1. What do you know about Hemingway?
● He committed suicide once at home.
● He is a great writer—“The old man and the sea” is perhaps the most well- known book in China.
● He is among the “Lost Generation” writers.

2. What is the“Lost Generation”

3. Who is the“Hemingway hero”to you?

4. what is the “Iceberg Theory”?

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【Synopsis】
The story focuses on a conversation between an American man and a girl at a Spanish train station while waiting for a train to Madrid. The girl compares the nearby hills to white elephants. The pair obliquely discuss an "operation" that the man wants the woman to have, which is implied to be an abortion.

5. Where are they?
in Spain

6. Are they in a big city or just a small village?
【in a small village】

7. What are the two people doing in the story?
They’re sitting at a table in a bar.

8. Why use “the” American instead of“an” ?
To indicate that the girl is not American and there is only one American in the bar.

9. Why does he order beer in Spanish?
To show the American man can speak Spanish or he has been in Spain for some time.

10. What does this sentence mean by the girl?

【tips】

Most liquorice is used as a flavouring agent for tobacco, particularly US blend cigarettes, to which liquorice lends a natural sweetness and a distinctive flavour and makes it easier to inhale the smoke by creating bronchodilators, which open up the lungs.

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(She was pregnant and hoped to give birth to it. She has been waiting for the happiness of being a mother for so long but unfortunately, the man would like her to do an operation, which made the girl very depressed and despair. )

11. Why does he call her “the girl” ?
To show that she is very young and innocent. ( also imply she has not much life experience and has to rely on the man. And that’s the reason why she cannot speak Spanish. )

12. ✨“That's all we do. Look at things and try new drinks." Do you agree with the man’s outlook on life?

✔️That is quite an optimistic attitude. Life will go on no matter what happens. If you are not in a good mood, then try new drinks. Alcohol will always gives you the best comfort. It’s just like a dream when you’re drunk and forget about the reality for a while.

✖️Drinking is just a way of escaping the reality. Actually, you can do nothing when you’re drunk. You have to face the adverse bravely and handle it directly, not by merely buying yourself a drink. Besides, drinking too much does no good to your body and it’s easily for you to do something stupid.

13. What is the relationship between the man and the girl?
They are most likely lovers.

14. ✨In the end, the girl just said” I’m fine, there’s nothing wrong with me. I feel fine.” It looks like nothing had happened between the couple from the beginning to the end? Do you think the writer set it on purpose and makes it look like a giant circle?
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15. ✨In the story, who is the bad guy / villain, the man or the girl?

【the man]】He loves the girl but he does not want the unborn baby. Whenever something happens, he will choose to drink ( alcohol). To some extent, he is selfish and disregard for other people’s feelings.

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