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This 4 page paper discusses two works by Ernest Hemingway, the novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and the short story “Hills Like White Elephants.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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direct observation of events told without embellishment. His style is distinctive and won him a legion of fans, but it also annoys others. There is no middle ground about Hemingway,
hes one of those authors that people either love or cant stand. This paper compares and contrasts two of his works: the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls and the
short story Hills Like White Elephants. Discussion Plot: For Whom the Bell Tolls covers a three-day period during the Spanish Civil War, and what happens to Robert Jordan, an American
supporter of the Republican cause in that war. He has come to Spain to fight, but that raises a question: should he even be there? Much of the book is
devoted to trying to find an answer to that question, and why a stranger would be so motivated to join the forces at war in another country. The book is
huge in scope, in the sense that it deals with civil war, though Hemingway chooses to examine the issues through the lens of the relationship between Robert and Maria, a
girl he meets the first day. They fall deeply and passionately in love immediately. That relationship is a direct contrast to that of an unnamed American man and his girlfriend,
Jig. Theyre sitting at a train station in the valley of the river Ebro; its barren and hot and the station is between "two lines of rails in the sun"
(Hemingway). The conversation between the two is unremarkable, until the reader reads between the lines, then it becomes a close examination of a relationship that is falling apart. They talk
about the heat, and about what drinks to order and whether or not to have more beer; then they switch to another type of drink, all the while making inconsequential
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