Compare And Contrast Black Man And White Woman In Dark Green Rowboat

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Hills Like White Elephant and Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat is story written by Russell Banks. While the Hills Like White Elephant is a story written by Earnest Hemingway. The stories talk about abortion even though the word is not mentioned directly. They involve two characters caught up in a situation and are both trying to solve their issues through abortions. The Hills Like White Elephant story is about a man and a woman about to set for a trip to a place where they can procure an abortion. The story is set in Spain as the man and the girl are waiting for a train but we are never told if they boarded the train or not. On the other hand, Black Man and White Woman in Dark …show more content…

The Hills Like White Elephant, is set in Barcelona in a train station. While the Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat is set on a lake in a row boat. Both the setting are in a place of transit. In Banks the Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat, the story takes pace in a lake and starts with a conversation between a man and a woman being referred to as “the girl.” In Hemingway’s The Hills Like White Elephant, the story starts as the characters; a man and a woman converse about pregnancy in a train station in Spain. The stories are about individuals making a decision about abortion, and the fact that according to the stories the characters are stuck in a place of transit means that, their lives are stuck because of a certain problem that needs to be solved, a pregnancy, and …show more content…

In Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat, the author does not disclose the identity and names of the characters; instead, Russell Banks uses imageries to describe his characters. Throughout the story, Banks uses descriptive imageries to introduce and describe his characters and what they are going through. For instance, he writes “Her long, honey blond hair swung from side to side across her tanned shoulder” (Banks 63). In addition, Earnest Hemingway uses underlying words to hide the true meaning of what he is trying to say. For instance, the author uses the words Hills and Elephants in a story that is about pregnancy and abortion. In the story, hills might mean pregnancy while elephants can mean problems brought about by unwanted pregnancy and leads to

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