In the beginning there was no sun, no moon, no people. In the beginning there were no animals, no plants. Only the sea. The sea was the Mother. The Mother was not people, she was not anything.
Although Hemingway never uses the words “abortion“ or “baby“, we can clearly tell that is all the characters are talking about. One of the first things readers and Jig notice are the hills surrounding the valley. She seems to be fascinated by them and their white colour reminds her of white elephants. The man obviously does not to care about the landscape, he keeps going back to the topic of abortion, which Jig does neither want to talk about, nor think of. “The girl looked across at the hills on the dry side of the valley and the man looked at her and at the table“ (90).
Hemingway shows the reader almost instantly that he is a man, at least in the sense of his knowledge and sense of control. The man doesn’t seem to care about Jig or the unborn child but instead he seems to care about what happens to himself. “I’ll love it. I love it now but I just can’t think about it. You know how I get when I worry,” as if to make her understand his actions through a simple guilt of him worrying (59, Hemingway).
We did not have a huge stadium like most school. There was no huge loft of bleachers or towing lights around the field. There was no fancy scorers box or intercom system or even a sprinkler system. You would not see a huge score board with a Pepsi or Coke logo on like at other schools. We did not even a concession stand.
Many electric vehicle owners know and have acknowledge that there are few electric stations. This keeps most electric vehicles a city vehicle not a travel option since it can leave you stranded. Another disadvantage, according Energy (2015), the electric vehicles are super quiet. This makes the electric vehicle less noticeable to pedestrians and bicyclist. Electric vehicles are silent because there is no combustion engine therefore no need for an exhaust.
The male character is dominant, defensive and hypocritical and the female character is pendent and is incapable of voting for her decision. In the story the man persistently tells her to abort the child but never uses the word abortion. He keeps on giving more like hypnotic suggestions that she must abort the child because it’s a very simple operation. He is hypocritical because he keeps on saying – “But I don’t want you to do if you didn’t want to”. He says that he doesn’t need a baby in their life - “That’s the only thing that bothers us.
Earnest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” is a story of a verbal battle and contest of wills between two characters. The reader is asked to decipher much of the information in the story through the use of symbolism and imagery. The reader must also come to a conclusion as to how the character chooses in the end. Beginning with the title “Hills like White Elephants” and through further description of the terrain surrounding the couple, the reader can sense the internal struggle between the two characters over the issue of whether Jig will agree to have an abortion. The story is set in a bar beside a train station.
There are not any trees in sight only two distant hills and the woman refers to them as white elephants. They sip on their drinks and through conversation you can conclude that the woman and the man are at odds over her pregnancy. She wants to have the baby, but the man does not. He tries to sway her decision by telling her that the abortion process is simple. “Awfully simple and not really anything.” He wants to keep the lifestyle that they have on track.
Jig is referred to as a girl, but she is in fact a young woman faced with the problem many young women find themselves faced with. She is pregnant and in a relationship with a man who is superficial and not interested in pursuing a deep and meaningful life together with her. Hemingway used the hills to represent the ups and downs of life. Just when we get to the top of one, we realize that we have to climb another. I think that Jig saw her pregnancy and the challenges that it would bring as wonderful.
Thesis: • Hemingway uses numerous symbols, such as white elephants, the hills, the valley, how simple the operation is, the luggage, and time, in order to demonstrate the huge commitment Jig and the Man must make about the “operation”/abortion. Intro: include the title, and the author • The story, Hills Like White Elephants, describes an experience between a man and a girl named Jig, in the valley of Ebro at a train station. While waiting for the train, the man and Jig discuss numerous things, what should they drink, what the hills look like, but the most important topic they discuss is about a certain “operation”. Hemingway, the author of the story, uses numerous symbols in the story to help the reader better understand the huge dilemma this “operation” will or may cause to both the man and Jig. Section 1: • Topic Sentence: o After only reading the title and the first paragraph, the idea that both the hills and white elephants appear to be symbolizing a certain choice involving something precious yet burdensome.