?Hills Like White Elephants? is a story that portrayed many symbols. White Elephants have always been gifts that are unwanted. Hemingway in this selection uses these white elephants to describe abortion through one couples eyes. He uses different items and views that happen around this couple to symbolically describe abortion. People who have white elephant parties, wrap gifts that they do not want in their house anymore and give them away as a gift for someone else. Jig?s unborn child, in this story, is like a white elephant. The child has not even had the chance to enter the world and the child?s father does not want it to. ?The warm wind blew the bead curtain against the table.? This ?wind? that Hemingway speaks about defines what the meaning of abortion is. He also points out that, ?It?s really not anything. It?s just to let the air in.? He even goes on to say that, ?they just let the air in and then it?s perfectly natural.? Jig is not quick to defend herself, but she finally speaks up. She keeps staring out through the bamboo curtain. The wind through this curtain illustrates the sweet past In this selection Hemingway talks about the different kind of drinks available.
The man says it is ?a drink,? but to Jig it has a licorice taste. She explains it as ?all things you?ve waited so long for, like absinthe.? This is explaining that these ?drinks? are more than just drinks to her. Jig has been conveyed the sweet promise of bearing a child and the bitter termination of birthing. This is by the moving beaded curtain, the breeze, ?The two heavy bags? implies that the bags are for the mother and child. It never says in the story that it is their bags, referring to the man and woman. Still, the author is conveying what an abortion is by saying ?the air get lets in? through this curtain when the man walks back outside. Jig says that she and her child are ?fine? after this ?awfully simple operation.? When the man walks ?out through the bead curtain,? this implies that he is The man and Jig argue throughout the selection. His way of playing of the argument is ?oh, cut it out,? but Jig replied, ?you started it.? Jig brings up many issues when she states, ?nothing with me.? The man refers to the unborn child as an ?only thing? and Jig refers to the child as ?everything.? Jig?s ?smile? shows that she understands that hills can be like white elephants and lovers too. Hemingway implied that ?nothing,? aborted from Jig?s world, in this story, is the white elephant. Hemingway portrays that to Jig the unborn child within her is as the ?lovely hills.? These hills are not wanted around but yet they are precious in Jig?s eyes.
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Throughout the course of history, the acquisition and retention of both power and wealth have been the greatest priorities of mankind, that which has been surpassed by no other. However unwarranted or immoral it may seem, the power of the greatest nations of the world has always been drawn from the rape, pillage, and plunder of foreign lands deemed to be weaker and thus obsolete. Without the ...
