White elephant gift exchange

When I hear the words “white elephant,” I think of an albino elephant, or a white elephant gift exchange that you do during holidays with friends and family. However, neither one of these are what this paper will be referring to. The dictionary defines white elephant as “a possession unwanted by the owner, but difficult to dispose of” and “a possession entailing great expense out of proportion to its usefulness or value to the owner.” It deals with something that is both expensive and hard to

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

Ernest Hemingway, the author of “Hills like White Elephants” will leave his readers guessing due to his vague information put into his short story, ¨Hills like White Elephants¨. The understanding of figurative language, sensory details, and the use inferencing skills are needed to interpret what the author is trying to get across. If the short story is analyzed carefully the reader will understand that the couple in the story are deciding whether or not to have an abortion. Although “abortion” is

English is an amazing language that reflects many different cultures. Americans have many popular sayings and figures of speech that, if taken literally, make no logical sense. If you mention the phrases “white elephant,” “spill the beans,” or “to pull someone’s leg,” they make no sense unless you are familiar with the culture. The word “idiom” is used to describe these forms of speech. Idioms are considered to be part of a nation’s culture, and idioms can make learning a foreign language quite

Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants, exemplifies his literary technique of utilizing simple, direct, and often forceful prose to portray complex emotions. (Lamb, pp. 453- 454) On it’s surface, Hills Like White Elephants initially reads as a tense conversation between two tourists waiting for the express train from Barcelona, and only upon closer inspection that one can come to appreciate that Hemingway’s deceptively simple prose has built a dialogue fleshed with unspoken sentiments and

In the story “Hills Like White Elephants” Earnest Hemingway constantly talks about throughout the entirety of the story white elephants and this operation. It is through symbolism that you begin to understand the story better. Just about every movement in this short story has an underlying meaning. Which better help you understand the story better such as the characters’ actions and decisions. For example, the white elephants that are mentioned throughout the story symbolizes the unborn child.

Ernest Hemingway told stories with similar goals, but encrypted these messages in a way that leaves a lot up to the reader, but in a very fascinating and intelligent way. This is no different when it comes to Hemingway’s work “The Hills like White Elephants”. The story is about a man and a woman sitting at a bar waiting for a train. They talk about various light topics until they eventually land on a heavy subject between the two of them. It sounds simple and appears so at first glance, but if the

Have you ever spent hours and hours making and decorating cookies only two days before Christmas? I have because every year on Christmas Eve my mom’s whole side of the family comes to our house for a party. I get to see some cousins that I barely ever get see. We spend the whole day from sunrise to sunset together. Seeing them is amazing because sometimes you don’t realize how much you miss someone until you finally see them again. Every Christmas Eve when we have the party everyone brings an

Ernest Hemingway’s stories are known for their ever interpreting meanings behind them, and “Hills Like White Elephants” does not trail from the rest due to the never mentioned word ‘abortion’. “Hills Like White Elephants,” written by Ernest Hemingway, takes place around World War 1 in Spain, at a train station ("Hills Like White Elephants." 4). An American man and a girl have been discussing the girl’s unspecific operation. It is apparent that the girl feels uneasy about this operation while the

Ernest Hemingway’s stories are known for their ever interpreting meanings behind them, and “Hills Like White Elephants” does not trail from the rest due to the never mentioned word ‘abortion’. “Hills Like White Elephants,” written by Ernest Hemingway, takes place around World War 1 in Spain, at a train station ("Hills Like White Elephants." 4). An American man and a girl have been discussing the girl’s unspecific operation. It is apparent that the girl is perturbed about this operation, while the