White elephant

In the “hills like White Elephant” is identified as third-person narrator. The narrator gave the readers very little information on the operation or what was going on exactly. The author didn’t give us a lot of information about what exactly the characters were thinking but of what they say. Although the author doesn’t give the readers to much information he does provide us with the scenery (Spain) and described the weather as blazing hot. The narrator describes the beginning of the story at a…

“Hills like White Elephants” by Ernst Hemingway by very confusing. I had no idea what it was about. Annotating it didn’t help either. I had to ask a friend what the man and woman were talking about. Once she told me that the man was trying to get woman to have an abortion, I had to reread the story and having the idea of abortion in my head. Without my friend there, I would have been so confused I wouldn’t know what to do. I also had to go back and annotate it differently. In class, we learned…

Dogs on Hills In the short story, "Hills like White Elephants," by author Ernest Hemingway who was published in 1927 writes about a couple waiting for their train to arrive. An American man and the girl he calls "Jig" in Spain. Throughout this story the American is trying to convince Jig to have a particular operation. Which the readers later find out is an abortion. On another note, in the story, "The Lady with the Dog" written by Anton Chekhov who was published in 1899 talks about an older…

"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…

Hemingway fills his story, “Hills Like White Elephants” with an assortment of symbols that help portray the overall theme of the story. Through this symbolism Ernest Hemingway creates the world around the couple waiting for the train and further develops the seemingly petty squabble between them in to a fight against the human condition. Symbols in Hemingway’s story vary from the grandeur to the seemingly miniscule. However, all the symbolism in “Hills Like White Elephants” present the shaky…

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 girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and the country was brown and dry. ‘They look like white elephants,’ she said” (Hemingway 70). Completed in 1927, as recorded by Hal Holladay’s article Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway published one of his most famous short stories called Hills Like White Elephants (1). In this piece and in his other works as well, Hemingway was notorious for using the “iceberg” technique to reveal the setting and situation of…

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…

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…

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…