Train station

hills, the separation depicted in the setting and the luggage, to help prove the fragile relationship between the American and the girl. The story is set in the Ebro Valley between Madrid and Barcelona at a train station. Surrounding the train station are white hills that are separated by the train tracks. On one side of the tracks the hills are barren and desolate and on the other side a river flows through rich nourished land. The reader is able to use these symbols in the surrounding setting to understand

by Hemingway “focuses on a conversation between an American man and a girl at a Spanish train station while waiting for a train to Madrid. The girl compares the nearby hills to white elephants. The pair indirectly discuss an ‘operation’ that the man apparently wants the girl to have, which is implied to be an abortion.” (wikipedia.com) “Hills Like White Elephants” takes place at a train station. The station is not their final destination but just a stop along the way. This is to represent that their

"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway is a short story that takes place at a train station in Madrid, where a couple is having a discussion over the consideration of a vague procedure that the man has proposed. The couple sits alone outside the station at the only shaded table on a hot day drinking beers as a disagreement between the two unfolds. The man wants her to have the procedure and subtly tries to convince her but as the story progresses, it becomes clear she strongly

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

_ Setting up of Corpus Fund at Stations’ upkeep. _ Extending use of CCTVs at stations to monitor cleanliness activities. _ Printing of all India level complaint/helpline number on PRS tickets and introduction of system of third party inspections. _ Extension of onboard Housekeeping services to all important trains. _ Increasing mechanized laundries for quality bedrolls in AC coaches. _ Introduction of RO drinking water units at Stations and in trains on experimental basis. _ Encouraging

organisational process of buying a train ticket. In particular, I will be looking at concepts such as the rate of diffusion, the technological agency and also the views of hard and soft technological determinism. Smith and Marx (1998:14) describe technological determinism as “the human tendency to create the kind of society that invests technologies with enough power to drive history”. This definition of technological determinism can be related to the process of buying a train ticket as this essay shows

abortion. Jig and the man are at a train station in Barcelona across the Ebro River, drinking beers, and discussing frantically and anxiously whether they should proceed with the abortion. Jig does not agree with having an abortion, although she does not directly say so. The American, on the other hand, thinks that the abortion will be the answer to their problems and tries to convince Jig of that. Hemingway highlights three elements of the story’s setting: the train station, the overbearing heat, and the

Francisco. In these cities, all public buses have bike racks, trains have bicycle storage, cyclists have access to secure parking at metro stations, and safe bikeways provide cyclists with a route to metro stations. All four of these characteristics are needed to foster a bicycle-friendly transit system. However, while New York City excels in certain areas of this criteria, it lacks bike racks on buses and secure bike parking at subway stations. These problems also persist in New York City’s suburbs;

within the former Orsay railway station. Between 1900 through to 1939 it was known as the Gare d’Orsay and was seen as the head of the southwestern French railroad network. However, after 1939, the station was to serve only the suburbs, as its platforms had become too short for the modern, longer trains that appeared with the progressive modernisation of the railroads. In 1975, the Direction des Musées de France had considered installing a new museum within the train station, in which all of the arts from

conversation while trying to figure out what the people in the predicament are talking about. In the story, “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway, the American and the girl use this same tactic while in the cramped bar patio in the train station in Spain. The difficult situation the couple is facing is concealed within Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants.” This can be seen by examining the problem latent within the story, the use vague pronouns, and what consequences that the