Train station

nothing as important as the train station, and the places I’ve gone because of it when it comes to overcoming stuttering. I swung my backpack over my left shoulder and went up to the glass window. My voice clenched up, but I approached the counter anyway. “Can I have round trip tickets to ththth...thirtieth street station?” The station clerk nodded before I finished and handed me tickets to center-city Philadelphia. I left the ticket office and motioned to a station clerk. “Which track is fff.…

come back if I just wait for one more minute, but now I know there’s no point to waiting for you any more, because just like you could never get on a train in an airport, I could never expect the wrong person on the wrong place in a wrong time.” On that day they broke up. However, few years later, the Hongqiao Airport and the Hongqiao Railway station was linked together, and the designer is the boy in this story. After reading this story, I was surprised not by the shocking ending nor by how…

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…

a short film directed by Giacomo De Bello that details the encounter between two strangers at a train station. It follows these two characters as they travel and tells a story of attraction and hesitance. The film centers on their unique encounter without actually using dialogue to make the characters interact. The film starts with a guy sitting on a bench, tapping his leg as he waits for the train. A girl approaches the scene and it's as if the sound of her footsteps and his tapping combine…

There was some trouble on Grand Central and there are no express trains today and no trains running from Queens Borough Plaza to Times Square” the woman said to him. “Thank you ma’am” Matt said as he stepped away heading towards a door and sitting down on an empty seat. The car had started to fill up with people, and soon there were no more empty seats left for people to sit on, so instead they started to stand in the train car leaning on poles and standing by the doors. After ten minutes of…

to compare the life or death decision and the topic of abortion as a whole. Hemingway starts off by describing the setting. The couple is sitting at the bar in a train station that is settled between Madrid and Barcelona. On one side if the train station there are hills and the dry brown country. The opposite side of the train station is filled with trees, grain, and has a river in the distance. The dry country side represents the choice of death while the other side is filled with vegetation…

Hemmingway is about a couple that is sitting at a train station between Madrid and Barcalona struggling with a critical decision they are faced with. Hemmingway uses dialogue to tell the story and forces the reader to interpret what will happen next. The setting and symbolism gives the readers clues to understand the couple’s dilemma they are faced with. Hemmingway chose a public place for the setting for this story. This public place was a train station somewhere near Ebro, which is a river…

excited to go back home”. Mike replies “ yes I sure am.” Mike thought his conversation with Jason ended but it did not, Jason asked “ So how much did your train ticket cost for the holidays? How far advance did you buy your ticket for? Jason replies “Well …Well I got my ticket a long time ago and it was really cheap but ..but I don’t really have a train ticket at the moment”. Mike then begins to think twice why he said that and feels that Jason might tell the conductor that he does not have a…

his new homeland, America. Crispin is a hardworking man and one of the few gentlemen in west. The exposition of The Man from Skibbereen is young man named Crispin coming to America from Ireland. He is going on a train west to help build the railroad. When he gets off at a station to stretch his legs he accidentally gets left behind. He finds…

Hills Like White Elephants: Analysis In this short video, a man and a woman are portrayed at a train station, waiting for their train to arrive. While they wait, they converse with each other and have a few drinks. During their conversation, there were several clues that I noticed with nonverbal and verbal communication. Each of them communicated very differently, but neither of them were very effective in the ways that they communicated or approached topics. I will break up the story into…