The Hills

linguistic success. “The use of symbols in Hills Look Like White Elephants all revolve around the underlying issue the couple is having about making some highly important decisions. As previously discussed the women, Jig, is avoiding communication with the man. The man, however, is not listening to what the woman has to say about the matter.” over time developed and transformed itself into a more appropriate P.I.E formatted introduction to the usage of symbols in “Hills Like White Elephants”…

Most often men look at situations from a logical stance along with speaking their mind. Alternatively, women view situations from their emotional side, and at times speak in code, a code for which the male intellect lacks the key. In Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” there are two Americans traveling in Spain. The setting of the scene is a bar located near the train station where a life altering conversation takes place as they await the arrival of the train to Madrid. The man is…

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…

larger idea. A person’s meaning can be more than just the words they are speaking, very much like and iceberg; 1/8 of the iceberg is visible, but under the surface, the true size is revealed. Ernest Hemingway used this technique in his short story “Hills like White Elephants.” The story is about two people, a man and a woman, sitting at the train station having beers and talking. At first it is just small talk, but then the man brings up the fact that the woman, Jig, should have the operation.…

From 1973 through 2011, 53 million legal abortions occurred in the United States. “Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story about a man and woman with an unwanted pregnancy. Abortion is a major concern in the US and Hemingway gives us an in depth, 3rd person view into it. He also provides us with the internal effects on thousands of couples everyday. The story starts out with a man and woman waiting for a train at a station in the desert and they order beers as they wait. We don’t know about…

It was the morning of September the 22th in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee. The tree leaves was just starting to change their colors. I was soon to be married to the love of my life and I was overwhelmed with joy, in thirty minutes to an hour we will finally be husband and wife. Boy how I was wrong! The whole wedding and reception didn’t take almost an hour. It was a small wedding, just close friends and intermediate family only. At most we had twenty five to thirty people…

had their first new born might instantaneously have a desire for a new vehicle, perhaps a minivan. I personally believe Napoleon Hill quotes it best in his book, Think and Grow Rich, “The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.” (Hill.168). Napoleon Hill, was a well- known author who had influenced many people to be successful through his books and speeches. After reading…

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…

ability to allow readers to connect the dots for themselves when reading his stories. A hundred different people could read one of his pieces of writing and come up with a hundred different ideas on what he is writing about. In the short story, “Hills Like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway creates a narrative piece. It is a dialog between an American man and a woman named Jig. The two of them are sitting at a train station in Spain; waiting for a train to go to Madrid. The conversation that…

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…