... The technique is used to emphasize the importance of ideas by leaving out important details of the story and replacing them with symbols. In some cases the reader may never find or understand the symbols so it might be hard to understand the story. The story Hills Like White Elephants contains a lot of symbolism ... through communication problems in a relationship and the use of symbolism. The story mentions a man and a woman talking about hills and white elephants but the symbols identify abortion. Ernest Hemingway will always be known for what he leaves out of stories and not for what h...

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... bull fighters, crippled soldiers, hunters of wild animals, and deep sea fisherman. Hemingway portrayed his characters as heroes, but they all in someway dealt with the perception of death. Hemingway himself said, "My favorite characters are men who deal in death and accept its risks". To understand why Hemingway ... just to do the U.S. Navy a favor, showed that Hemingway was on a breach to die. In Hemingway's writings about death he resorts to using vast symbols rather than metaphors. As Baker says, "A world is not wholly without values when it recognizes esthetic values. The writer, lik...

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