...Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants” there is a controversy at the end of the story, whether or not the couple decides to have the abortion. Through out the story Hemingway uses symbolism to show two different paths the couple may choose to take; the fertile green side or the barren side with the white hills. The paths are two train tracks on either side of the train station. Although Hemingway may leave the ending of the story up to the reader, I think it can be argued that the couple didn’t go through with the abortion. The setting and surroundings of the train station are very important because they symbolize the two paths the couple may take. In the beginning of the story Hemingway explains the setting, “On this side there was no shade and no trees/ The girl was looking off at the line of hills. They were white in the sun and country was brown and dry” (Hemingway 132). This is the side where the couple is sitting as they drink. This side symbolizes abortion because it is so barren, and the white hills are also on that side. The girl states in the story that the white hills look like “white elephants” to her. A white elephant can be symbolized as something unwanted or useless, in this case the baby may be considered a white elephant. On the other side of the train station the scenery is much different; Hemingway explains, “Across, on the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro” (134). This side symbolizes fertility because...
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...There is always two sides to every story ever told, People have been taught to only observe and understand one side of every story. But only observing one side of a story blocks our way of perceiving a event or action taken. There are many examples of how viewing stories from one side can change our perspective on it such as in children’s books, car accidents, and in the kony 2012 project. Every child has grown up reading both nonfiction and fiction childhood stories. Some with animals singing and others with people becoming a hero to save the day. One famous fiction children story is the story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. In most cases the story is told from the pig’s point of view of how the wolf ate two of his brothers and blew down their houses made of straw and wood. The wolf was seen as the antagonist between the two. When reading the book you only got one side of the full story and your perception was the same of the pigs, that the wolf was evil. But only recently have authors published books which tell the story from the wolfs point of view. Which helps you develop your own thoughts on how the event really took place. Based on the wolfs perception of the time of day, how it occurred, and the end result of the story of the three little pigs. In the U.S. there are approximately 6,500,000 car accidents per year, all of which involve two or more people. Based on how the accident happened and if there were any witnesses to the event. Affects rejection...
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...West Side Story: Changing the Musical Film Genre The musical film West Side Story (1961) was greatly successful. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards and receiving ten, this movie rose to the top of everyone’s expectations. It changed the genre of musicals and film elevating the story to a new level where it prospered and flourished. This film did something other films and musicals never did before; taking a classical Shakespearian play, Romeo and Juliet and modernizing it. The musical revised a well-known story, connecting viewers personally to musical. By using the current time period, problems within society, and altering the classic play subtly, the film drastically advanced a memorable and now classic movie/musical. Additionally, West...
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...Analyzing Hemingway Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills like white elephants” at first glance is difficult to understand. It undoubtedly causes most readers to go over it multiple times to grasp exactly what is taking place. The way the story is written is so complex with the 50/50 mixture of traditional storytelling and an abundance of character to character dialogue as well. That’s not the best part; the story’s setting means everything to it. The Train station setting ties in to the plot of the story, the characters behavior, and even the point of view that the story is being told from. The story is about a man and a woman discussing the sensitive subject of abortion. They are at a train station waiting for their train while having this conversation. The man and girl are sitting by other passengers awaiting the train while you the reader are told of their surrounding landscape. On one side it is a dessert-like environment with scorched land and no sign of life in sight. The other side of the train station was a green and healthy environment like what you would expect to see inside a greenhouse. The setting in the story greatly an example of this is the point of view of which the story is told. As mentioned earlier the average reader after reading once may say the author is the narrator of the story there are some lines in the story that mean otherwise though. There are two instances near the beginning that caught my attention. “It’s pretty hot,” the man said...
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...We all know that Romeo and Juliet has countless remakes, but why? Because Romeo and Juliet is considered a classic. Many people of all ages love this play because they can relate to some of the themes, or make connections to the story line. Between the years 1591 and 1596, Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, along with many other plays. Directors have been writing and directing plays and movies that are all based off of Romeo and Juliet, including Twilight and Titanic. West Side Story is a musical that is more modern example of a Romeo and Juliet, because it has the forbidden love, the feud between both sides, and the most of the main characters sacrifice themselves. Evidently, in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo comes off as a smart, passionate,...
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...#3 Amisha Grewal 9TA Laetitia’s mother in the story border, has many different traits, her charater is one that takes the whole story to figure out. At the begging of the story, I discovered that Laetitias mother didn’t want Laetitia to leave, her mother would always back Laetitias reason to leave. “SaltLake City is the gateway to some of the magnificent skiing….” Laetitia said “we have got everything right here” her mother said. I feel as if Mrs. Manyfingers has a big role in the mother’s personality, because, her mother sort of let the thought of Laetitia leaving, after she bragged to Mrs. Manyfingers how well Laetitia was doing. “mother liked to tell Mrs.many fingers, she had not gone floating after some man like a balloon on a string.” Laetitia’s mother is also proud of her ethinsity, she has varipous different times in the short story she proves that for example “there are black feet on the Canadian side and the American side, which side o you come from?” and her mother said “the black foot side.” When laetitias mother was talking about how each star has a story, it brought out her emotional side, or softer side which was excluded...
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... Introduction Bias is the inclination on a particular side without considering the possibility of other alternatives. It results when one has already formed a judgement in his or her mind. People can be biased towards an individual, religion, and race or some actions done by people. These actions may be considered immoral by the society and hence the unfair judgement of one's character even without listening to the view of all sides. Media is a very important tool in the society. It informs people on what is going on. Many people take media especially major media companies to give the absolute truth. The media are also expected to be impartial. However, many cases of media biases have been noted. Media bias can be in some forms. Journalists and news producers may choose to present a particular story leaving out other stories that are more important. Bias may also result when a reporter takes sides and does not consider what the other sides has to say. This paper aims at comparing two articles and show any form of media bias that may exist in reporting the same story. October 19, 2014, The Guardian reported on Ched Evans rape case. The author, Barbara Ellen was very critical of Evans and not a single time did she consider Evans’s side of the story. Evans had been involved in a sexual activity with a 19-year-old lady. The lady later claimed that Evans had raped her. Evans stood by his words...
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... 9/7/13 Thesis: In these two stories we observe some of man’s darker nature. We observe two seemingly normal people with dark sides to each of them and will explain how each one is similar and also very different from one another. I. The protagonist, General Zaroff is the main focus of the essay, because of his darker nature and his motivations. A. At first, General Zaroff comes off as welcoming and kind in nature for taking Rainsford in. He gives Rainsford food, clothing and shelter after being lost at sea. B. The man explains to Rainsford that he has been a hunter his whole life and is good at what he does, but he has grown bored of hunting animals. C. He then comes to conclusion that he hunts man because of their strength, courage, and reason. D. Eventually he then forces Rainsford to participate in the game as Zaroff’s game. E. In the end, Rainsford finds his way back to the house and kills Zaroff, leaving him a s “food for the hounds” II. In the story, “The Child by Tiger”, Dick Prosser is the main character of the story. A. At first the story comes of praising Dick, almost making him seem perfect. He is a “deeply religious man” that was very talented in the things he did, and the Shepperton family believed there was nothing he could not do. B. He seems kind at first willing to help in any way he can with the family. Although, throughout the story they explain that there is something off about him. How...
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...choreography and movement content of West Side Story. You should provide clear examples from the choreographed sections of West Side Story to support your discussion. In 1932 Jerry accompanied his sister into New York and saw her onstage at the Dance Center, Robbins was later invited to join the company after an audition arranged by his sister. The dance centre group comprised of dancers with widely varied backgrounds and individual styles ran by Senia Gluck Sandor and his wife. They were fusing ballet and modern dance in a series of highly theatrical, stylised productions. Attempted to dramatise the political, social and economic struggles of the day. Sandor advised Robbins to study ballet again in which he took the advice and began classes with Ella Daganova. This ballet influence upon Robbins is shown throughout West Side Story remarkably within the Dance at the Gym, the Promenade section. Within the promenade relevé is used precisely in and out of chassés, as well as this, similar to classical ballet, movements are repeated two or three times as Robbins has done with the motif of chassés into the clicking of their fingers followed by the circular knee movement. Furthermore, the way in which Robbins uses non-balletic styled movement such as the knee circles and clicks within the ballet section demonstrates specifically Robbins’ use of Sandor’s training through his use of fussing various styles, jazz and ballet in choreographing West Side Story. Having first taken classes informally...
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...and bring the whole story together. Without the specs the boys would not have the fire. But besides the fact that the specs mean fire is that his specs represent all the good and evil he sees in the boys. Another thing piggy’s specs represent is the good side and bad side of technology; but one of the most important things they represent is Jack and Ralph. Jack and Ralph are the two main characters of the story and the main part of the conflict. Piggy’s specs are symbolism of these two boys in many ways. One way is because jack represents the evil side of the specs and Ralph represents the good side of the specs. Another example of symbolism is that good and evil are very hard to tell apart just like the lenses of piggy’s specs, and goes the same with Jack and Ralph. The first one I am going to talk about is the specs representing Jack the evil side, and Ralph the good side. This is clear in the book because when Jack slaps piggy’s specs off his face and breaks them the good side of the lenses in broken and all that’s is left is the evil lens. It then shows up On The Whole Entire Island because Jack or the evil side begins to take over the island while Ralph’s side is broken down just like the good side of the glasses. The next one I am going to talk about is that Jack and Ralph are very hard to tell apart at first just like the good and evil lenses. In Piggy’s specs you don’t know which side of his specs is the good side and which is the bad side. This is just like at...
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...different takes you in. In the story The other side, by Jacqueline Woodson the theme acceptance is repeatedly shown throughout the story. In this short story a girl name clover is faced with a challenge, Clover lives in a house with a fence on the outside, On one side of the fence there are whites and on the other there is blacks. Clovers mom told her to never cross the fence, meanwhile Clover disobeyed her mom and talked to the girl on the other side of the fence. Clover accepted Annie even though she looked different than her, this shows the theme acceptance. In one example of the theme acceptance, is that Clover is brave....
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...characterizing Atticus. One reason he is an understanding person is because he puts himself in other people's shoes. Atticus tries to understand why the Radley’s are so shy and quiet. He does not comment on how they do not ever come out, he thinks that if they want to come out they will come out. The Radley’s have never bothered Atticus, so he does not bother them. When he thinks about the Radley’s he tries to understand their point of view, maybe they do not want to come out because of the rumors people have created about them. During the process of this court case Atticus is getting a better understanding of how the Radley’s feel. He is starting to understand how it feels to be judged by the townspeople, and...
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...Two Solitudes is far from being a great work of fiction--it can be hokey, preachy, heavy-handed, trite, and dated--but it is both an entertaining human story and a knowing political novel, only slightly marred by MacLennan's over-idealistic nationalism. The Canada that MacLennan presents, a country in which a citizen is either French-Canadian or English-Canadian (or a rare hybrid) never really existed, but the political climate prompted by this illusion is still with us. MacLennan's novel is one of the most sympathetic (and readable) literary chronicles of the tensions and misunderstandings that gave birth to modern Quebec. --Jack Illingworth “Two solitudes”, which was written by Hugh McLennan at 1945, was his most famous novel. The Author, Hugh MacLennan was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 1907. There are about seven novels, travel books and uncountable essays that mediate between the European cultural heritage and American vigor and idealism. “Among his many honors, he won five Governor Generals Awards.” And finally, Hugh MacLennan died in Montreal in 1990. It was a literary allegory for English and French Canadian from 1917 to 1939. The author divided this novel into 4 parts. “It is set during World War I, and a cast of “archetype” characters relay the story, being representations of French Canadians or Catholics or Businessman during this time period.” The novel’s plot was focus on the life of the fictional character named Paul Tallard, who is struggling between the differences...
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...family member you are towards the other members. And when it comes to another important thing in life called “Work”, which one will be the most important one to you? And will you be able to separate those two parts in a proper way? The short story “Father Of The Year” (2012) by Esther Williams, takes the reader into a real-life episode that makes you ask yourself the same kind of questions. In the story we meet the family dad Dan and his wife Jemma, who are on a trip to Los Angeles with their three children: Grace, Ben and Honey. The primary purpose of the journey is for Dan to get a new job. But just as things are starting to progress, some things might be even more important than family. The short story opens in medias res. The writer captures the readers’ interest by describing the opening scene deeply in details. And even though it is only the parents watching the rain, it is still very catchy and interesting. The events throughout the story is generally placed in chronological order except for a few flashbacks that sometimes appear. Small hints of what might happen are occurring some places in the text. An example could be when Jemma does not look at Dan so she avoids getting in an argument. “Jemma didn’t meet his eye. She didn’t want an argument and they both knew she’d waver if she saw the fury in his face” (s8 | l20-22). The ending of the story leads the reader back to the question about Dan and his family. The ending is kind of open because it’s hard to tell if Dan...
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...The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is about the interaction of two lovers and the impact pregnancy has had on their relationship. Hemingway uses objective point of view telling the readers what the characters are saying and doing, but not providing any reason for what they say or do or how they feel about it. The story takes place at a small rail station with tracks on two sides. One rail leads to Madrid and the other Barcelona. The story itself is constructed mostly of dialog between the two main characters, the American and Jig, and descriptions of what each of them sees. Through the dialog of each character and the description of what they see the reader is able to learn the position each character holds on their current situation. Though the topic is never declared it is inferred with statements like “let the air in” and “it is a simple operation” that the couple are going to Madrid for an abortion. The dialog as well as the scenery described by the two characters provides insight into their position on the subject as well as insight into the future of the couple, regardless of the decision that is made in regards to the pregnancy. The opening lines of the story present the conflicting view the two have. The story takes place at a train station in an area that has no shade and is devoid of trees. On the other side is the Ebro valley where the hills are long and white. Here the two sides are juxtaposed: one is represented by a valley, which tends...
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