Welsh language

“Take pride in how far you have come, and have Faith in how far you can go.” – Christian Larson. This quote eloquently explains the old man's adventure he had with the marlin in the book The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. To go more in depth, in his journey with the marlin he took in pride in never giving up on trying to catch the fish even with the ongoing pain he had to deal with. Along with pride, he also had faith by never giving excuses to himself to give up, and always thinking…

Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” is primarily a conversation between the American man and his girlfriend, Jig. The story’s setting takes place in a train station surrounded by hills, fields, and trees in a valley in Spain. The story starts off with the two sitting at a table outside the station, waiting for a train to Madrid. Throughout the story, the two order drinks to pass the time. Hemingway’s story is filled with metaphors, which explain the context of his story. Drinking allows the…

In Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway describes a couple’s decision on whether or not they should have an abortion. The man wants the abortion while the woman is being pressured and going back and forth on whether or not she wants the abortion. Ernest Hemingway uses symbolism, introduces modernism, and uses the setting as a means 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…

Earnest Hemingway; the interesting man with many different roles. He was born in 1899 in Illinois and started his career of writing at the young age of seventeen while working at a newspaper office located in Kansas City. Hemingway wrote many different novels, including his most famous works: “The Old Man and the Sea”, “To Have and Have Not”, and “The Sun Also Rises”. Earnest Hemingway was an important part to American Literature because of his unique writing style about very unique ideas. An…

Book Essay Two The book I read was “Man Overboard!” by Curtis Parkinson. This book takes place during world war II in 1943 and is about when german agents came to Canada by U-boat who came here to cause chaos but were stopped. This story begins with two high school students named Scott and Adam that are canadians that work during the summer of july of 1943 in a ship called Rapids Prince as deckhands. The ship was actually real during this time period that went from Prescott to Montreal that were…

Critics have pointed out many allusions, motifs, and themes regarding Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and “The Day It Happened” written by Rosario Morales. With many analyses written on these two stories, most readers should instantly see parallels that tether these two stories together. Not only do the blatant words of these stories captivate the reader’s attention but, the underlining connections are something to be spoken about. The use of man vs. female conflict sets the tone…

Ernest Hemingway’s writing was often influenced by his own life. During his life Hemingway struggled with his masculinity. In his Nick Adams stories the theme of masculinity is explored. Nick, like Hemingway, struggles with the constant need to be masculine. In these stories, Nick avoids the topics of his future and the war because of his need to be masculine. These topics inspire fear and the feeling of inferiority in Nick and masculinity includes neither fear nor inferiority. This is…

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.…