Compare And Contrast Hills Like White Elephant And The Veldt

In both Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt”, dialogue is used effectively in enhancing the atmosphere of the story. Although both have similar mood, the ways the authors present the dialogue are different, for in “The Veldt”, Bradbury includes many other setting descriptions. Whereas, “Hills Like White Elephants” is a story created purely with dialogue. Also, how the characters interact with each other is different. In “Hill’s Like White Elephants” the setting is described through the characters’ conversation. By not using extra words to describe the setting, the readers have more opened space to imagine the tone of the characters because there is no restriction to what the characters are like or what exactly the setting is like. On the other Hand, “The Veldt” uses many paragraphs to describe the setting. This limits readers’ imagination of how the characters speak because more information is provided. Although both author achieve to create the tension mood, “Hill’s Like White Elephants” takes longer time to build up to the intense atmosphere due to the lack of description, where “The Veldt” offers it from the start
In “Hills Like White Elephants”, the two characters know what they are talking about; however, they try avoiding the problem and are not rally communicating with each other. As appose to it, the characters in “The Veldt” are actually communicating with one another but failed to recognize the problem. The death of the parents would bee a great example of their failure. In other words, characters in “Hills Like White Elephants” are not talking to each other but both know what they are on to; but the characters in “The Veldt” are actually talking and understanding each other but they don not understand the problem; which is to say, the characters are in totally opposite