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FINAL PAPER
This work is presented as a requirement for Trends in American Literature
subject
Presented by:
Cristian Camilo Gallego Villegas
220710107
And
Alex Adrian Montoya Giraldo
220822671
Jorge Hernan Arias Valencia
Professor
UNIVERSITY OF CALDAS
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES
MODERN LANGUAGES PROGRAM
TRENDS IN AMERICAN LITERATUREMANIZALES, JUNE 14/2011
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Hills Like White Elephants
By Ernest Hemingway
1. The purpose of the trip is going to a big city to make an abortion surgery;
Since the man doesnt want to have a child.
2. They are identified as a man and a girl because they are a couple and they
are talking all the time each other, and the conversation goes around them.
The nickname the man uses to call the girl is Jig.
3. The landscape represents a choice related to the conversation; it is the choice
to proceed with the surgery and interrupt the pregnancy. The landscape is the
idea about do something wrong.
4. The girl looked across at the hills: This represents the pause she makes in order
to think about the decision shes got to make.
-The warm wind blew the bead curtain against the table: it shows that the
conversation is being carrying on with serenity.
-The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on: it is the hesitation on
making the decision to bring the child to this world.
- The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on the other
side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away,
beyond the river, were mountains. The shadow of a cloud moved across the
field of grain and she saw the river through the trees: this shows us the path
she was getting through to end up in a situation complicated or easy, to get
back the life they used to have.
- They sat down at the table and the girl looked across at the hills on the dry
side of the valley and the man looked at her and at the table: A little moment tothink, the man was looking at her in order to see what was she feeling at the
moment of looking at the hills, and when the man looked at the table he tried to
guess what was she thinking about the situation.
- He did not say anything but looked at the bags against the wall of the station.
There were labels on them from all the hotels where they had spent nights: He
was sort of regretting all the things they had lived before coming to this
situation, he was thinking on how life would change with the decision they
make.
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- The woman came out through the curtains with two glasses of beer and put
them down on the damp felt pads: She only wanted to continue the
conversation in a calm way.
- He picked up the two heavy bags and carried them around the station to theother tracks but could not see the train. Coming back, he walked through the
barroom. Where people waiting for the train were drinking. He drank an Anis at
the bar and looked at the people. They were all waiting reasonably for the train.
He went out through bead curtain. She was sitting at the table and smiled at
him: The two bags could represent the unknown but heavy life he was going to
have if the child is born, and when he didnt see the train is because he did not
see the future that was waiting for him.
5. She repeated the word please because she was feeling frustration, angry of not
being able to change the situation, and hysteria because he was pushing at her
to make a quick decision of which she was afraid of.
He left her alone at the table because the environment was a hot potato.
6. It is important because the location of the station represents that they are in the
way of making an important decision, and the white hills represent the
pregnancy as a state of change in their lives.
7. For whom do not know the idiom meaning of white elephant would not be able
to find a relation with the story, but it really represents the sort of life they aregetting through because is going to be more to lose than to gain (having the
baby).
8. It falls to the realistic fiction genre since it is a story that can actually happen and
is truth to life.
9. The story develops in the barroom of a rail station. Probably the Ebro River,
somewhere between Barcelona and Madrid.
10. An American man
- A girl
- And the woman who is attending them in the bar.
11. The story began with a description of the view of the river Ebro, and the white
hills beyond it, from a train station in Spain. An American man and a girl are
having some beers outside the station bar as they were waiting for the train to
Barcelona. The woman said to the man that the hills in the distance remindedher of "white elephants." their conversation remains stressed, and soon the man
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began trying to convince the woman, Jig, to have an abortion, but he said only, if
she wants to. She agreed to have the abortion, but she said that is only
agreeing because she was no longer caring about herself. She expressed
despair over the situation and she is feeling that all about her life is lost. She
became anxious and asked him to stop talking. The woman who had beenserving their drinks told them that the train was arriving soon, and the man got
up and took their luggage over the train stop. When he got back to Jig, who was
sitting at the table outside, she gave him a smile. He asked her if she felt better,
and she answered that she never felt bad in the first place.
12. The way the writer wrote the story as a urban experience and the womans
opinion is being taking into account.
Feathertop (HAWTHORNE)
1. In the New England of the seventeenth century, the witch Mother Rigby built a
scarecrow to protect her garden. She decided to bring the scarecrow to life and
send it into town to encourage Polly Gookin, the daughter of Judge Gookin,
toward whom Mother Rigby bore an unspecified grudge. Once the stuffed man
came alive, Mother Rigby gave him the appearance of a normal human being -and a pipe, on which the Scarecrow had to puff to keep himself alive. Judge
Gookin met the Scarecrow, whom Mother Rigby had named Feathertop.
Feathertop was introduced to Polly, and the two began to fall in love. But when
Polly and Feathertop gazed into a bewitched mirror, they saw Feathertop
reflected as a scarecrow, not as a man. Polly was terrified and anguished, so
the scarecrow came back to Mother Rigby, where he deliberately broke his pipe
and collapsed in a lifeless pile. Mother Rigby reflected, and concluded not to
take back into the life Feathertop.
2. Hawthorne wanted to show us how the unconscious people act for the thirst of
richness and power, without caring how to get that.
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Discussion Questions
1. We find similarities in the way they think about life, such as we can work to
have the necessary resources to live, enough to enjoy nature and be able to
maintain itself without earning so much because most of the people whoearn big quantities of money spend it off foolishly.
2. Business controls the thought of people in the way as you get more you can
live better than others and can be powerful since if you are more
important, you may control most part of the nation and have many hard-
working employers that will help you out in the way you just need to sit
down and see how things are done. Besides if you want to walk through the
woods half day and work the other half, you would be pointed out as a
loafer, but if for the contrary you work all day long you would be recognised
as a great citizen.
3. He decided to do something else than taking the job, given that the other
man was going to hoard more money than him for doing almost anything,
while he was going to be a sort of slave for less payment.
4. As he worked for obligation because there was not another way to get a
better way of living, because of it he did several jobs but without pleasure
and he expressed that at the end of the paper when he says. Do not hire aman who does you work for money but him who does for love if it.
5. Dignity of mans labour was lost because as the business controls peoples
thought they work for unworthy jobs in order to get something as a payment.
We totally agree with Thoreau because even nowadays we can see that
people work in anything they are offered without caring their dignity,
although sometimes for necessity.
6. He means that who does the things for love is not wasting his/her time, but
to idle or worse is to do things for merely money. Sort of interest.
7. He could be referring to the jobs that would give people the most land, but
not the most correct ones.
8. The aim of the labourer should be, not to get his living, to get a good job ,
but to perform well a certain work something you love doing than what you
do not.
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9. Thoreau was against making money in an ambitious way, because he
wanted a different manner to live with consciousness getting the necessary
without abusing from the others.
I Hear America Singing
1. A. The mechanics.
b. The carpenter.
c. The mason.
d. The boatman.
e. The deck-hand.
f. The shoemaker.
g. The hatter.
h. The wood-cutter.
i. The plowboy.
j. The mother.
k. The young wife.
l. The girl.
m. The day.
n. The fellows.
2. The songs represent the people who do their jobs with love, enjoying
what they were hired for. (This is what Thoreau was advising to the
employers in the text from Life without Principle in the last paragraph,
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it
for love of it...)
3. Indeed it does, because everyone enjoys what they do in life. Does not
matter the domain.
4. The poem reflects the faith of democracy when people can have the
freedom to choose what they want to do loving it, feeling themselves
comfortable.
5. We would add the lawyers, police agents, politicians, bus and taxi
drivers, the Red Cross, the civil defence and the people who fight to
protect human and animal rights.
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Success
1. What understands the best for succeed is the comprehension of the requires
sorest need. In our opinion based on the text those who want to succeed the
most are the ones who have never felt it, and successful people for the contrary
do not used to value it and since it is something common for them they do not
recognise it as it is.
2. What he means in the first stanza is that succeed is only sweetest for those
who have really fought to achieve it, and in the following stanzas he developed
this in the way that there are people who can hold a flag of victory but only few
of them may give a correct definition of it, and finally are the strains of triumph
what give us the motivation to seek it, feel it even for an instance.
3. Does not matter where we are or which situation we are getting through, we
always think about succeed in any way.
Im Nobody! Who Are You?
1. In line 4, they makes reference to the people who like to be recognise by
anyone, and admiring bog represents a place where all public characters are
involved. Where there is no place for unknown people.
2. By Mr Gallego: Honestly sometimes I think that solitude is quite important in the
life of a person, since you can think about anything in a clear and reasonably
way, while if you are with company this could be different because your mind
and thoughts are not open enough to express and coordinate the ideas that are
running on your brain; besides solitude makes us analyze and see the life in a
diverse perspective than if we were with anyone else.
By Alex: I prefer solitude than a public life because I can interact with my
superior being, nature and universe, I may know my soul in a deeper way than
what I do living in society. However sometimes its quite important to life toward
others in order to comprehend a bit more about our nature, our envy, angry and
all the actions I cannot see living isolated. Definitely there is nothing better inthis world than being alone when I want to connect myself with the universe and
the true dimension, insight me.
3. Im nobody! Who are you?
Dont you know yourself either?
Then we are two, right?
But weve got to keep it in secret
Because the others would make us disappear.How sad to be known
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No privacy for you
For your thoughts
Your life is taken away
As if you were nobody for them.
Again His Voice Is At The Door
1. My face to justify,
He never saw me in this life,
I might surprise his eye.
We talk in venture and in toss
A kind of plummet strain,
Each sounding shyly just how deep
The others foot had been
We walk. I leave my dog behind.
A tender thoughtful moon
Goes with us just a little way
And then we are alone
If we pay carefully attention in the first stanza we may notice that this lovecomes from a past life, just that the man has not realised about it yet, but
the woman feel it, that is why she is going to justify with her face the reunion
of their love, as long as the conversation goes on, the words have a deep
meaning and we could say that the man is corresponding to her feelings and
then in the last stanza with the moon as a witness they ended up alone.
2. He never saw me in this life
I might surprise his eye
For us they might mean that the love comes from a past life, or that it is an
arranged first date.
3. I look on all this world contains-
Just his face-nothing more!
In these lines we can realise that the woman looks at everywhere and the
only thing she sees is his face. (The man is the centre of her universe).
4. As long as the conversation goes on, the words have a deep meaning andwe could say that the man is corresponding to her feelings.
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5. They are not alone since she left the dog behind and the only witness is the
moon, which goes with them a little way.
6. The price that the author is willing to pay is propose to run away fromeverything and live alone, almost in solitude to share the eternity as angels
do no matter where.