Bilingual Writer

Hills Like White Elephants  This is a fascinating story that raises the controversial issue of abortion. Hills Like Elephants is the story of an adventurous young couple who travels the world seeking a life of freedom without any attachment to anything. Just Carpe Diem, I would say that is their motto. However, the story complicates when the girl becomes pregnant. She makes a similitude when she says that the hills surrounding them are like white elephants; those white elephants represent the unborn baby that she is expecting. According to my reading, white elephants were a gift, but at the same time, a punishment in the Thai culture; since they are difficult to get rid of and expensive to keep. The man in the story professes a love for the girl; he says he wants no-one else but her. At the same time, he furtively is motivating her to abort just to their nomad lifestyle. On the other hand, the girl at the beginning saw the creature as a nuisance, but some time after she s...

The story of an hour is such a passionate story. A mindless reading might not allow seeing how profound this reading is. It is so full of imagery. Moreover, the writer let so much to the readers' imagination. I believe that I will get a feeling of it, and another reader with different life experience will get a different one based on that. Besides, It caught my attention the fact the writer raised the issue of women rights and feminism in a period when women had none. The writer was advance to her time, as she could foresee that women will demand a better place in society. They deserve more than just being a wife, mother, and daughter. Mrs. Mallard subconsciously was expecting freedom that never came true. It all happened when a friend of the family, Richard, brought the news that Mr. Mallard passed away in a train accident. Since the news was communicated hastily, without due assessment of its reality, it seems to me that Richards had other interest in that situation. He was p...