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Myself as a writer, I have written many papers, some really good and some not so good. Since high school I must have written enough papers to add up to a book. I like to think that my papers have improved over the years and have slowly gotten better.
As for literature, reading it is just fine and my ability to read literature has improved as well. However my ability to interpret the meanings of the author and transition them into my own ideas needs improvement. I can get the basic stuff but the deeper meanings I still have trouble with.
As for my writing process I follow the process but there is room for improvement. I write drafts and edit them but the intensity and focus that I put towards them needs a lot of improvement. I think it maybe because I have never liked writing and I have trouble expressing myself through writing. I can imagine that a person who is good at writing enjoys doing it, at least to some extent. I however never really liked it, which is probably why I need to improve my writing skills. My skills at writing are improving thought it is a lot easier writing now than it was in high school even though the topics may be harder.
The thing I think I need to improve on most is my editing skills. Catching my own mistakes and changing and rearranging my writing to make it more coherent and so that it makes better sense. I have a stubborn and bad habit of once I am finished with a paper it is done a very little is needed to be done to it. I guess that is also a thing I need to improve on is time management. I simply just need to spend more time working on the writing.
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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