Communication can be very simple or very complex. There are a lot of parts to communicating with others. The more advanced our society becomes, the more ways we will have to communicate. We have gone from talking face-to-face, to letters. Then as technology developed we started to talk on phones and texting. All these new ways of communicating has made it harder to tell what kind of emotion we are expressing. Reading another person’s body language can be a big help, on telling you there emotions on the subject
Communication is a two person job and both have to talk with words and other ways like body language for it to work. The couple in Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Hills like White Elephants” were talking about an “easy operation”. The operation they were talking about was an abortion, trying to decide whether to go through with it or not. He was trying to get her to have the abortion. But really she doesn’t want it, so she tries to change to keep changing the conversation. He wasn’t readying her body language and this leads him into thinking that they both are on the same page but they are not. The lack of communication in this relationship will most likely lead to a break up.
In the film “Click”, Mike is so focused on his job like everyone else in this world. He doesn’t seem to notice the big problems that are going on right in front of his eyes. It takes a crazy dream for him to finally notice the most important thing is his family; and that the reason he was having problems at home was that he wasn’t talking about his problems with them. If Mike would have told his wife about his problems maybe they could have worked them out as a family.
Communication is very complex but if done properly it should be simple. This means all people involved in conversation have to be open and honest sharing through words or other ways, like body language, or it does not work.