https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km en-us 2017-01-04 13:44:15 UTC 2025-11-04 22:33:43 UTC hello@padlet.com skylar_mireles https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145348597 I]]> 2017-01-04 18:42:59 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145348597 sheepoe1 https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145348789 In the short story " Hills Like White Elephants" it displays existentialism through how we have a tendency to please other people more than anything and we do not communicate effectively on how we are feeling. In category 2, it explains how we are drawn to people and we feel the need to need for other beings. " And if I do it you'll be happy and things will be like they were and you'll love me?" The women said to the men. She just wanted to please him and for her not to loose their "love." It display another category for her wanting to not loose the love. Category is about how we experience certain emotions: fear, hate, and love. Which she was experiencing seem to be fear because if she was sure about the abortion they would not have the conversation that they were having. But she also wanted to stay in the "love" with her partner which is another emotion. 
Existentialism was also displayed through the abortion. In the category one it talks about how we don't have a saying in either we are born or not. The baby in her stomach didn't choose to be made and had no choice in telling them to either if he/she wanted to be in the world or not. The girl tried to avoid the uneasiness by just saying it's okay. ]]> 2017-01-04 18:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145348789 tyraalexiscollins https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145349023 In the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" the author conveys the struggles of communication, needs, and confusing emotions that are placed upon the characters. As readers go through the story, the topic of abortion is a major factor in having the characters, in particular Jig, debate upon what necessary actions must be taken in order to have the man she "needs". Few actions have certain consequences that are unrepairable. Jig knows deep down, regardless of her own uncertainty, her need in her spouse is much more vital as opposed to the life and love of a child.
 Jig seems to be insecure and needs a man to bring her the security she is missing. Her husband, not content with the fact she is pregnant, puts her in a position of major emotions that involve asking "what if" questions and maybe some form of sadness that lies deep within. Jig ,herself, knows once the decision is made, there is no turning back.
  ]]> 2017-01-04 18:44:27 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145349023 jelani_johnson https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145349176 In the short story "Hills Like White Elephants", Ernest Hemingway creates an existential situation of conflicting decisions between two characters of the story. The conversation regarding a possible abortion lacked the essential communication it desperately needed. The man's repetitive statement of the operation being "perfectly simple", suggests what his intentions are but does not uncover his feelings towards the child and the woman. The woman expresses the simple emotion of love and affection for the man, but struggles to follow through with the decision of the operation which creates a vast communication barrier. ]]> 2017-01-04 18:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145349176 hemascorro0113 https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145349432 In Hemingway's story "Hills Like White Elephants", he illustrates the existentialism understanding that people will do anything for love, even if it is a love that lacks true communication. While both the woman and the man in this story confess their love for each other despite their situation, both never truly state what they feel, as they continue to walk around the touchy subject of abortion instead of expressing what they want clearly. Both divulge in the elementary emotion of love, and understand that they are drawn to each other, but never communicate what they feel on the inside, as they never seem to get their own meaning across to the other. While the woman wants to keep the baby, she says she would get an abortion if that would make the man happy and continue to love her. Similarly, the man wants her to have an abortion, but he continually states she doesn't have to get the operation done if she doesn't want to, confessing that he will love her no matter what.]]> 2017-01-04 18:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145349432 miapatteson https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145349783 Reviewing Hemmingways short story "the Hills like white Elephants" through an existentialism perspective we see the ideals of the time addressed through the sensitive subject of abortion. The simple dialogue reveals two people who claim to be in live which each other but are unable to communicate their individuals thoughts and desires. The contrast between the two characters perspective and outlook on the situation highlights the story's theme of shallow love. ]]> 2017-01-04 18:46:58 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145349783 laurel_patterson https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145349958 Ernest Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants" illustrates the struggle with communicating between a couple. Their true feelings on the abortion they are debating to get are shadowed by their language. Through an existentialist perspective, the theme could be understood as our communication barely reveals our true feelings. ]]> 2017-01-04 18:47:31 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145349958 sean_hu https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145350120 In the short story "Hills Like White Elephant", Ernest Hemingway highlights the gap between a couple when faced with the decision of abortion, especially through their rhetoric which correlates with characteristics of existentialism. ]]> 2017-01-04 18:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145350120 aojeda0921 https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145350273 In "Hills Like White Elephants," Ernest Hemingway portrays the two main characters that lack communication as they express their conflicting emotions about the future of their unborn baby. Although they don't explicitly convey their true feelings, the girl is undoubtedly afraid of the decision of an abortion, while the man overpowers her by claiming to understand the circumstances of such procedure, even though he will never truly understand the pressures of a pregnant woman. Through the eyes of existentialism, the couple avoids adequate communication as neither truly speaks their mindsets. Not to mention, the unborn baby doesn't have the choice of whether to be born or not. In this case, the man is choosing the fate of the baby, and making this decision causes stress for the couple, accumulating feelings of fear and loss for the girl. Their lives will change forever, regardless of their final decision to go through the procedure or by allowing the baby to be born.]]> 2017-01-04 18:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145350273 olyviabailey https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145350314 In Ernest Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants", the main characters battle with the elementary emotions, and go to war with the theme of love and inability to communicate that non-verbal mean. The lack of free will and choice is exemplified, for both parties feel they are restricted by the others true feelings that they have hidden and haven't begun to explain to one another. Both characters experienced being drawn to others, and need others who can't communicate, resulting in the restriction of practicing free will. The woman mainly battles herself and her inner emotions and making the decision to shirk her true duties and responsibilities, or to stay true to her hidden emotions and become an authentic person ]]> 2017-01-04 18:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145350314 stephanie_alvarez https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145350713 In "Hills Like White Elephants" Hemingway develops two characters that have a complicated relationship due to an unplanned pregnancy which reveals the complications of life that occur because of inadequate communication between people in society. From an existentialist perspective this couple represents the conflicts what all existentialists face in their lives. Every choice people make has a direct consequence and are driven to responsibly handle the consequence whether it is positive or negative. The couples lack of effective communication and fear of loosing their carefree lifestyle drive them to discuss a decision to eliminate what stands in their way. ]]> 2017-01-04 18:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145350713 tatimclaren https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145351050   Ernest Hemingway's " Hills like White Elephants" expresse the underlying concepts of existentialism of how life is a series of choices that result in stress, few decisions come without consequences and once a decision is made you must follow though.The story's two characters are faced with a decision on having an abortion that most definitely results in stress and comes with some negative consequences. The story's male character states that " if you don't want to you don't have to" even though  it obvious that a decision has already been made and according to existentialism ,once you make a decision you must follow through, which she inevitably does.]]> 2017-01-04 18:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145351050 rockstar_1286 https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145351105 In "Hills like White Elephants," the characters struggle with their communication and showing their feelings towards one another creating an existentialist perspective. The woman falls under the second and third characteristics because through her struggle in while being pregnant she figures out that she needs other people, she needs the man to be by her side. Since the man doesn't share her views he cannot really truly be there for her because he doesn't comprehend what she is saying and feeling. ]]> 2017-01-04 18:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145351105 judithhh71 https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145351130 In "Hills like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway the short story depicts a couple strained by the discussion of abortion. Through an existential perspective it can be revealed that the couple's lack of direct communication is used to obscure their true feelings of the abortion with the female character hesitant of her lover's pressure to have an abortion. Furthermore, the pregnancy itself touches upon the categories of our lack of control in our birth and the betrayal of our body. The female character is torn between the emotions that come from our existential codependency on one another and the fear that she may lose the love from her partner over her pregnancy.]]> 2017-01-04 18:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145351130 lindsay_mcdonough https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145351198 In the story, "Hills like White Elephants," the fact that the couple talks without actually communicating with one another, is an example of one of the categories of existentialism, in that communication through language is inadequate in revealing true emotion. Throughout the whole story, the couple talks to one another with out really understanding each others' feelings, which is a basic fundamental of the theory of existentialism.]]> 2017-01-04 18:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145351198 https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145351395 Ernest Hemingway's, "Hills Like White Elephants," shows the lack of communication amongst people and the difficulty to convey feelings through language. The two characters are faced with the decision to abort their child, but cannot come to a consensus- acting out of fear for their future. They lack a clear understanding of one anothers true feelings and are therefore unable to really communicate. Looking through an existentialist perspective, the central theme can be tied to the difficulty of communicating with others through language. ]]> 2017-01-04 18:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145351395 sophia_gutierrez https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145351941 In Ernest Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants", the author conveys the obstacles the couple face of miscommunication, different emotions, and what each of them personally want. The topic of abortion is revealed, and the couple have different feelings towards Jig getting an abortion. The perspective of existentialism is woven throughout the story, dealing with the fact that Jig needs the man in her life, so she will do anything to please him, and few decisions have negative consequences. This decision of abortion will end in hurt for her, but she experiences the emotion of love so she will do anything in order to maintain that feeling of love. Through existentialism, the author conveys the internal struggle Jig faces in her decision. ]]> 2017-01-04 18:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145351941 meghan_butler https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145352090 IN]]> 2017-01-04 18:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145352090 carolinemarie_331 https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145352668 In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants”, the couple deals with the five categories of existentialism throughout the story. While on vacation, the idea of a possible abortion looms over the couple relating to both the first and fourth category. This baby did not choose to be born and it’s death is already being considered. Despite having different ideas on the operation,  the couple finds themselves being drawn closer to one another but communication is only getting harder. The girl deals with the elementary emotions of category three as she fears life after the operation and longs for the man’s love. ]]> 2017-01-04 18:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145352668 cianney_leija https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145352798 In Ernest Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants" several categories of existentialism are portrayed when the couple has a conversation about abortion, they specifically emphasis on the second category where "we figure out that we need other people, and we are naturally drawn to others." However theres this communication barrier between the two when they decide the further of their unborn baby]]> 2017-01-04 18:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145352798 spenceryoung_c https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145352833 In “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, only the physical edge of a conversation is portrayed. The true meaning hides Hemingway’s ability of creating atmosphere and dialogue. A couple who seemingly are having a conversation about their surroundings are actually discussing a potential abortion and the end to a relationship. Through simile, metaphors, and character development Hemingway is able to hide the rest of the iceberg underneath the veil of existentialism. The couple lack the ability to communicate how they feel to one another in a very stressful situation, a problem all of us face.]]> 2017-01-04 18:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145352833 mckenzie_kotara https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145353138 In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills Like White Elephants”, the existential theme that language is inadequate and others cannot communicate is fairly prominent. The man and the girl spend the entire story discussing a certain that they seem to be unable to truly talk about.The dialogue is choppy, and no one person says much more than a few sentences at a time. In a way, they are both avoiding and forcing the discussion. Their discussion sounds like small talk more than an actual conversation, as if passing time instead of dealing with an actual problem. Neither person can state exactly what they feel, or what they want to say, instead they tiptoe around what they want to talk about.]]> 2017-01-04 18:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145353138 meghan_butler https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145353535 "Hill like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway can easily be related to existentialism because through the story we see existentialism philosophy being developed right before our eyes. Existentialism is a philosophy that relies on responsibility. The couple in story are faced with the biggest test of moral obligation and responsibility in their young lives when they have to choose whether or not to keep their unborn child. In the young mans case however, he's being very irresponsible and naive. " It's really a simple operation" he says to the female protagonist. Any operation is a serious operation and shouldn't be taken lightly. This one situation stands out apart from the many other examples of existentialism because it consists of a stressful choice, potential consequence, and follow through that can dictate their future.

]]> 2017-01-04 18:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145353535 joshuaryan_fink https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145354138 In "Hills like White Elephants", Ernest Hemingway conveys ideas of existentialism as a husband and wife look to salvage their relationship, but hold conflicting interests. In existentialism, there are few decisions that come without negative consequences. In this case, the husband is hinting to Jig, his wife, to have an abortion. As a possible option to save their relationship. However, Jig's annoyance towards the issue and the lack of conversation highlights the possible consequences this decision could have]]> 2017-01-04 19:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145354138 julia_hyun https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145355470 “Hills like White Elephants” is a short story about a man and a woman waiting for a train to Madrid. Hemingway shows the concept of existentialism by displaying two people who have difficulty communicating and showing their true emotions. He uses a existentialistic perspective to display a distance between the couple and the lack of connection between the two. ]]> 2017-01-04 19:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145355470 yousif_al_nuaimi https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145355691  In "Hills like White Elephants", Ernest Hemingway conveys ideas of existentialism as a husband and wife look to fix their relationship, as they both suffer to communicate. The couple claim ]]> 2017-01-04 19:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145355691 skylarmireles https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145356803 In Ernest Hemingway’s “ Hills like white Elephants”, the idea of Existentialism ( more importantly communication, or lack there of) is clearly the source of the tension between the man and the girl, not the actually child itself. Furthermore, the way the girl aims to please the man any way she can demonstrates a clearly toxic relationship, thereby proving that while we can’t help but need people, that same closeness often is our down fall.

]]> 2017-01-04 19:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145356803 sabrina_aguilera https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145357151  In the short story, "Hills Like White Elephants", by Ernest Hemingway the characters, addressed only as "the man" and "the girl" have a conversation that at first glance seems difficult to follow. The figurative language spanning the dialogue that spans most of the story gives the reader no direct idea of what the two characters, the man and the women are talking about as they talk with each other without ever communicating. The girl tries to address the elephant in the room by describing that the pair of hills she is observing "look like white elephants", she indirectly address a bothersome issue they are facing without directly trying to talk about it to the man- said issue being an abortion, creating a stressful situation between them with the choices that they may "choose". The distinctive naming of the characters being "the man" and "the girl" instead of "the man" and "the woman", or "the boy" and "the girl" subtlety show an inferred age difference between the couple, which helps paint the picture of the power the man holds over the girl, who is hesitant to speak, showing her lack of free will and choice of her own under his influence, as she tries to appeal to him because of how she is drawn to him through the elementary emotion of love. In the usage of these Existential and anti-Existential ideas, The unique set up by the author of a story with undefined characters, with a figurative dialogue that overtakes much of the setting leading ultimately leads the reader to the conclusion that theme of the story is the blatant side stepping, or rather, an "indirectness" of all things.]]> 2017-01-04 19:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145357151 christine_dyal https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145357692 While viewing Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” through an existentialist critical perspective, it is apparent he touches a very sensitive subject displaying two opposing opinions on how to approach the conflict at hand revealing that every decision has some type of unattractive consequence. The existentialist idea that all decisions have consequences of a sort appears when Jig is faced with the option to choose whether or not to follow through with what the boy wants of her: an abortion. Because of their strong feelings for each other, Jig is fearful that she may lose her love if she decides to do what she believes is the right thing to do for herself. Furthermore, their true intentions do not reveal themselves for they can not communicate clearly enough to come to a corresponding conclusion to please both of them.]]> 2017-01-04 19:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145357692 https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145358824 In Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants," existentialist ideals get put on display when the main characters, a young couple with their whole lives ahead of them, are forced to make the decision between aborting their child and keeping it. Either decision that they make presents its own consequences and once a decision is made, they must follow through. There is no going back. This piece also displays other parts of existentialism through the woman's lack of communication with her partner of her own wishes, instead going along with the man's wishes. ]]> 2017-01-04 19:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145358824 lopezdanielle98 https://padlet.com/deborah_livingston/b3xue28ux5km/wish/145360739 In the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" by Hemingway the simple definition of existentialism is portrayed by the adventurous couple backpacking throughout Europe. They're both living freely with each other, traveling around the world by their very own choice, unsure of what their goals are in the world other than seeing the world. The entire story outlines the couples indecisive decision about having an abortion, without saying the actual word or even the frightening word of "baby". Although the couple is unsure of their goals, they never planned for this to surprise them in their ventures with each other through life.  As the first concept of existentialism is that we are born without the choice to be, it contradicts how the baby is aborted without a choice either, no freewill or choice in its own existence. As well as Jibs constant battle with herself, she craves his love, which clouds her judgement to make the decision she wants, afraid that if it's the wrong one, she will no longer be loved. 

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