In this new blog assignment I will tie together the emotion and symbolism of “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway to a time in my own life. A time which consisted of sadness and confusion. My theme will consist of emotional moments that can bring people together. - Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway) I was about 12 years old in the summer of 2012 and I was making lunch with my mother when the phone wrang. My mother’s hands were covered with breadcrumbs and sauce, so she then said to me “Dan who’s calling, could you answer it for me?” I replied by saying “It’s Uncle Joe”. I then answered and said “Hello” as my mother washed her hands off, she then took the phone and began talking to him. I overheard his voice on the phone, he asked my mother “Megan are you driving? Because if you are pull over there’s something I have to tell you” he said this because he knew the news would be absolutely devastating to my mother and didn’t want her to get distracted while driving. He then said to her “I’m sorry Meg but Aunt Anne just passed away”, she immediately started to cry and then proceeded to fall to the ground and drop her phone. I then grabbed her some tissues and asked her “mom what happened?” she replied with “my favorite person just died”. I knew immediately who it was, my Aunt had a vital role in my mom, aunt, and uncles live’s so this must be very hard to deal with. I was still young so I wasn’t as upset especially because I didn’t know her as well as her. I then got my mother up and we got in the car and went right over to my grandmother’s. Other family members were there too because they knew how this would affect her. I walked up to my grandmother with my mom and said “I can’t believe this, she was such an amazing woman” we then hugged and sat down. As all the adults were mourning and conversing over old memories and objects from my aunt’s life I realized something. As bad as death is and as sad as this situation is, indirectly it brought my entire family together, because we all knew how important she was to everyone and how this would affect us. As bad as a situation is there is always a bright side and the brightside here is that we were all brought together from one bad thing, we were all there for eachother and helped each other through this tough time.
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