Hills Like White Elephants: Poem Analysis

1. Charles

Characters

• Charles- He is a little boy in Laurie’s kindergarten class. He is very bad and gets into a lot of trouble most days in school. For example he hit’s teachers and punches kids in the stomach.

• . Laurie- He is a young boy who just started kindergarten. He always comedy home and tells his parents about Charles and the troubling adventures he perfumed for the day. Laurie himself seems to be very rude, thought the story he disrespects his parents for example he calls his father dumb.

• Mom- she is the mother of Laurie. She is razing another child who is Laurie’s baby-sister. I think because she has another baby to take care of she is stressed and fails to realize Laurie’s behavior.

• Dad- He is Laurie’s father. I believe

Poem inspired by Hills Like White Elephants

He said I was the only one

I believed him- I gave him my love

At that moment he promised me the moon the stars and the sun.

Weeks later he begged me to fix what has been done

I realized to keep him I must do it

And wish he will love me… at least in the long run

But secretly I knew

He would always break his promise of the moon, the stars and the sun.

5. Slow Dancing in a Burning Room-John Mayer

It 's not a silly little moment,

It 's not the storm before the calm.

This is the deep and dying breath of

This love that we 've been working on.

Can’t seem to hold you like I want to

So I can feel you in my arms.

Nobody’s gonna come and save you,

We pulled too many false alarms.

We 're going

Cady entered a new culture. She is from South Africa, her family moved to the United States and she is going to start high school. When she started school it was a very big culture shock. Everything was different; there were new social norm Cady needed to follow to fit in. In Cady 's high school, there was a group of girls called the Plastics-they were rich and beautiful. The Plastics on talked to select people, all the guys wanted to date them and all the girls wanted to be them. Cady meets a girl named Janice and they become friends. Janice help out Cady adjust to school. Regain the leader from The Plastics she tells Cady to join there group. At first Cady didn’t really want to but Janice insisted Cady do it and break up the Plastics. Janice and Regina used to be friends but Regina backstabbed Janice and theist was an opportunity to get back a Regina. AT first Cady hung out with the Plastics just to help Janice get back at them but then Cady Started to enjoy hanging out with them. Hanging out with the plastics gave Cady a status that she hadn’t before. Cadis personality started to change she becomes more considered about the way she looked and dressed. After hanging out with the plastic for a while, they showed Cady the burn book where they wrote nasty things about people. Eventually Regina cashes up to Cady’s master plan of destroying the plastics. Regina then photocopied the book and threw the copies around the school. Everyone