“Hills Like White Elephants” is a dialog between a man a woman. They are talking, but they are not listening to each other. The topic of their conversation is about making the choice of having an abortion or marriage. Both of these choices are extreme measurements that the man is not willing to take. Both the American man and the girl drink alcohol throughout their conversation to avoid each other and the problems with their relationship. They start drinking large beers the moment they arrive
In Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway writes about a male and female couple having an in depth conversation on rather to have an abortion or not. Specifically, the American in the story does not really care what way his girlfriend decides. Although he keeps on trying to persuade her into getting the abortion, he does not have a clue what she wants. As the author himself self puts it, “if you don’t want to you don’t have to. But I know it’s perfectly simple. (Hemingway)” In sum, then, the
Elephants are popularly used in America in entertainment and exhibitions, such as circuses and zoos. In the 2012 article, “No More Curtain Call for Elephants,” the LA Times’ editorial board argues that elephants should be protected from use in traveling shows and exhibitions in Los Angeles through the passing of a measure to prevent this use. This article was published in the Los Angeles Times. Through the use of persuasive strategies such as pathos and the use of examples, the authors build a
2. Literal Language According to Leech as cited by Love (1983) there are seven types of meaning in semantics, namely conceptual or denotative meaning, connotative meaning, social meaning, affective meaning, reflected meaning, collocative meaning, and thematic meaning. Here, the researcher analyses two kinds of meaning which are denotative meaning and connotative meaning. Denotation in denotative meaning deals with the literal referential aspects of word meaning (Jay, 2003: 314). Besides, connotation