... children and the burden that they bring. Another use of symbolism in "Hills Like White Elephants" is during one of the first comments made by Jig says "" They"re lovely hills" [. . .] "They don't look like white elephants."". The hills for Jig represent the child while the hills for the man symbolized the big obstacle the couple had to overcome in their relationship. Later in the story there fields of grain and a river, which symbolizes the ... child and beyond the river are mountains, which suggest that if she keeps the child there will be difficulty between the couple. Yet another sym...

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... born(lines 7-8). This might convey the speaker's feelings of regret to the readers. The "You" used by the speaker can also be seen as very powerful and, therefore, shows the speaker to be serious. Finally, when the speaker proclaims "I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children," she tells the readers that she is being haunted by voices of her unborn children, thus expressing her pain and ... loss(lines 11-12). Another reason why the readers of this poem might believe the speaker is that she directly addresses her unborn in the latter half of the second sta...

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