Comparing and contrasting Hills like elepants by Hemingway...

Markham 1 In order for a writer to make his readers understand the hidden meanings of events, literary techniques such as characterization, point of view, symbolism, setting and them must be present. The serious writers goal is not to tell us a story, to entertain or to move us, but to make us think and to make us understand the deep and hidden meaning of events. This quote by Maupassant reveals why Hemingway, the author of the short story Hills Like White Elephants, and Russell Banks the author of Blackman and White woman in a dark green Rowboat use literary techniques. Ann Charters says in appendix III of The Story and Its Writer, in all successful fiction characters come alive as individuals. They must materialize on the page†¦show more content†¦Russell Banks uses the technique of symbolism to show what the couples have to go through if they keep the pregnancy. However In Blackman and White Woman in a Dark Green Rowboat Banks use the dark green rowboat to stand for the journey that lies ahead of the couple if they are to have the baby. Green is usually interpreted to mean good pastures or fertility but it is contradicted by the word Dark therefore giving the reader, the impression that, the couples would not succeed in their search for greener pastures if they are to have the baby. Despite the keen similarity between the two short stories, Bankss story adopts more allegorical techniques than Hemmingway since the characters: place, things and events in Banks short story represent symbolic qualities and have fixed meaning. Setting is the place and time of the story. Guy De Maupassant in The Writers Goal states that He will show how minds are modified under the influence of environmental circumstances, and how sentiments and passions are developed. To set the scene, the writer attempts to create in the readers visual imagination the illusion of a Markham 4 solid world in which the story takes place. Hemingways uses a train station as a setting. On one side of the station, there is a green landscape full of grain fields and trees. A river runs in the foreground of some tall mountains. This side of the stations suggests