Ernest Hemmingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'
HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS: A TRANSITIVITY ANALYSIS
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INTRODUCTION
Human beings can communicate with each other. We are able to exchange knowledge, beliefs, opinions, wishes, threats, commands, thanks, promises, declarations, and feelings – only our imagination sets limits. We can laugh to express amusement, happiness, or disrespect, we can smile to express amusement, pleasure, approval, or bitter feelings, we can shriek to express anger, excitement, or fear, we can clench our fists to express determination, anger or a threat, we can raise our eyebrows to express surprise or disapproval, and so on, but our system of communication before anything else is LANGUAGE.
In linguistics, language meaning is …show more content…
Therefore, this paper would like to examine the transitivity process employed in this short story to reveal the message lies in every word the characters uttered. ANALYSIS
Hills like White Elephants introduced to us the setting of this short story in the train station surrounded by hills, fields, and trees in a valley in Spain. A man known simply as the American and his girlfriend sit at a table outside the station, waiting for a train to Madrid.
“What would we drink?” the girl asked and continued
“Let’s drink beer” As the first initiator to open a conversation it seems that she had something bothering her and “beer” an alcohol signifies wanting to forget something and wants to cool herself off.
She even noticed simple thing such as “they look like white elephants”. Pertaining to the hills across their window which later on she dismissed saying they don’t look like white elephants to her anymore, something like no one would want to have ~ her unborn …show more content…
And if they don’t do it, could the man still be the same to their relationship?
With the authors style in substituting words which would definitely makes confusion, the reader will need to thick critically and analyze everything ~ every words involved for them not to misunderstand and misinterpret anything and for them to finally give their ideas and opinions about the main point of discussion in the story.
“I’ll go with you and I’ll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it’s all perfectly natural”. This statement is uttered by the American to his Girlfriend Jig,
They’ particularly for the practitioners who would be given the said Operation and “let the air’ means the process on how it will come off as natural as if nothing have happen, an ABORTION.
Note, that this is strictly prohibited in any church issues.
CONCLUSION: When I first read the story of hills like white elephants with its form and the flow is just a mean and casual conversation between a couple who got bored from waiting and started talking to each other, and that confuse the reader that without knowing it they are actually talking about having an
(erckspdr.)
INTRODUCTION
Human beings can communicate with each other. We are able to exchange knowledge, beliefs, opinions, wishes, threats, commands, thanks, promises, declarations, and feelings – only our imagination sets limits. We can laugh to express amusement, happiness, or disrespect, we can smile to express amusement, pleasure, approval, or bitter feelings, we can shriek to express anger, excitement, or fear, we can clench our fists to express determination, anger or a threat, we can raise our eyebrows to express surprise or disapproval, and so on, but our system of communication before anything else is LANGUAGE.
In linguistics, language meaning is …show more content…
Therefore, this paper would like to examine the transitivity process employed in this short story to reveal the message lies in every word the characters uttered. ANALYSIS
Hills like White Elephants introduced to us the setting of this short story in the train station surrounded by hills, fields, and trees in a valley in Spain. A man known simply as the American and his girlfriend sit at a table outside the station, waiting for a train to Madrid.
“What would we drink?” the girl asked and continued
“Let’s drink beer” As the first initiator to open a conversation it seems that she had something bothering her and “beer” an alcohol signifies wanting to forget something and wants to cool herself off.
She even noticed simple thing such as “they look like white elephants”. Pertaining to the hills across their window which later on she dismissed saying they don’t look like white elephants to her anymore, something like no one would want to have ~ her unborn …show more content…
And if they don’t do it, could the man still be the same to their relationship?
With the authors style in substituting words which would definitely makes confusion, the reader will need to thick critically and analyze everything ~ every words involved for them not to misunderstand and misinterpret anything and for them to finally give their ideas and opinions about the main point of discussion in the story.
“I’ll go with you and I’ll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it’s all perfectly natural”. This statement is uttered by the American to his Girlfriend Jig,
They’ particularly for the practitioners who would be given the said Operation and “let the air’ means the process on how it will come off as natural as if nothing have happen, an ABORTION.
Note, that this is strictly prohibited in any church issues.
CONCLUSION: When I first read the story of hills like white elephants with its form and the flow is just a mean and casual conversation between a couple who got bored from waiting and started talking to each other, and that confuse the reader that without knowing it they are actually talking about having an