Broken Hill Essay

In Hills Like White Elephants, the story opens up with a description of the scenery. There is a couple that is at a train station at a bar going somewhere far. Throughout the story, the couple is having a conversation about something that is never mentioned. However, by paying attention to the characters, the language, and the symbolism, one can see that the conversation is about an abortion and that the couple’s relationship is falling apart. Ernest Hemingway uses characters, sexism, and the setting and symbolism to give the readers a chance to know couple and see their broken relationship.

major factor in his detachment from society. Of course, he does it to himself, and

In the book, Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caufield, the main character is a negatively charged person, doesn't want himself or others around him to grow up, and suffers from depression because of his brothers death. This is obviously Holden's way of alienating the entire world and delaying the consequences of facing reality. Alienation is a big theme in Catcher In The Rye, and something that Holden depends on most often.

     J. D. Salinger’s only published full-length novel, The Catcher in the Rye, has become one of the most enduring classics of American literature. The novel’s story is told in retrospect by the main character, Holden Caulfield, while staying in a psychiatric hospital in California. This is a coming of age tale that is wrought with irony. Holden Caulfield, Mr. Antolini, and Phoebe are the main symbols of irony.

From the beginning of Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”, Jig has been a character of mystery, even until the very end of the short story. During the American’s and Jig’s whole conversation, it seemed as though everything was uneasy; and that’s because it was. The whole text was a conversation about the American wanting Jig to abort her baby during a time when abortion was still fairly new.

For the Puritans in the early New England colonies life was by no means easy, but there was the possibility to expand their beliefs free from the persecution from Church of England. They had the opportunity to create their ideal society under God with the bible as their law from which they would define how to live. The Puritans set out to create their model society which could spread and cull the impurities from the church. But how did these beliefs and goals ultimately effect their society?

In the novel Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist proves to be quite a self contradicting character. His mind is often pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires. One compelling force would be Holden’s wish for a companion against his actions and approach towards people and society. Another would be his yearn to preserve innocence compared to his desire to fit in with adults. Both of these contradicting forces within the main character, Holden, illuminate the meaning of the novel as a whole.

There are many issues that teens deal with in high school, such as depression, alcohol, friendship troubles, and discrimination. The four novels, The Catcher in the Rye, Unbroken, The Scorch Trials, and Prisoner B-3087 each depict one of these issues. I personally have gone through some of these difficulties during my time in high school, and the experiences have helped made me who am I am today. Throughout J. D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden, struggles with mental issues.

The main character in the short story "Hills Like White Elephants," written by Ernest Hemingway, is an older man known as the American. The American and the girl are having some beers called Anis del Toro, which the girl compares to "liquorice"outside the station as they wait for the train to Madrid. The two have an tense argument, and soon the man begins trying to convince Jig to have an abortion, which the man reassures her is "awfully simple....not really an operation at all....all perfectly natural." "But i don't want you to to it if you don't really want to," he says repeatedly. She agrees to have the abortion, but says, "Then i'll do it. Because I don't care about me." The American in the short story, "Hills Like White Elephants by Hemingway, seems to be caring, but is in reality more of a insensitive, uncaring man who tries to persuade Jig into an abortion.

This paper proposes to delineate the characteristics of Holden Caulfield, the adolescent protagonist hero of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and illuminate the reasons as to why this prototype of brooding adolescence, displaying a rather uber-cool style of disaffection, disenchantment and disillusionment became an indispensable figure of interest, in literary circles as well as popular culture. The paper seeks to take issue with the wider dimensions attached to the ‘incapacitation and debilitation’ Holden is often accused of and address Salinger’s vision behind etching Caulfield precisely the way he is. The paper also wishes to foreground the socio-political implications that reverberate within the rubric of the novel, Holden’s

     The story “Hills Like White Elephants” is about a couple who discuss an abortion. The American in the story addresses it as a “simple operation,” (487) while Jig seems to feel it is the wrong choice. I feel the man is encouraging her to have the abortion done in his own selfish way.

In the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, the plot of the story takes place at a train station in the middle of Madrid, the couple is sitting, waiting for the express to Barcelona having more than just a few beers. The point of view Hemingway uses is third person objective as if we are sitting there listening in on their conversation. The conversation the couple is having is about getting an abortion. The American seems like he wants the abortion but we don’t know what the girl wants, we only know her name and that she isn’t American. I believe that the girl will have the abortion and the couple will stay together because the American loves her and if she has the abortion he will stay with her and will feel less stressed

Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants” begins with an American man and a girl waiting at a Spanish train station in Barcelona for the express to take them to Madrid. They drink a variety of beers and discuss the “simple operation” the girl should have. The couple argues throughout the story about whether or not the woman should go through with her operation.

The story “Hills Like White Elephants”, by Ernest Hemingway, sets up in Spain on a train station. A couple who are waiting for a train, are discussing an important topic that they both are trying to avoid but simultaneously solve. The man known identified as “American” is trying to persuade his girlfriend on having an operation. The American seems to be positive about his decision and looks like he does not want to change his mind. In the other hand, the girl is indecisive on the whole idea of the operation throughout most of the story.

The evolution of the female character identity in “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway As part of human nature, it is not uncommon for an individual to attempt to impose his own way of thinking or acting on those he believes he can control. In occasions, a sense of inferiority or fear can make us accept those circumstances, and, thus, act against our own will. Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” short story focuses on the strained relationship of its main characters: the American and Jig. Throughout his narrative, the author places special emphasis on two detrimental human characteristics: selfishness and individuality. The setting of the story takes place in an isolated train station located between cities of Barcelona and