Week 5 reading assignment is Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants". It is a about a man who wants a girl to get rid of her baby, by having an abortion. She does not really want to have an abortion, but the man tells her, their life will go back to being happy if she goes through with the procedure. He tells her, he will love her regardless of what she decides. This week questions are does she stay in her relationship with the man ,and when have you made a important choice to stay in a relationship or leave a relationship -- OR -- stay or leave a difficult situation?
Yes, I believe the girl stays in the relationship, because she loves the man more than she loves does herself. On reason I believe she will stay is when she says, "I don't care about me". When she said that, she is telling us, that she will put his feelings and happiness above hers. Another thing that she says that leaves me to believe she will stay with him is when she tells him that she knows things,and can tell that it is not right to have the abortion, but she still going to go through with it to please him. That shows that she is going always do any and everything to please the man, regardless if it is not want she wants. She had given up caring about her feelings to keep him satisfied. So no, I do not see her leaving the relationship. Twenty-five years ago, on a hot summer day in early July, after the man I thought I would spend the rest of my life with, called me out my name for the third time in less than five minutes, I knew it was time for me to leave this volatile relationship, before one of us ends up dead and the other one in jail. I have been in this relationship for over ten years and it had been nothing put psychical and verbal abuse on both are parts: him cussing me out, me throwing things or hitting him. But that day as I sat there silently listening to him calling me out my name over and over again trying to get a reaction out of me, I knew I was tired of living this life. As he walk toward the chair I was sitting in, I stood and pushed him in the chest and with tears coming down my face I scream "I hate you". He called me another name and next thing I know I had slap him in the face. Now normal he will just grab my hands, but this time he swung back and that when all hell broke loose and at the end of the day
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