The short story‚ “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway‚ is about a young couple and the issue about abortion. Hemingway’s use of effective literary devices; symbolism and setting is used to understand the story. In the short story‚ the word “abortion” is not actually used in the story‚ but using the literary devices it supports the understanding of the story. The setting is vital to the story. The story begins with a young couple referred to as “the American” and Jig waiting at the train
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Scott-Heron calls himself a bluesologist. He is sixty-one‚ tall and scrawny‚ and he lives in Harlem‚ in a ground-floor apartment that he doesn’t often leave. It is long and narrow‚ and there’s a bedspread covering a sliding glass door to a patio‚ so no light enters‚ making the place seem like a monk’s cell or a cave. Once‚ when I thought he was away‚ I called to convey a message‚ and he answered and said‚ “I’m here. Where else would a caveman be but in his cave?” Recently‚ I arrived at his apartment
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In “Hills like White Elephants” the story symbolizes about an abortion. But‚ how does the story show the word ‘abortion’? How does the man and woman use it in dialogue? How does Hemingway imply the word abortion‚ with using different abstract words to describe it? Ernest Hemingway does not even mention about the word ‘abortion’. He simply uses symbolism to enforce the idea to the reader that this couple is talking about getting an abortion. He uses the way of metaphor of fate in the couple’s conversation;
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Janice Heron is the teacher who has the honor of teaching a “golden mean” this year. Janice Heron refers to her class as the “golden mean” due to the fact that her students in this years class consisted of low‚ middle‚ and high socioeconomic statuses. This classroom was also made up of an equal percentage of hispanic‚ white‚ and black students (Silverman‚ Welty‚ & Lyon‚ 1996‚ p.125). Throughout her eighteen years of experience with teaching‚ Janice Heron has had the opportunity of working with students
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The Red Crested Night Heron in the short story‚ “Night calls” by Lisa Fugard‚ symbolizes the dad’s depression and sadness for the loss of his wife. The start of the story explains how Marlene‚ her dad‚ and her mom lived in a happy sanctuary for animals. The county graciously granted to the family‚ a beautiful and endangered‚ Red Crested Night Heron‚ to keep in their sanctuary. Sadly the mom‚ died in a car crash and Marlene’s father completely shut down and sent her off to boarding school. When Marlene
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Writers and Artists have something in common‚ they both paint the pictures and have a meaning in their work. People interpret their work differently and come up with similar results. In the story of Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants‚ it was a time where the man role is still dominant over woman. In the U.S. 19th Amendment made woman right to vote and started the beginnings of women joining the labor force. Three years before the Greatest Depression in history. Also it was time that abortions
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“Hills like White Elephants” and “Girl” Themes and Symbolism The themes and symbolism for the stories “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid work with the structure of said stories to create an understanding of a girl’s sexuality and how others attempt controlling it by providing symbols that uncover the truth that lies behind the words. In‚ “Hills like White Elephants”‚ the American man consistently and angrily persuades his girlfriend to have the operation
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HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS Hills Like White Elephants Abstract The Hills like White Elephants is primary a conversation between the American man and his girlfriend‚ neither of the speakers truely communicates with the other‚ highlighting the rift between the two. Both talk‚ but neither listens or understands the others point of view. Frustrated the man will say almost anything to convince his girlfriend to have the operation‚ which although never mentioned by name‚ is understood to be an
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The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” is about a couple that is located in Spain.They are having beer in front of a train station to take the train to Barcelona to Madrid.Throughout the story they argue about whether having the baby or having an abortion which is referenced as a surgery.The boyfriend doesn’t want her to have the baby he tells her that the surgery will be perfectly simple.He tries to persuade her that he knows a lot of people that have done the procedure.He thinks it’s the
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is about a Blue Heron‚ a bird‚ that is looking is looking for food in November. As I was reading the poem‚ I decided to focus on the first half of the poem for my melody. Picturing a Blue Heron walking through the cold ponds in November with his gray hunched shoulders made me think of the tempo and the dynamics for this piece. Right from the start‚ I knew that this melody could not be fast‚ allegro‚ or even
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