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Brian BrainiacCoach WeaselAP Lang/ American Lit, 4th DATE \@ "d MMMM yyyy" 23 March 2020Working Outline:The Significance of White in “Hills Like White Elephants,” “Isle of the Blest,” and “Design”IntroductionSherwin Williams has at least 48 shades of white (“Our Finest”)Value of white in marketing (Bourn)White in literature (Da Silva) (Nadal)Working Thesis: The meaning color white in literature is context specific and is a significant element of “Hills Like White Elephants,” “The White Island, or Place of the Blest,” and “Design.”Section 1: White has contrasting symbolism in literatureOverview of the poems“The White Island” contains traditional white imagery (Herrick), “Design” looks at the irony of a white object that relates to death (Frost) (Barron)Section 2: White in “Hills Like White Elephants”Overview of Hemingway & his workModernist writer (“Ernest (Miller)”) (Wyrick)Rain in A Farewell to Arms vs rain as a traditional symbol (Owens-Murphy)Hemingway follows a similar pattern with the color white in “HLWE”Symbolism of White: Textual Evidence ThroughoutWhite Elephant is an unwanted gift (Lid)Connection to unborn child (Lid) (Weeks)Other Symbolism (Weeks) (Wyrick)White Baby clothes/ baptism Clean hospitals Purity (Nadal) (Da Silva)Connection to story Section 3: Synthesis of the imagery in the works of literatureConclusionWorks CitedBarron, Jonathan N. "Robert Frost and a New Tradition." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 236, Detroit, MI, Gale, 2010. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.apps/doc/H1420100299/GLS?u=mari25641&sid=GLS&xid=57c165bc. Accessed 4 Mar. 2020. Originally published in His "Incalculable" Influence on Others: Essays on Robert Frost in Our Time, edited by Earl J. Wilcox, Victoria, British Columbia, U of Victoria, 1994, pp. 15-26.Bourn, Jennifer. "Color Meaning: Meaning of the Color White." Bourn Creative, 10 Dec. 2010, meaning-of-the-color-white/. Accessed 19 Mar. 2020.Da Silva, Francisco Vaz. “Red as Blood, White as Snow, Black as Crow: Chromatic Symbolism of Womanhood in Fairy Tales.”?Marvels & Tales, vol. 21, no. 2, Nov. 2007, pp. 240–252.?EBSCOhost, search.login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=31691340&site=ehost-live. Accessed 23 Mar. 2020."Ernest (Miller) Hemingway." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, 2005. Literature Resource Center, link.apps/doc/H1000044377/GLS?u=mari25641&sid=GLS&xid=f95709fa. Accessed 28 Feb. 2020.Frost, Robert. "Design." 1916. , Academy of American Poets, poem/design. Accessed 28 Feb. 2020.Hemingway, Ernest. "Hills Like White Elephant." 1927. Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, edited by Edgar V. Roberts and Robert Zweig, AP edition. ed., Boston, Pearson, 2018, pp. 311-14.Herrick, Robert. "The White Island, or Place of the Blest." Poetry Foundation, 2020, poems/50692/the-white-island-or-place-of-the-blest. Accessed 28 Feb. 2020.Lid, Richard W. "Hemingway and the Need for Speech." Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter 1962-1963, pp. 401-07. JSTOR, stable/26277321. Accessed 28 Feb. 2020.Nadal, Marita. "Variations on the Grotesque: From Poe's 'The Black Cat' to Oates's 'The White Cat.'" The Mississippi Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 3, Summer 2004, p. 455+. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.apps/doc/A131691021/GLS?u=mari25641&sid=GLS&xid=b7a10dd2. Accessed 4 Mar. 2020."Our Finest Whites Collection." Sherwin Williams, 2020, homeowners/color/find-and-explore-colors/paint-colors-by-collection/our-finest-whites. Accessed 19 Mar. 2020.Owens-Murphy, Katie. "Hemingway's Pragmatism: Truth, Utility, and Concrete Particulars in a Farewell to Arms." The Hemingway Review, vol. 29, no. 1, Fall 2009, p. 87+. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.apps/doc/A219309564/GLS?u=mari25641&sid=GLS&xid=4500e694. Accessed 23 Mar. 2020.Weeks, Lewis E., Jr. "Hemingway Hills: Symbolism in 'Hills like White Elephants.'" Literature Resource Center, Detroit, MI, Gale, 2020. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.apps/doc/H1420022892/GLS?u=mari25641&sid=GLS&xid=8d0884dc. Accessed 4 Mar. 2020. Originally published in Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 17, no. 1, Winter 1980, pp. 75-77.Wyche, David. "Letting the Air into a Relationship: Metaphorical Abortion in `Hills like White Elephants.'" The Hemingway Review, vol. 22, no. 1, Fall 2002, p. 56+. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.apps/doc/A94775662/GLS?u=mari25641&sid=GLS&xid=592125c8. Accessed 4 Mar. 2020.Wyrick, Green D. "The World of Ernest Hemingway: A Critical Study." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Carol A. Schwartz, vol. 388, Farmington Hills, MI, Gale, 2020. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.apps/doc/H1420127831/GLS?u=mari25641&sid=GLS&xid=a2c50f69. Accessed 4 Mar. 2020. Originally published in The Emporia State Research Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 1953, pp. 3-32. ................
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