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    <title>Hills Like White Elephants Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Anyone reading a Hemingway short story must be willing to work because...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Anyone reading a Hemingway short story must be willing to work because most of the story will be found lying below the surface details. As a realist, Hemingway created characters, placed them in situations, and told us what they said and did, but he did not tell us much about how they felt, and he told us nothing about how we are supposed to feel. His stories are not full of imagery to heighten emotion or suggest drama. As a former newspaper...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:13:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why is it that Hemingway's literary situations are more dramatic than...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hills-like/q-and-a/why-that-hemingway-situations-more-dramtic-then-89851</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why is it that Hemingway's literary situations are more dramatic than his talk, as in "Hills Like White Elephants"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:14:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ritamccaffrey,
This story is particularly timely in view of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ritamccaffrey,
This story is particularly timely in view of the controversy that has developed in the last decades over the issue of abortion. Students have many fixed ideas: some for, some against. There are other issues, of course.
An important one is the apparently developing isolation between the two major characters. Another is the way in which Hemingway, stylistically, is able to make the identities of the speakers clear, even though...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:18:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This question has been previously asked and answered. Please see the...]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:16:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the significance of the phrase "White Elephants"?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hills-like/q-and-a/what-significance-phrase-white-elephants-88889</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the significance of the phrase "White Elephants"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:44:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what the contarast and conflicts in Sanatorium story  and why it's...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hills-like/q-and-a/what-contarast-conflicts-sanatorium-story-why-its-88617</link>
        <description><![CDATA[what the contarast and conflicts in Sanatorium story  and why it's intereptive story]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:27:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["Hills Like White Elephants" explain the character's perpective on the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["Hills Like White Elephants" explain the character's perpective on the changes in modern culture (travel, sex,medicine)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 06:56:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In “Hills Like White Elephants” the American man, and the woman,...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hills-like/q-and-a/how-would-you-describe-characters-77127</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In “Hills Like White Elephants” the American man, and the woman, “Jig,” are a couple sitting outside a café’ drinking beer while they await a train.  These characters are discussing a pregnancy and an abortion.  The relationship is very unstable at the moment because the couple is unable to connect with each other.  Jig seems to want to have the baby but the man wants her to have an abortion.  He is very selfish and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:01:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How would you describe the characters in "Hills Like White Elephants"?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hills-like/q-and-a/how-would-you-describe-characters-77127</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How would you describe the characters in "Hills Like White Elephants"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:12:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Because this title contains the word "like," it is technically a simile....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Because this title contains the word "like," it is technically a simile. Any comparison using like or as qualifies as a simile. On a deeper level, however, the "white elephants" within the title are actually symbols.
They represent anything that is not wanted, be that a pregnancy, a child, or something else entirely. Inasmuch as the white elephants represent an abstract concept, they qualify as symbols: one concrete thing standing for...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 3 Apr 2009 08:38:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The expression itself, "hills like white elephants," is actually a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The expression itself, "hills like white elephants," is actually a simile, not a metaphor, since it uses "like." White elephants are used to refer to something unwanted or undesired. In this context, they are also symbolic in the story of her undesired pregnancy. The story also develops the relationship between the man and the woman. She isn't convinced that she wants to have the abortion, and he wants her to have it, and pressures her to have...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 3 Apr 2009 06:16:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is the title "Hills Like White Elephants" symbolism or a metaphor?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is the title "Hills Like White Elephants" symbolism or a metaphor?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 3 Apr 2009 03:19:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["White elephant" is an old expression that something is unwanted or...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hills-like/q-and-a/why-use-white-elephants-not-something-else-short-75053</link>
        <description><![CDATA["White elephant" is an old expression that something is unwanted or junk. In the story, the hills literally look like white elephants. Additionally, the author expects the reader to understand that the true "white elephant" is the unborn baby that the man wants Jig to get rid of. The web site phrases.org.uk defines "white elephant" as "a burdensome possession; creating more trouble than it is worth." That certainly describes the man's feelings...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:02:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Hemingway use white elephants and not something else in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does Hemingway use white elephants and not something else in the short story "Hills Like White Elephants"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:56:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[hi can anyone here guide me on how to study a story and get prepared for...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>hi can anyone here guide me on how to study a story and get prepared for the exams , i just still find difficlties on that and it depresses me so</p>]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:04:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You might also wish to check out the following free guides offered by...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hills-like/q-and-a/write-an-eassy-hill-like-white-elephants-73371</link>
        <description><![CDATA[You might also wish to check out the following free guides offered by eNotes:
How to Write a Character Analysis
How to Write an Introduction]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:48:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It appears that you have been given a choice of elements to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It appears that you have been given a choice of elements to analyze. So, for instance, regarding style-- Hemingway's story has long been used as an example of symbolic literature.  In addition to this stylistic tool, another that you can discuss is the use of double images to convey the ambivalence of decision that the young man and woman have regarding her having an abortion.
If you wish to deal with theme, perhaps you can examine one that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:46:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How can I write an eassy on "Hills Like White Elephants"?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/hills-like/q-and-a/write-an-eassy-hill-like-white-elephants-73371</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How can I write an eassy on "Hills Like White Elephants"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:56:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It is certainly never overtly stated in the text, but it is implied...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is certainly never overtly stated in the text, but it is implied through context clues, particularly the line in which the American explains to Jig that the operation is simple because "it's just to let the air in." Hemingway told Robert McAlmon, his first publisher the story of woman he knew who had had an abortion, and she described the procedure as the doctor simply letting air in and then it was over.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:23:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["Hills Like White Elephants" reading exercise]]></title>
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