Raflection #1 "Strange Title and Humans Actions"

Of all the things we did in the class this week, the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” capture my attention. Not only the title sounds strange and mysterious, but it contents guide you to a dialogue difficult to understand. It doesn’t give you too many details and descriptions and that complicate it. I read it twice and I didn’t understand it. It wasn’t until I read it for the third time that I knew that the author was talking about an abortion.

It results incredible that a girl and a man are not only talking about an abortion but planning it. It couldn’t be worth. The man has mental disease. Or he is ignorant or he has no conscience, but there’s something in his mind that don’t let him see the truth about this issue. All this start when the girl asked him "What should we drink" and he said "Beer". Wait a second, if she is pregnant, isn’t' drinking harmful for the little creature? Trough the story we could see he is always insisting her to abort, in certain form, saying that it is simple and that everything would be like before. After all, the girl ended saying “Then I’ll do it. Because I don’t care about me.” Why she get convinced? Obviously because she is just a girl in love with a man who is easily washing her brain in order to do what he wants. This shows that the man has a total control over this relationship and over her. Notice that this doesn't mean that she will do it or not. This only shows that she has a tendency to accept his ideas because he is playing with her mind and trying to control her.

It's difficult for me to understand why someone has such a criminal mind to plan an assassination which results more incredible to believe it is legal. The worth of this is that her harmful activities, like drinking, put the innocent creature in danger. There’s something that captures me the intention. The author didn’t give much detail like how old are the characters, but he offer us two words, girl and man. I think that he is trying to put a distance between the two characters. He is trying to separate both ages. And if this is true, that easily explain why the man want her to abort. He doesn’t want to be in troubles for pregnant a minor. Don't you believe me? So well, think about what he said: "You know how I get when I worry". Worry about what? As if it wasn't enough, the pour girl, because of her ignorance, doesn’t understand that she is playing a dangerous game. The man just wants her to abort and then...

The story has an open ending and you decide how the story would end. In my opinion, I'm not sure if she will do it or not. It all depend if she grow up and find what is right for her, even if that imply to break with the relationship and continuing with her pregnancy. The story was interesting. It was a little difficult to understand but it was totally enjoyable. The only strange thing of all this is the title.