Reflecion#2 A unusual literature

Daniel Serrano
English 3104
January, 28 2007


The story “Hills like White Elephant” by Ernest Hemmingway is a rather unusual story or better said an unusual conversation. This story is the first short story I have ever read that could only be understood if read more than two times. The Story it self had an inner meaning which took time to decipher. The story was mostly dialog and very little narration. The short story could only be described as unique and unusual, two word that normally contradict one an other. The short story had many controversial topics like abortion and even statutory rape (depending on the character real age). The story it self can be hard to read so it take a level of education and maturity to understand, But it is still a must read story.

In the other hand this story depicted character could be considered as naïve especially the girl named jig , this character although had doubts of the operation she still managed to go through with it she was rather gullible but that is just my opinion of what happen. In the man case I find him rather undisisive and immoral. I consider that the only reason a person should go through with such a thing or do something that drastic is if the person health or child health is in danger in which this case it wasn’t. The only reason they were going to do what they did was because there relationship or happiness was in jeopardy. In any case I can not judge for I really don’t know the whole sinario of the story it lack detail to determine the reason why they really considered such a thing.

The story has a lot of spaces or part that weren’t clear and might cause some confusion to the reader but it still is interacting. I think the reason why it lack so mush background was because the author created it to make the reader think rather than just read. The story might of being repetitive but like my proffer said it has more topics of which to debate and talk about than that one might of suspect. In conclusion I can say that this short story was a most interesting experience not only for it debates that occurred but reading it as well.