Hills Like White Elephants Research Paper
Hills Like White Elephants Earnest Hemingway’s, Hills like White Elephants, is about an American man and his girlfriend and how they feel about their future. They want to be happy and have fun. They want to drink beer and not have a worry in the world. They would like to enjoy themselves. Doesn’t everyone? They face issues though like a baby. His girlfriend is pregnant and she doesn’t know if she wants to keep the baby. People face real world issues like this one every day. Abortion being a very big one that lots of people know about. No one knows what they would do in such a situation because they have never been in something like that. People are either for or against it. Some people are not really worried about it but some are very much
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It could be the drinking. Alcohol can mess with your better judgment. It makes people say what they are really thinking. Like when the American says “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,” (pg.811). He is just saying what is on his mind. His drunk mind that is. We are talking about an unborn baby that he created. There is nothing simple about an abortion operation. They are both drinking and making life decisions which don’t go good together. You are supposed to make the decisions first then after making the right one you have a good time and drink. What does the elephant resemble? We know what an elephant is but I have never seen a white one. An Albino elephant. The white elephant is the unborn baby that she doesn’t know what she wants to do with. I think a white elephant would be kind of cool but for the story makes it seem like no one wants it. So no one wants the baby. That’s why the girlfriend changes her mind a little about the elephant because she is changing her mind about not having the abortion. It’s as if
It could be the drinking. Alcohol can mess with your better judgment. It makes people say what they are really thinking. Like when the American says “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,” (pg.811). He is just saying what is on his mind. His drunk mind that is. We are talking about an unborn baby that he created. There is nothing simple about an abortion operation. They are both drinking and making life decisions which don’t go good together. You are supposed to make the decisions first then after making the right one you have a good time and drink. What does the elephant resemble? We know what an elephant is but I have never seen a white one. An Albino elephant. The white elephant is the unborn baby that she doesn’t know what she wants to do with. I think a white elephant would be kind of cool but for the story makes it seem like no one wants it. So no one wants the baby. That’s why the girlfriend changes her mind a little about the elephant because she is changing her mind about not having the abortion. It’s as if