Indecisions

Ernest Hemingway has to be one of the greatest literary genius I have the fortune to come across. It is an assigned reading in class which I really didn't take seriously. Why didn't I ever? I should have known. A clean well lighted place, the old man and the sea, and this time hills like white elephants. This story Is about a young man and a young lady having an out of ordinary conversation in the most enugmatic, extremely unusual places- the train station.Understandably, my classmate us assigned to topic present it in the framework of comprehension skills. His was an impeccably well though out presentation alongside activities which we breezed through painlessly. Painlessly truly it was that our teacher has unexpectedly decided by all means to delve deeper into its insights to use pedagogically sound strategies in class and hopefully in our own classrooms as well. Asked to tabular present the 5 level reading guide question by Williams gray, we noiselessly scribbled our our homework on the board from literal to creative levels. Williamh gray purports the levels of questioning:
1. Literal
2. Interpretative
3. Integrative
4. Applied
5. Creative
Having done the board work, we proceeded to discussing the literal level which tool 2/3rds of the whole morning. The setting we realize as we listen to her discuss us it by far the most important part of the shirt story."hemingway wouldn't have put these words, chosen them carefully without out. Nothing is accidental. It was there because they convey meaning.
As it turned out, the setting us the most outstanding part of the story. It was set on a train station between Barcelona and spain. A couple is seated across a valley with hills beyond that look like elephants. The story uses dialogues, shirt ones not using referents for the speaker. Hills like white elephants is a figurative language used to describe something useless. All throughout the conversation, both characters did not declare explicitly what "it" means but it can be inferred that the lady is pregnant and that the young man is suggesting or simply bringing up the idea of abortion . To abort or not to another the baby. This is one big decision the young kaftbus about to make. The story ended with her still contemplating and finally realizing that she has to decide on her own.
I love the story in a sense that it uses simple language, and the fact that Hemingway gas once again impressed me with a relatively simple yet gripping story that left me pensive abx meditative. Still too I am quite amazed at his ability to explain ambiguities on life and yet leaving the reader with profound thoughts. Imhappytgankyoumoreplease.