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    Short Stories, Big Meanings: Hemingway’s Literary Techniques Hemingway is well known for his short stories. These concise stories aren’t short for lack of inspiration or laziness, but because they simply consist of everything that needed to be written. Many literary techniques are shared between Hemingway’s short stories, and yet every story is strikingly different in its own way. The techniques Hemingway uses in his writing make reading even his shortest stories an immersive literary experience

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    “Hills like White Elephants” Reflection In “Hills like White Elephants”, a vacationing couple vaguely speaks their mind on harsh decisions that will affect their relationship. While abortion is still a controversial topic, prior to the Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion was prohibited in 30 states making it a difficult process in 1927. Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” describes the human response of two American tourists in Europe on issues such as age and morality through the use of figurative

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    Link, A 2004, 'Staking everything on it: a stylistic analysis of linguistic patterns in 'Hills Like White Elephants'', The Hemingway Review, 2, p. 66, Literature Resource Center, EBSCOhost, viewed 23 March 2017. In “Staking everything on it: a stylistic analysis of linguistic patterns in 'Hills Like White Elephants”, Alex Link analyzes the grammatical patterns in “Hills Like White Elephants” that open up new ways of interoperating the story. Link gives two explanations on the grammatical patterns:

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    The topic of "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway continues to be a hot button issue, even 90 years after the story's publication. Though not as scandalous as it must have been in 1927, it remains the subject of great debate. Two lovers are awaiting a train that will whisk them away to Madrid for the purpose of an abortion. Even though the decision was made before arriving at the station, they continue to debate whether she will go through with it. The American's persuasive dialogue makes

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    Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899 and died on July 2, 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. He died supposedly self-inflicted gunshot wound, He developed his passion for writing during his high school years. He continued perfecting his writing abilities while reporting for the Kansas City Star Newspaper. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for his literature in 1954; as well as receiving a prestigious Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Old Man and the Sea. The short story, Hills Like White

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    life. These developments along with World War I allow for the birth of Modernism. Modernism represents the uncertainty drudgery of contemporary life and the desire to achieve a new social order capable of overcoming the failures of the past. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald present readers with two different accounts of modern life rooted in the same context of “American life.” European Modernism and American Modernism, while sharing broadly similar characteristics, engage in different projects

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    35. After that, the median earning for women is typically 75-80 percent of what men are paid. This repression is revealed in the short stories “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. In America, there are many causes of women repression, however the three most prominent causes are society, tradition, and religion. In the short story “The Lottery,” the lottery was important for the society’s rules and

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    Cybill Greenburg Professor Garfinkle English 110 BC March 9, 2016 Moments of Grace: A Comparison Essay The short stories Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and David Foster Wallace’s “Good People” both deal with how an unplanned pregnancy can affect a love relationship. Hemingway’s use of dialogue in a brief and tense style, of plainly descriptive narration, while Wallace’s stream of consciousness style of narration that clearly describe the couple’s relationship. These distinct narrative

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    Inadequate communication between two individuals can result to impromptu complexity that can generate further problems buried within the relationship. Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Hills Like White Elephants”, depicts an American man and women undergoing a vivid and sensible conversation whilst waiting for a train to Barcelona. The prominent theme throughout this anecdote is the problem of communication that can be illustrated via the elements of realism and metaphor. This is evident from beginning

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    “Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway: The Morality Within the Operation Ernest Hemingway created the iceberg theory, by which he expects the reader to know a great deal of information from the little he expresses. This style is evident in his short story, “Hills Like White Elephants,” because the information the reader must obtain is hidden underneath the surface. This writing style confuses the reader for the most part, but when the short story is given a chance, the reader connects

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