Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway) This story was about a couple sitting at a bar next to the train station in Spain between Barcelona and Madrid. The young couple is faced with the difficult decision where the woman must choose between going forward with getting an abortion or keep the baby.
At first, the girl lives with an inner struggle with herself because she was unsure if she wanted the abortion or not. In the beginning of the story, the woman seemed to want to keep the baby but in the main time of the story, she also wanted to stay in relationship with the man. She had to make the difficult decision between the man or the baby. The man tried to persuade her into getting the abortion by saying “how it`s a simple procedure” or that “it`s really not an operation at all”. Those statements definitely make it sound like he does not want the woman to have the baby. I predict that in the end, the girl will stay in a relationship no matter what happens because she seems weak and powerless in the situation. I can tell from the conversation that she loves him and it’s hard for her to take the inconvenient decision. I also feel that the author put the setting of a train station in the story because it resembles a new destination in her life. I have made an important decision to quit or stay in my job. I started my job about 4 years ago when my friend told me that there was an open position at pre-primary school for an assistant teacher. I liked the idea of that job and I turned in my application and later got the job. In my time there, I enjoyed spending time with the kids there. I loved the fact that they didn’t judge me in the outside and liked me for who I was. I respected my co-workers, especially the oldest ones since it was a tradition in my culture to respect the elders and be helpful to them. On the other hand though, these people who I thought were my friends, took advantage of me and I ended up staying late to do their work. When I would report this behavior to the principal, she never took any real action to solve the issue. I stayed there for a long time because I really needed the job although I didn’t like coming into work every day knowing that I would be treated disrespectfully. It was finally time to take action and I stood up for myself and told the principal that I would quit and to look for other people to take my position. She pleaded me to stay and offered to pay for a Montessori Certification and to upgrade my position there and assured me that I would not work with the same teachers. After a couple months, the school decided to add another building and the principal told me that she couldn’t afford to pay for my certification. So after hearing this I made the tough decision to withdraw my position in that school. Today, I can say that it was one of the most satisfied moments of my life.
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Candace Stoltzfus
2/23/2018 01:32:47 pm
I have enjoyed talking to you in person and getting to know you a little better. I would love to hear more about your cultural experiences!
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