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    This document summarizes the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. It discusses the main themes of communication and understanding between two people. The characters are an unnamed American man and his girlfriend, only referred to as "the girl". The story takes place at a train station in Spain as the couple waits for a train, representing a crossroads in their relationship, and debates whether the girl should have an operation. The setting of the hot, desolate valley and train station highlights the uncertainty of their situation. The story uses third person objective point of view to observe the characters' discussion without revealing their inner thoughts.

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    This document summarizes the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. It discusses the main themes of communication and understanding between two people. The characters are an unnamed American man and his girlfriend, only referred to as "the girl". The story takes place at a train station in Spain as the couple waits for a train, representing a crossroads in their relationship, and debates whether the girl should have an operation. The setting of the hot, desolate valley and train station highlights the uncertainty of their situation. The story uses third person objective point of view to observe the characters' discussion without revealing their inner thoughts.

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    This document summarizes the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. It discusses the main themes of communication and understanding between two people. The characters are an unnamed American man and his girlfriend, only referred to as "the girl". The story takes place at a train station in Spain as the couple waits for a train, representing a crossroads in their relationship, and debates whether the girl should have an operation. The setting of the hot, desolate valley and train station highlights the uncertainty of their situation. The story uses third person objective point of view to observe the characters' discussion without revealing their inner thoughts.

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    This document summarizes the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway. It discusses the main themes of communication and understanding between two people. The characters are an unnamed American man and his girlfriend, only referred to as "the girl". The story takes place at a train station in Spain as the couple waits for a train, representing a crossroads in their relationship, and debates whether the girl should have an operation. The setting of the hot, desolate valley and train station highlights the uncertainty of their situation. The story uses third person objective point of view to observe the characters' discussion without revealing their inner thoughts.

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    NAMA : MERI LESTARI

    NPM : A2B015038
    Analysis of Short Story Hills Like White Elephants

    By Ernest Hemingway

    1. Theme :The main theme of "Hills Like White Elephants," written by


    Ernest Hemingway, is the difference between talking and
    communicating. The two main characters do not listen or take the time
    to understand each other. Hills Like White Elephants"is a rich study in
    human communication. Intense, focused, and concentrated, the story
    depicts a couple at a crisis point in their relationship. They struggle, in
    public, to communicate their opposing views on the course their
    relationship should take. Because the story ends without a clear
    resolution, we will never know how or if they manage to find common
    ground. It is significant that the story takes place in Spain, but is
    written in English. A close reading of the text reveals all kinds of
    translation games, which both disorient the reader and comment on
    communication in the story.
    2. Characters : the man and the girl. The American is The male
    protagonist of the story. The American never reveals his name, nor
    does the girl ever directly address him by name. He is determined to
    convince the girl to have the operation, but tries to appear as though
    he doesnt care what she does. He remains disconnected from his
    surroundings, not really understanding or even listening to what the
    girl has to say.
    The Girl is The female protagonist of the story. The American calls the
    girl Jig at one point in the story, but never mentions her real name.
    Unlike the American, the girl is less sure of what she wants and
    appears reluctant to have the operation in question. She alternates
    between wanting to talk about the operation and wanting to avoid the
    topic altogether.
    3. Plot : Hills Like White Elephants opens with a long description
    of the storys setting in a train station surrounded by hills, fields, and
    trees in a valley in Spain. A man known simply as the American and his
    girlfriend sit at a table outside the station, waiting for a train to Madrid.
    4. Setting : Place : Hemingway sets Hills Like White Elephants
    at a train station to highlight the fact that the relationship between the
    American man and the girl is at a crossroads. Planted in the middle of a
    desolate valley, the station isn't a final destination but merely a
    stopping point between Barcelona and Madrid.
    Time: in the mid day refers to It is hot, and the man orders two beers.
    5. Point of view: Third Person (Objective) The third-person narrator takes
    the fly-on-the-wall technique to extremes in "Hills Like White
    Elephants." We can see both the journalist and the storyteller in
    Hemingway working together to construct the story.

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