Jig and Luz

                After I read both of the stories, I think “Hills like white elephants” and “A very short story” are different. The first one is writing about a girl loves the man who does not care about her. The second one is about a man is betrayed by the girl. These two stories are opposite. Also, the characters in the story are different. In “Hills like white elephants”, the main character Jig is an inexperience girl, and she is very innocent. In her world, it revolves round to the American. She can give up the child for the man because she loves him very much. On the other hand, she grows to maturity in the situation. As Jig realizes the man does not care about her, she becomes having reactions to the words which the man says. In the end, she may make the decision to break up with the man for “she was sitting at the table and smiled at him” which means the girl already eases the pain. From these contexts, we can know that the girl grows up. In “a very short story”, Luz is a negative example as a woman. The man in the story gives all of his love to her, but she just has sex with the Italian. Moreover, she says that if the man has a good career, they will get married. However, it ends up with a letter which talks about Luz’s betrayer. Luz is bad girl, but also honest girl because she tells the truth to the man.

            In my opinion, I like Jig better than Luz. I think Jig is a very cute by her reactions in the story. When she looks at the curtain or describes the mountains as white elephants, we can see how pure she is. In contrast, unlike Jig, Luz has done the thing which is same as her name “lose”, and her beavers are not forgivable. I believe she hurts the man very hard, so the man backs to the life he has before, and it is Luz’s fault.

 nice.