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Hemingway
Topic Started: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:46 pm (97 Views)
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I'm writing a 2,000 word essay comparing "Hills like white elephants" and "Clean Well Lighted Place" by Hemingway.

If you have read them and have any input at all please feel free to post. I need ideas on more things to compare between the two.

If you haven't read them, you can google em if you want. They are very short and take less than 5 minutes to read.
Edited by Sarge, Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:46 pm.
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Both are entirely centered on dialogue. They are very open ended and provide the reader with very few details. I personally hate Hemingway because his stories are bland; and the message is semi-obvious; I don't find anything I've read of him particularly enlightening.

Most of the action revolves around characters drinking (or abortion), which you could expand on to say that it's indicative of Hemmingway's era, the "roaring twenties." You could also go pretty deeply into his personal life about how he was an alcoholic who eventually committed suicide.
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Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:51 pm
Both are entirely centered on dialogue. They are very open ended and provide the reader with very few details. I personally hate Hemingway because his stories are bland; and the message is semi-obvious; I don't find anything I've read of him particularly enlightening.

Most of the action revolves around characters drinking (or abortion), which you could expand on to say that it's indicative of Hemmingway's era, the "roaring twenties." You could also go pretty deeply into his personal life about how he was an alcoholic who eventually committed suicide.
I could add centered on dialogue in there, thats good... Maybe get 100 words out of that ^_^. And yea I don't particularly like any of his either ;/

I'm not supposed to do any research for this, so adding that he was an alcoholic, etc. wouldn't help. Also it was supposed to take place in Spain or something (hills) and written in like 1930, in which abortion was illegal then. Would give me a lot to talk about.. but I cannot :(
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The "White Hills" poem is about abortion, it gives clues in the text. An "operation" that's "just to let the air in."
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Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:37 pm
The "White Hills" poem is about abortion, it gives clues in the text. An "operation" that's "just to let the air in."
Yea, I'm just saying I don't think I would have known that abortion was illegal at that time in spain without doing research, so I can't write about it being illegal.

The man saying 'It's a simple operation' has a completely new meaning when you are trying to get an illegal abortion done in spain.


Btw, why does letting the air in refer to abortion? I thought of abortion when I read it but I don't know why.
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Just a phrase to make it seem light and not murder.

I'm not sure if it's common or not, but I can't think of any other operation that could resemble "letting the air in."
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Fri Feb 27, 2009 12:25 am
Just a phrase to make it seem light and not murder.

I'm not sure if it's common or not, but I can't think of any other operation that could resemble "letting the air in."
Well I'm almost at the word limit now, thanks for the help :)

Any sort of symbolism in the fact that the woman doesn't speak spanish that you can see?
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American domination? Also, on topic of the woman, her subservience to man; she asks to buy the drink, etc.
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