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Hills Like White Elephants

Ernest Hemingway wrote the work “Hills Like White Elephants�. His story is about abortion although within the text, the word abortion is nowhere to be found. The reason why Ernest Hemingway portrayed abortion the way he did was because in 1927, abortion was something that nobody really talked about. It was a something that would be looked down upon. So he writes “Hills Like White Elephants� with multiple metaphors to mask the idea of abortion. Not one time does the man or the woman say the word “abortion.� The man goes through everything that the girl says in his mind and takes the literal meaning of her words. On the other hand, the girl says almost everything metaphorically. Also the actions of the man and the girl have metaphoric meanings as well.
Earnest Hemingway writes “Hills Like White Elephants� in such a metaphoric way, that it takes a few times to read it and figure out what the topic of discussion is between the guy......

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