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Old 05-02-2007, 01:29 PM
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Hills Like White Elephants

Has anyone read this? I'm doing a huge lit crit paper on it, and it's extremely depressing. I absolutely love it, and how Hemingway uses all that symbolism to convey the two feelings between the lovers. It's so incredibly sad though! Is anyone else a fan?
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Old 05-04-2007, 02:35 PM
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I've heard of it, and I love Hemingway.
I think I'll check it out.

I wish my teacher would assign books like that.
He won't even let us read Poe...
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Old 05-04-2007, 03:44 PM
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No Poe? Egads!

I read this awhile back, it is very sad short story. The setting was perfect, and I really felt for the woman. The last couple of lines still stay with me to this day actually.

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Old 05-04-2007, 06:12 PM
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I've heard of it, and I love Hemingway.
I think I'll check it out.

I wish my teacher would assign books like that.
He won't even let us read Poe...
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http://www.has.vcu.edu/eng/webtext/hills/hills.htm

It takes about 5 minutes to read. If you want to know anything specific just ask... I've been writing about it for weeks.
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Old 05-12-2007, 02:05 PM
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Well written little story - I studied it in class as well, but we didn't go very in depth. I like how it never expressly states what their talking about...presented in any other way it would be a pretty run-of-the-mill story, but Hemingway really made it extraordinary.
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Well written little story - I studied it in class as well, but we didn't go very in depth. I like how it never expressly states what their talking about...presented in any other way it would be a pretty run-of-the-mill story, but Hemingway really made it extraordinary.
Good point. If I didn't know it was about abortion, it might have taken a while to figure it out. I mean, you know that it's medical related, but you never get anything direct told to you.
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