Lecture On Hills Like White Elephants

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Lecture On Hills Like White Elephants

• Teaching Hills Like White Elephants by staging
  the story

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SUMMARY

• Hills Like White Elephants is one of
  Hemingways best known short stories
  representative of his unique style terse,
  effective, and no nonsense, saying what you mean
  in the fewest and clearest words in a syntax of
  short, simple sentences. But it is also good to
  note that Hemingways style is deliberate and
  polished instead of being natural , as it seems
  to be. The simple conversation between the
  American and the girl, the common depiction of
  the natural surroundings, among other things,
  are highly suggestive and connotative and capable
  of offering layers of undercurrents of meaning.

Timeless Hemingway
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Think about this

• 1.Now you have acted it out ,and it took you only
  5-6 minutes to finish the conversations That is
  to say, what took you several minutes to say in
  class developed over a period of more than half
  hour in the story. Is this significant or not,
  if so , in what ways

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Studying Questions For Group Discussion

• 1. Titles are usually carefully chosen. What is a
  White elephant according to the dictionary
  definition? What does a white elephant
  symbolize in the story? White Elephants
• 2.Is the male character admirable?why or why not
• 3.Is the female character admirable? What does
  she have in her advantage?

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Studying Questions For Group Discussion

• 4.What is the nature of their relationship? Find
  evidence.
• 5. Does the girl change after this incident? Will
  the couple break up? Why or why not?
• 6.Is the girls comment that the hills look like
  white elephants silly or profound?

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