than what it seems. By including the author 's life experiences and background, the final thoughts about each…

A living person is identified as someone that is a living creature, that includes having a range of emotions that distinguish character traits. A book that showcases this successfully is “The Old Man and the Sea” a novel written by Ernest Hemingway that was published on September 1, 1952. It tells the story of a fisherman named Santiago that has had no luck in catching fish in 84 days. There is also a boy named Manolin, and together they help each other in many ways until one day Manolin leaves…