Hills Like White Elephants

Vocabulary:

1. felt: any matted fabric or material
2. reales: a former silver coin of Spain and Spanish America, the eighth part of a peso

Ernest Hemingway:

• Journalist (Toronto)
• Bad relationship with women (married five times)
• Committed suicide (just like his father...)
• Won the Nobel Litterature Prize in 1953
• Also won the Pulitzer Prize
  
• Lived in Paris and Spain
• The story was based on his own life and the second pregnancy of his first wife
• He had trouble communicating

Plan:

Thesis statement:
Hemingway uses two literary elements: setting and symbolism to explore the issue of "abortion."

"Though the word “abortion” is nowhere in the story, it is doubtlessly understood through Hemingway’s powerful use of two literary elements: setting and symbolism."

P1: topic sentence main idea (supporting evidence (quotation), supporting evidence):
"From the first paragraph the setting immediately introduces the tense atmosphere that will surround the rest of the story."

Setting (Spain, rail station) to describe the tense atmosphere between Jig and the American.

Supporting evidence: "The two lines of rails in the sun."

Supporting evidence: "The openness and loneliness around the railroad station imply that there is no way to back out of the problem at hand and that the man and the girl must address it now."

P2: t.s. :
"When the girl sees the long and white hills she says that “they look like white elephants.”"

Supporting evidence: "As she observes the white hills she foresees elatedly the birth of her baby – something unique like the uncommon white elephant."

Supporting evidence: "Just as the girl appreciates the panorama and its connection to her unborn child the “shadow of a cloud,” which represents the abortion of the fetus, overcomes her happiness"

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