Comparing Where Are you going, Where Have You Been and Hills Like White

Authors of great stories often use level-headed technical writing skills. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast two unretentive stories Where Are you going, Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates and Hills deal White Elephants by Earnest Hemingway. The comparison and contrast go away be done ground on their use of plot, point of view and character development. The short composition where are you going, where carry you been is active a teenage girl who is, vain, self-doubting and stick on in the present. She does not know anything about the past or doubts it and has no plan of the future. She argues with her mother and she thinks she is jealous of her. The start of the plot is not actually dramatic rather it is more like an introduction. We get a good description of the studys Protagonist, Connie at the beginning of the invoice and by dint of out. She is familiar, the typical American teenager, who dream, fantasize and have difficulty differentiating the real humanity from fairytale. Kozikowsky compares the story to the popular recent Disney tale Cinderella (1999). In Where are you going, where have you been? the setting of the story is not revealed at the beginning. The reader slowly learns about Connies family and her living condition throughout the story.In Hills Like Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, thither is no dramatic situation at the beginning of the story either, rather He starts by giving us a elaborate description of the setting. The reader gets a clear mental image of where the story will take place. The Author begins the story by introducing the scene since it will have a great significance in understanding the numerous symbolisms he will be using later. Some experts say that Although there is a situation, there is no plot ( Henningf... ... short story.Works cited Henningfeld, Diane Andrews. Hills Like White Elephants. Short Stories for Students. Detroit Gale, 2002. Literature election Center. Gale Kozikowski, Sta n. The Wishes and Dreams Our Hearts Make in Oatess Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?. Journal of the Short Story in English. 33 (Autumn 1999) 89-103. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 70. Detroit Gale, 2004. 89-103. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Renner, Stanley. Moving to the girls billet of Hills Like White Elephants.. The Hemingway Review. 15.1 (Fall 1995) p27. Literature Resource Center. Gale. Weeks, Lewis E., Jr. Hemingway Hills Symbolism in Hills like White Elephants. Studies in Short Fiction. 17.1 (Winter 1980) 75-77. Rpt. in Literature Resource Center. Detroit Gale, 75-77. Literature Resource Center. Gale.