Hemingway’s minimalistic style for the ambiguity in this story. How is the reader forced to make inferences? In “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, the author tells of a girl and a man contemplating abortion. However, Hemingway never states this literally, and he refers to the abortion as the “operation.” The two characters argue over this issue for the entire story without ever mentioning the topic of conversation. Though the story is only a few pages long, Hemingway concisely conveys
Introduction In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Chairman Mao initiated the One Child Policy for the sole purpose of lowering the population of China. Over 45 years have passed since the law was enforced. The One Child Policy has brought a gender imbalance in the Chinese population. After the many years of the enforcement of this Policy, China has started to realize just how much of an imbalanced gender ratio there is now. The One Child Policy has destroyed the gender balance of the population in
Gwendolyn Brooks was an African American poet born on, “June 17th, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas” (“Gwendolyn Brooks”). Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in Chicago, Illinois with her mother and her brother. In her writing career she often sought inspiration and constructive criticism from Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson. Johnson stated that, “she was indeed talented, but needed to acquaint with more modern poets” (“Gwendolyn Brooks Biography”). Brooks was the first, “black author to win the Pulitzer
The hills descriptions are symbolic of the good or bad choices the couple must decide. But the choices are different in each character’s eyes. In the man’s eyes, this abortion is the only choice for them to have a future. He feels it is just an easy operation and it is not really anything important. In the women’s eyes, the abortion of the pregnancy, is not a choice and if she doesn’t follow through it, she will not have the love of the man anymore. The dry barrenness of the hills seems to be symbolic
Seventy seven cents. That trivial sum is the amount of money a woman makes for every one dollar that a man makes in the United States (“Women in the Labor Force”). To this day, women are fighting for equality with men. However, their current burden is softened due to the “f word”, or feminism, and the work done by the women of the 1960s. This work brought about the second wave feminism that began in the early 1960s and continued into the late 1980s. Many times when people hear about this era they
Throughout the course of the semester I will be reading and analyzing the poem “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks. The subject of the poem is abortions, and it shows the many conflicts, emotions and decisions that are a part of the processing of a woman aborting her child. The meaning that transcends through this poem, is that a woman can be a mother without fully having a child. Among the many ways a New Critic could analyze this text to explain its meaning, the two most important of them are the
the traditional family structure slightly. Upon learning that she is pregnant. Ruth considers aborting the fetus. This is notable because abortion was looked down upon in 1950s American society, as women were expected to have children and carry the pregnancy to term. As a result of this stigma, as well as laws against the practice, “about a million illegal abortions a year were performed in the U.S” (Boston Women’s Health Book Collective). Despite not being as radical a feminist as Beneatha, Ruth still
individuality can come together as one. The strength of each family members, including their weaknesses shows characters of how life is still remaining the same as today’s families. The struggle of generational conflict over ideas, woman’s role and about abortions still exist today. The ideal of being compared to what society call social can make one, insane. Anyone’s ideas about how life can because confusion, chaos, lost within themselves, yet happiness can be also be a mixture of mix feelings as well of
Jig, as hinted by her dialogue, wants to keep the baby and is denying to have the procedure for an abortion done. However, the man wants only a bed partner with ‘no strings attached.’ By holding the two strings of beads, Jig symbolizes her want to keep ‘strings attached.’ She yearns for both him and the baby. However, her plea seems unreasonable to him
He subtly bounces around thesubject of abortion, just as Jig and the American do. His technique mimics that of a storyteller, but lacks the tell-all factor that comes along with story telling. The narrator’s descriptions leave room for interpretation and tend to simplify things that the reader