Hills Like White Elephant Essay Thesis

Amber Morenes and I, did our group presentation on Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants.” Our thesis was: Hemingway effectively portrays the socialized conflict between men and women’s gender roles through his use of dialogue. Illustrating the effect of socialized gender roles on identity through Jig’s reliance on the man to tell her how to be, as well as interpersonal communication by not being able to see each other's point of view about the abortion. Amber and I got our ideas through research on EbscoHost. We looked up themes on “Hills Like White Elephants” and we looked up symbolism on “Hills Like White Elephants” from there we were able to get enough literary criticism on the book, and get a better understanding on what Hemingway was saying in his short story. Through our research, we were able to find a common theme of sexism and how that affects identity and communication, and how that is portrayed in the story. In addition, we were able to come up with a claim, and make our three subclaims. To contribute to our ideas, I went back to the story and completely dissected it, and was able to see how Hemingway uses the conflict of sexism and find evidence on how that issue affects communication, which is shown between the “American” and Jig, as well as how it effects both of their identity.
My contributions were significant to the success of the group, because without getting evidence to support our claim, our presentation would not be insignificant, and powerless. And without paraphrasing, and simply just copy and pasting quotes, our presentation would not be original. Also, without a strong thesis, our audience would be lost, and not know exactly what we are trying to