Respond to Peers: Respond to at least two of your classmates' initial posts. Each response should be at least 75 words in length and should address two or more of the following questions:
Did your classmate acknowledge the complexities in the character he or she chose? If so, how so? If not, what should he or she consider?
Are there other conflicts that your classmate should consider? For example, if your classmate primarily discussed a character's external conflicts, offer an internal conflict that the character faces, or vice versa.
Does your classmate adequately connect the character with the setting? Are there details that he or she did not discuss but are important to the story? Why are these details important? Explain to your classmate.
The literary work that the American and the girl are in is Hills Like White Elephants By Ernest Hemingway (1927). They interested me because they were so dry with each other and it seemed like a regular couple trying to get through some problems they are trying to overcome. The American and the girl are trying to talk about the situation at hand trying to work on what they should do.
The girl wants to go through with the whole plan and the American keeps telling her that he doesn't have to do it if she doesn't want to. At the end of it all the girl makes up her mind on what she wants.
Her choices contribute to the story because everything they are doing depends on how she wants to feel and what she wants is to be happy along with being free with having the ability to do as she pleases.
The conflict they have encountered is finding out the girl is pregnant and between the both of them they are trying do decide what to do, but the girl seems to have her mind made up as to what she is going to do.
The setting contributes to the characters development because it gives them a chance to see what they could have and what they couldn't have about the situation at hand.
It gives it more meaning and it shows the experiences because they are able to travel and go any where they please which is why the girl wants to go through with the plan. She wants to be able to do anything she wants and be happy while doing it.
The character that I decided to discuss is Robert from "Cathedral". This character interests me because Robert is an understanding, kindhearted man who really attends to others and their feelings. The choices that Robert makes that contribute to the theme of the story are to build a cathedral with the narrator's wife and he was a confidant when the wife went through some hard times.
Some of the conflict that Robert encounters is the narrator is jealous of him because of his relationship with his wife. Some people may say that Robert's blindness is a conflict, but Robert can see well than the narrator because the narrator is blind in other ways that make him not as compassionate as Robert.
The setting contributes to the characters development because Robert and the narrator draw the cathedral together in front of the wife while she is sleeping. The two men draw the cathedral in the married couple's house. The narrator and Robert bond and after the cathedral is drawn the narrator sees things differently.