In the short story Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway writes about a male he called the American and a female he called girl in this story. He spoke about how the American and the girl was at a train station having drinks and how they were discussing how they felt about each other. He also spoke about how the girl was pregnant and how the American and the girl was trying to decide was they going to keep the baby or not.
Argumentative Response: Does the girl in the story keep the baby? Does she stay in her relationship with the man? In this story the girl stayed in the relationship with the man. The man told the girl a lot of things to make her feel better while she was trying to make a decision on was they going to keep the baby or not. He told the girl he loved her, he told her he didn’t want her to do anything she didn’t want to do, he told her they both can have everything and of course he mentioned more nice things to her. The girl said some things to him like she didn’t care about herself, if she did it he wouldn’t worry, the mountains look like white elephants and she also said what will they do afterwards. While they were speaking with each the waitress told the girl her train would be there in five minutes and the girl smiled at her. Then the man said he was going to take the bags on the other side of the tracks. The girl said come back and have a drink. The train didn’t come. So he had a drink and was watching other people waiting for the train and he also was waiting on the girl. When he went thru the beaded curtain he seen the girl and she smiled at him. She said I feel fine nothing wrong with me. One of the reasons why I said she kept the baby and stayed with the man is because when he walked through the beaded curtain and saw the girl sitting, she smiled at him and said she was fine. It wasn’t nothing wrong with her. Narrative Response: When have you made a important choice to stay in a relationship or leave a relationship -- OR -- stay or leave a difficult situation? I encourage you to write a scene that shows the moment. Consider using dialogue. When I was younger maybe around twenty-two I had to make an important choice to leave a relationship. I was in a relationship since I was nineteen. I had my own apartment when I was twenty and I let my friend move in with me. I was working at a car rental place full time. My friend was a producer and he had a studio where he use to record individuals. I use to work a lot. When I use to call the studio and speak with my friend all I use to hear in the background was boom boom boom with drums, piano and of course people voices singing. Sometimes it would be a recorder and sometimes I wouldn’t know the difference. It was a time when I thought he was dealing with someone that I didn’t know about (cheating). So we decided no females in the studio unless I knew about it. One day I called and a girl picked the phone. I said hello… someone hung up the phone on me. I was so upset I wasn’t at work I was home fifteen minutes away from the studio. I called back no one answered so I kept paging my friend on his beeper, no call back. I jumped in my car speeded off so fast all I heard was the wind from the windows. I was there probably within five minutes. Once I got there I was calling the studio with my flip phone, paging the pager and bangging on the studio door. No one answered. So I sat in my car for a minute and when I looked up my friend friend was about to go in the studio. He was my friend best friend they was in business together. I was happy to see him. So he said hi Regina and I said hi. As he was opening the door my friend busted out the door and pushed me away from the door. As he was pushing me away I saw someone in the studio. Now one of my friend’s friend pull up and say that the girl in there is for me. So the girl finally came out and I asked the girl was that you who answered the phone. She said yes and that’s when my friend friend got in between us and said she was for me. Then the girl left. I told my friend I didn’t want our relationship no more. I chose to leave that relationship because it wasn’t just that situation it was also other situations that happened before than.
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Julia Thornton
9/29/2017 11:26:29 am
I agree with you about how you think the woman kept the baby. Although it is still kind of unclear, i think there are more hints that she kept the baby instead of aborting it. I also think you did the right thing by leaving that relationship. No one deserves to be cheated on.
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10/3/2017 09:08:17 am
I agree with your decision to leave the relationship you were in order to find something better for yourself. I think it shows your strength as a person.
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Teresa Santos
10/3/2017 09:50:40 am
Hi Regina!
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