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Commitment In Hills Like White Elephants
Commitment is one of the scariest things for individuals to do. Commitment could be define as sticking with something, putting all your interest, time and effort into it. Commitment can be applied to many things like, someone’s career or relationships. Commitment is the base of someone’s relationship, without that first step which is committing, the relationship will not be stable and it will not exist in the future. It is one of the main keys and one of the very first steps for a steady relationship. This concept is well is illustrated in the story “Hills like white elephant”.
The characters in “Hills like white elephant”, Jig and the American man, had problems in their relationship. People have a hard time with relationships, even when they

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