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Hills Like White Elephants Rhetorical Analysis

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“Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway” is about a young couple with very bad communication skills debating over a problematic issue or decision for abortion. The main focus is of this big decision that Jig has to make. In the conversation readers can see that the two individuals are on the edge in their relationship. The communication between the two is very one sided and argumentative with little to no progress. The narrator demonstrates the emotional emptiness between the two characters while a threat of a decision intervenes on their relationship affecting how it will change and what the future will hold for them. Throughout the conversation Jig does not express her true feelings towards the situation and instead becomes theatrical. Jig is clearly uncomfortable with the topic at hand possibly because she doesn’t know what to do herself. Her boyfriend isn’t of much help with her figuring things out. I believe that Jig wants to fix her relationship and is willing to do whatever so desperately she needs to. The operation of having an abortion is a huge interference on her relationship and could possibly destroy it. Jig starts to become passive aggressive while saying,” If I do it you …show more content…

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