Hills Like White Elephants, By Ernest Hemmingway

Elephants were introduced to the circus in the 19th century, the most famous was Barnum’s Jumbo, the largest elephant in circus history. Nowadays, however, animals have been removed from the circus due to complaints of animal cruelty and potential endanger of the audience. While the animals appear happy as they perform their routines, animals have been known to break away from their trainers and run loose; consequently, they can be targeted as a threat to the audience and members of the circus. Winner of the 2008 Keene Prize for Literature, “Elephant’s Graveyard” by George Brant bases his script on a true story and the events of a circus and an elephant during the year 1916 in Erwin, Tennessee, through the interpretation of eye-witness accounts of the collision of Sparks Circus. Such performance

What is the purpose of the trip the two travelers are taking? (The narrator never tells us, but the careful reader can deduce this with relative certainty.)

Throughout history, power dynamics between men and women has persisted in literature, and it makes for good entertainment.

Ernest Hemingway was a groundbreaking author during the 20th century and he left behind many famous pieces of work. He used his own life experiences to contribute ideas and inspiration for his stories whether they involve his military career or his family life (“Ernest Hemingway). Hemingway also uses language in such ways that can convey feelings and ideas throughout his pieces. His use of language and dialogue in some of his short stories really paint a picture for the reader on the situations presented (Link). In the short story, “Hills Like White Elephants,” Hemingway uses Jig’s ambivalence towards the whole situation with herself and the American to convey the idea that Jig holds all the power in the decision although the American, who is powerless, believes he has a say in the matter.

The book New Found Land was written by Allan Wolf in 2004, Allan used striking poetic features and fictional characters to recreate Lewis and Clark 's expedition across the continent. There mission, find the fabled Northwest passage to the pacific ocean, this group of courageous Americans may never come back. Through his use of Historical and fictional characters, Wolf was able to showcase the different viewpoints of Lewis and Clark 's crew. One of the key characters that led the expedition to success was Meriwether Lewis. I chose to look up his last name due to the fact that his last name is the more well known than his first name. Lewis is the english form of the french name Louis, this form was also derived from the german name Ludwig

“What does it mean?”, a question most would ask themselves after reading the short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. In both the stories, the authors left the importance of the events lie beneath the story, through the voice of the narrator. These two stories often cause the reader to question the story 's sole purpose, and leaves them with many questions since the important themes are strategically placed beneath the surface of the story, in the subtext. Both Faulkner and Hemingway leave a great amount of information unsaid, yet provide enough evidence for the reader to conclude what the story must actually be about. These two stories have a similar theme; something along

In the book Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, Kidder accompanies a doctor names Paul Farmer. Paul Farmer is a man who travels to different parts of the world including Peru, Haiti, Cuba and many more to help and cure patients with Tuberculosis(TB) and other illnesses. One of the illnesses that the books focuses on is multi drug resistant(MDR) TB. Multi drug resistant TB is a form in which a patient with TB forms or obtains a strain that is resistant to one or more drugs used to combat the illness. While trying to treat this illness, Farmer and his fellow colleagues had to overcome many obstacles. Out of the many obstacles faced, cost for medicine is one of the main ones.

Paul Farmer came from a family who had little to offer him beside their outpouring love and sense of adventure. He had many places to call home, and would never really get comfortable in one spot because often his family would pick up and move. Farmer was inspired by great leadership, his father, growing up and would in turn become a great leader on his quest to rid the world of poverty and illness. Mountains Beyond Mountains written by Tracy Kidder, depicts Farmer’s mission to provide health care internationally and talks about all the difficulties that Farmer and his team had to overcome.

Lack of detail in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” impacts reading. The lack of detail in “Hills like White Elephants” makes it hard for the reader to understand what is happening.

In literature, authors use a certain image or collection of images in order to produce a particular effect, eliciting a response from the reader’s senses. Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” utilizes the imagery of the train station in order to produce the effect of transition between the characters, both in terms of physical location and emotional mindset. Much like Hemingway, James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” takes a similar approach, using Sonny’s passion for music to expose his deepest insecurities. Though their approaches are different, both authors use imagery to create a pathway to the character’s internal thoughts.

Ernest Hemmingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” is narrated in an omniscient third-person point of view. Hemingway’s minimalistic style doesn’t discuss many characters in the story, but rather focuses on their engagements and discourse. The narrator in this story gives little to no insight into what is happening. However, with this style of writing, Hemingway is able to present many themes that are apparent throughout the short story.  One of the themes I have chosen to focus on is alcohol.  Alcohol is highlighted throughout the two-character’s serious discussion. The conversation is full of tension regarding the operation that the man wants the girl to undergo.  With all this tension, the alcohol seems to act as a distraction or escape

In his story Hills Like White Elephants, author Ernest Hemmingway abandons descriptive, drawn out sentences and instead strips his story down to the basics. His decision to condense the story adds embedded emotion not through words, but instead, through the form. The short sentence length and vast amount of white space between each response brings forward the stiffness, as well as emotional distance between the two characters. Hemmingway creates a literary environment where only a small amount of the action is explicitly given while the majority is left for the reader to uncover and interpret. This passage, and the story as a whole, ilustrates how these characters talk with each other, but never constructively communicate.

The hills may look like white elephants, but is there an elephant in the room? “Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story by Ernst Hemmingway, published in 1927 in the collection, Men Without Women (New York: Scribner's Sons) 1927. The main characters are the American man and "a girl", there are sitting drinking beer in a bar at a train station waiting for the next train to Madrid Spain. They are engaged in small talk.

“Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood share a gender-oriented theme. They both show women struggling to attain equality against their male partners. This theme is depicted through the use of symbolism, point of view and plot conflict.

In an analysis of the story “Hills like white elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway, one is forced to take a deep look at the hidden meanings embedded in the story. Considering the point of view, the significance of the location and its relevance to the story, the structure of the text, the symbolic meaning of the two landscapes and the title of the story, the entrails of the story are exposed.