... Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. In Hemingway's short story, "Hills Like White Elephants," reader discover a female character, Jig, who came to a point of her life, when she has to make a choice, a difficult choice, which will affect her life from now on. Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" explores the ability of people to talk their way back to health and happiness, once ... all come to a point in life when we are forced to deal with the consequences of the choices we have made. The results may be unfavorable, as they are for Jig, but still a decision must be made. Yer...

• Word Count: 1359
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Hills Like White Elephants," by Ernest Hemingway is a short story about an American man and a girl named Jig who are confronted with a difficult issue of whether or not terminate a pregnancy. The main tension within this story is that Jig sees the possibility of keeping her child and having a happy life, while the man fails to see the positive possibilities and works to persuade her ... to go through with the abortion. Hemingway uses ... from all of his stories and novels, leaving readers to sift through the remaining dialogue and bits of narrative on their own. Plenty of clues are provided...

• Word Count: 1455
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School