Short Story Review

1121-5436 Short Story review

here is the document we drafted in class.  Feel free to reply with additional entries to add to the information in the document.

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hills like a white elephants

The story was good, I saw it was the characters were going around in circles with their conversation about doing it or not doing it. The girl was telling him to stop talking because she didnt want to be bothered with him she jus wanted to drink her beer. She kept talking about how the clouds look like elephants.

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In the story what is the woman and the man talking/discussing.

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Hills Like White Elephants

This story is about a mana and a women.  They are waiting at a train stationi becauae the women is going somewhere.  they begin talking about the views and curtains, which leads to a deeper conversation. I am not quite sure what they are discussing, but the men keeps insisting if she does not want to she does not have to do it.  The women asked him to stop talking.  he goes to bring her luggage to where the train is and comes back.  when he comes back she says she is fine.  i am a little confused, i am not entirely sure why is taking the trip and where she is going.

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“Hills like White Elephants” Response

I’ve read alot of stories, but that one was just…strange. On the surface, the premise seemed simple: a man and a woman sitting down, having beer and waiting for a train – but as they talk, I could’nt shake the feeling that there was more to it then was revealed in the story. There was just something “odd” about thier conversation, it was as if they were planning something, something huge, something radical, the way they talked about it, with a mixed of excitement and fear. It felt like the I was reading the prolouge of a novel: not enough to know whats happening, but enough to know that, whatever it is, has to be interesting.

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Hills Like White Elephants Response

The story “Hills Like White Elephants”, takes place at train station in the Elbo River Valley. In the story, a man and a girl are waiting for a train to arrive that went to Madrid. While they were waiting for the train, they decided to enter a bar and have a few beers. They started conversating about the things at the station such as the curtain of beads and the hills around the station that the girl described as white elephants. Later, there conversation started to turn into an arguement or a disagreement they had with their own personal issues. At the end, the train comes and the girl smiles at the man, and she’s fine (meaning that everything was still fine between them).

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Hills Like White Elephants

The story is about a man and a girl waiting for the train to Madrid.  The two of them sits down by the store located next to the train station and are drinking beer till the train arrives.  The girl mentions that the hills look like white elephants but the man disagrees.  Then they start to talk about this simple operation that the girl will be having in Madrid.  As they converse, the girl is angry at the man and tells him to stop talking.  Then the train is about to come and the man gets up to move the baggage and comes back and asks if the girl is okay. The girl responds by saying that she’s fine.

I did not quite understand what this story was about so I searched for detailed summary of this story and found out that the girl and the man were couples and the girl was pregnant.  They assume that the operation is abortion and they are on their way to have the operation in Madrid. I did not know why the play was titled “Hills Like White Elephants” so I looked it up and found out that the hills made the girl foresee the birth of the baby and the color white represented the innocence and purity of the unborn baby.

References

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/990496/ernest_hemingways_hills_like_white.html

http://www.gummyprint.com/blog/hills-like-white-elephants-literary-analysis/

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Hills like White Elephants

The story “Hills like White Elephants” is about two people who were waiting on the express train to Barcelona to arrive. while waiting on the train they decided to drink beers and just relax and observe the area that they were in. the sun was very hot and the country was brown and dry. they observed the hills literally looking like white elephants. they later discussed personal issues and who the beer tastes while waiting for the train.

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Hemingway’s Theory of Omission or Iceberg Theory

In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway’s nonfiction book on bullfighting, he describes his “theory of omission” or “iceberg principle”:

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them.  The dignity of movement of the iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.   The writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.”

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“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway

If you want to read “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway but don’t have your text book nearby, you can find it here.

Be sure to write your reading response to the story!

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