his assignment will help switch focus to the Hemingway story and write an introductory paragraph about it. Introduce this fictional piece to your reader and identify a focus, a main idea: what you want to research about this story. (And this focus may change as you research!) Specifically, this week is a very important week as we will delving more deeply into our major primary text of this course, “Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway. In this story, we are already discovering that what is left out is as meaningful as what is put in. Information may seem to be sparse, but Hemingway gives us exactly what we need to know to understand what the work is about, in a method we will discover to be Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory. If you understand the Iceberg Theory, you understand Hemingway.
Critical Thinking Prompt: For the research paper on “Hills Like White Elephants”, it is important to begin outlining ideas for your rough draft now. It is also important to identify which sources you will be using for this paper.
Once you have reviewed the presentation, write and submit the first paragraph of your research paper on “Hills Like White Elephants.” It should show a clear thesis statement towards the end of this paragraph. You have already accomplished considerable critical analyses on two primary texts: use this knowledge and information as you begin this first paragraph of your research paper for “Hills Like White Elephants.”