Hills Like White Elephants is from a collection of short stories Men Without Women by Ernest Hemmingway It was first published in 1927 The story is about a couple waiting for a train at the train station The male character is referred as the American and his female companion as the girl and later Jig The girl is pregnant and the man is trying to insist in a very artful way that she must go for an abortion The setting is in the valley of the Ebro in Spain At one side there are hills and the scen
Could you imagine a world where firefighters start fires rather than putting them out What if you lived in a society where the people do not read books enjoy nature spend time by themselves think independently or have meaningful conversations Instead they watch excessive amounts of TV on wall size sets drive super fast and listen to the radio on seashell sets attached to their ears This is Guy Montags strange world presented in the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury In Fahrenheit 451 Guy Mont
A Streetcar Named Desire In A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche is driven by her desire for sexual passion This desire consequently leads to Blanche losing her mind and the inability to live in the ugly reality of her life In this play Tennessee Williams implies that a life driven by desire is self destructive and Blanches early demise is the outcome of this desire In A Streetcar Named Desire beauty is represented by desire and fantasy while ugliness is represented by death and reality These are s
Its like 1984 all over again Smith yelled a voice from the telescreen 6079 Smith W Hands out of pockets in the cells 1984 In 1948 Eric Blair better known as George Orwell wrote a book with chilling insights into the future 1984 This book did quite a number on the literate world People who have read this book have had mixed reactions from fear to hatred of our governmental system However 1984 came and went and no signs of the tales told in the book were realized by the mass population There is n
In John Knowles novel A Separate Peace Leper acts a nonconformist because of the things he likes to do how he keeps to himself and his views on the war As the war looms in on the boys Leper holds very different views on the war Instead of spending time with Gene Finny Brinker and the rest of the group Leper chooses to seclude himself in his own world Compared to what the group likes to do Leper involve himself in many different activities making him stick out as an oddball Lepers interests make
English 1102 January 17 2008 Abner Snopes a Flat but Complex Character Abner Snopes in William Faulkners Barn Burning is a flat yet amazingly complex and intense character 160 To speak of him as flat is to borrow E M Forsters term Roberts and Jacobs 157 and also to note that in this story this character does not change or grow Yet the force of the characterization the potency and impact of it go beyond what one usually expects to find in a flat character In fact Faulkner could have gotten away
Hills Like White Elephants Symbolism to Portray Theme In Ernest Hemingways Hills Like White Elephants the girl Jig and the American man are discussing the possibility of Jig getting an abortion Hemingway uses Hills as a pregnant womans stomach and the White Elephants as unwanted gifts The girl decides not to go through with the abortion in this story This is shown through the choices they have to choose from their feelings about the abortion and the reactions of the American man in the end Jig
Ayn Rands book Anthem contains many different settings in which Equality 7 2521 lives works and writes in his journal They consist of the City the Tunnel and the Uncharted Forrest they each impact the meaning of the story by providing a background and a visual in which the life of Equality 7 2521 takes place The City is home to Equality and his brothers There are many houses in which they live such as the Home of the Street Sweepers The house holds one hundred beds with white sheets and blanket
Antigone Human Law VS Divine Law Through Antigone Anouilh and Sophocles explore the idea of Human Law VS Divine Law and how they affect the characters directly and indirectly throughout the play Both authors express this through the way the characters experience and express their isolation In both Anouilhs and Sophocles versions of Antigone the beliefs of Divine Law and Human Law directly lead characters to emotional isolation Antigone believes in Divine Law throughout the entire play which lea
Heroism Portrayed in Beowulf and The Dream of the Rood In the poem Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney we encounter the hero Beowulf A hero is one who places himself or herself at great risk while performing acts of courage Not only is Beowulf a hero because of his physical strength but also because of this rather than basking in the resulting glory of his battles and triumph he returns the glory to God In my estimation he is close to the ultimate hero a man who put his life on the line in taki