In "Hills Like White Elephants" there is a commonplace opinion that the implied meaning of the two characters' discussion is about whether the girl should go through with getting an abortion (Link 4). ... Scholars have suggested the white elephant may be the man himself, or the couple's relationship or the costly act of getting an abortion (Link 4). ... The repetition of the man's emphasis on getting the abortion shows his desperation but also a hint of kind-heartedness because although he could force the girl to get an abortion because he is older, bigger, and more p...

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Though I am sure part of her addition was simply to give our hero that go-to motivational element there is something to be said about Quaid's request for an unmistakably different, and some might argue opposite, type of girl to that which he was currently married to. ... The limits of the fiction portion of the genre science fiction grants certain liberties in regards to what a film can get away with. ...

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Even when explaining how Robert lost his wife, he has more concern and pity for the woman he married for having to deal with a blind man than he feels pity toward Robert for losing her. ... Things get really interesting and intense when Robert asks the narrator to close his eyes and continue to draw and experience the cathedral the way he does, and when the narrator does this, everything changes. ... To be able to get a blind person to "see" the beauty of something without actually seeing it with their eyes is a beautiful thing in itself. ...

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