The man agrees with her statement and even adds that everything would be like before. He also says he knows many people who have found happiness after the operation. The girl sadly agrees with the man’s statement. The man goes on to say that he doesn’t want to make her do but in his opinion it’s for the best. She says that she will do it as long as he loves her and that they stay together after the operation.
Define observation and inference. After careful reading of Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”, it is very clear what it’s purpose is. The story takes place in the Ebro River valley of Spain, where an American man and his female companion Jig are waiting for a train and having drinks discussing “doing it”. Obviously, by “doing it”, they’re referring to whether or not they should have an abortion. At the end of the story, we can only assume that they decide to go through with the abortion, when Jig tells the American male “I don’t care about me.” The man goes and haves a drink by himself and return to his companion.
A round of beer to start, then Anis de Toro (a strong liquor). A set of train tracks runs on each side of the train station. The train that they are waiting for that goes to Madrid will arrive in forty minutes on the other side of the building. In front of them the scene is flat and dry. There are not any trees in sight only two distant hills and the woman refers to them as white elephants.
The short descriptions of setting may not seem very detailed but combined with dialogues they tell us the true meaning of this three and a half page story. There is a couple waiting for the train. The American and his young girlfriend nicknamed Jig are sitting at a table in the shade, waiting for the train, talking and drinking beer. The whole story centres on a conversation over whether the girl should undergo an abortion or not. Although Hemingway never uses the words “abortion“ or “baby“, we can clearly tell that is all the characters are talking about.
“Hills Like White Elephants” is from a collection of short stories “Men Without Women” by Ernest Hemmingway. It was first published in 1927. The story is about a couple waiting for a train at the train station. The male character is referred as “the American” and his female companion as “the girl” and later “Jig”. The girl is pregnant and the man is trying to insist in a very artful way that she must go for an abortion.
The story is set in a bar beside a train station. A woman and an American man sit together at a table discussing something that is unknown to the reader. The couple is enjoying a beer while awaiting their train. The young woman seems disconnected as she looks out over a line of hills and says, "They look like white elephants". The American discounts the young woman’s remark and keeps drinking (Napierkowski, par.
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.
Hemingway portrays both of his characters in several different ways by simply modifying each characters dialect and language use towards each other and when speaking about their surroundings. “’They look like white elephants,’ she said. “I’ve never seen one,” the man drank his beer “No, you wouldn’t have,”’ (223). Formal dialect takes place throughout the story when the young women and young man speak to each other casually or in some cases very sternly. The young couple chats about things like liquor, weather, and hills without any sign of tension or confusion.
For this assignment on gender observation in a public space, I decided to observe the customers of Starbucks. I was meeting a friend at five at the Starbucks by the college conservatory of music and decided to come an hour earlier to observe the differences in how men and women treat their coffee experiences. I noticed that men and women both fidget with their phones when standing by themselves and that women are much more cautious of what they put into their coffee and that women tended to order more ‘girly’, while men ordered the ‘manly’ drinks. My observations of men and women pretty much upheld the stereotypes and standards that society places on each gender. I was sitting close to the table with the sugar, cream and other coffee fixings.
The other side of the train station is green, luscious and fruitful like her womb if she reaches full term and gives birth to her child. The train station in other words is only a stopping point and not Jig’s final destination. When Jig describes the hills as white elephants, the reader understands that she is trying to make light of her situation with her boyfriend. She is trying to make something more interesting and significant than it really is. This clearly shows us how she feels with the lifestyle she is living with her boyfriend when she says, “That’s all we