In this blog post I will be talking about the Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway) short story. The story is about a couple in a train station struggling to come to an agreement on whether the wife should get an abortion or not. They do this all while sipping on absinthe. I think yes, the girl most likely did keep the baby but the husband I’m pretty sure she didn't keep him. I say that she kept the baby because of how the whole conversation she is defending herself and the baby. “Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the things we've waited so long for, like absinthe.” In this quote, in a way she is defending the baby like how he’s waited for a long time to have this abortion and the absinthe. I say that the girl probably doesn't stay with her partner because of how it seems like their relationship is hanging on by a string. Especially since he wants her to get abortion even though we all know that she wants to keep the baby. I also believe this baby he almost makes the girl scream based on how insistent he is with making her have an abortion. Its sad too that if he didn't want her to get an abortion I'm the sure the baby would have improved their relationship and brought them closer together. That's why I think that she most likely kept the baby and probably didn't stay in a relationship with that man for much longer after that. I made an important choice to leave a difficult situation when I chose to leave this group of friends that i had been associated with through my passion for cars because i learned how they were talking behind my back about things they didn't like about me and my car. It started with just plain old teasing between all of us on each other and their car. Until over time they started to talk shit about me when i wasn't with them or at a car meet they were at. I had to hear this from one of my closer friends because they had talked bad about me in front of him mistakenly. So instead of making a whole predicament over these punks I chose to just block all of them on social media and never talk to them again. And because of these guys i wasn't able to go to my favorite local car meets anymore and had to go to different ones. The only i wished i had done was to maybe talk back at them or shame them for bullying over our facebook group for the entire group of people that go to these car meets. Warning them about these douche bags that call themselves car guys.
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Vince Beggarly
9/28/2017 06:01:46 am
I agree that their relationship appears to be almost at an end within the story, but what clues within the text reveal this to the reader? Do you think the whole idea of her getting the abortion is the reason behind their failing relationship?
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9/28/2017 06:22:33 am
I share the idea that she kept the baby and left the husband. To me, I think she realized half way through the story to keep the baby. There is a scene of a shadow of a cloud moving across grain and revealing a river, which I think is when the woman realized to keep her baby. Also, she begins to retort back to her partner towards the end of the story. By her retorting back, I think it is when she decided she does not want to be with him anymore.
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Gabi D'Ambrosio
10/2/2017 01:29:37 pm
I do believe that the man pushing the abortion may have made the women not want to stay with him.
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