Post Number Three.

Ernest Hemingway’s the hills like white elephants this is an example of fiction retelling a real world situations because many people face the consideration of abortion when dealing with untimely pregnancy. However if one were to look past the basic notion of the abortion problem, one would notice the problem between the two main characters. They have a communication problem they talk to each other but their point of view never gets across to one another. Also the drinking they do, from the moment they arrive at the station they start drinking to occupy their time with anything but conversation. This is a very real world situation trying to avoid talking to somebody or talking about a certain subject.

In our society teen pregnancy is a very hot topic, either keep the child and try to finish school or drop out and find a job. On the other hand the young lady faces the dilemma of abortion, for some that question is easy, no. For some thought it becomes a very real and difficult answer to find.

The couple has a very real communication problem; the man tells her that he “loves her and everything will be back to normal after the operation” all she states that she said yes she will have the operation just to shut him up. The two characters dance around each other in a frenzy of talking but not communicating. Many people face this problem where they talk but may not feel as if anybody is listening. Like teachers sometimes talking to a room full of people and it seems, sometimes’ that nobody is listening but they are taking notes and they are there physically but not mentally.

The situation where the couple starts drinking immediately show that they are not read to talk yet or they were trying to avoid it. This “Elephant in the room” could be about anything in real life that people don’t want to talk about. Such as the death of a loved one, a bad test grade that you don’t want to tell your parents about, or that you are thinking about an abortion because you are actually pregnant but not ready.

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