"I-80 Nebraska, M.490-M.205" and "Hills Like White Elephants" display similar characteristics in language, which in turn create and describe the tone of both story. "I-80 Nebraska, M.490-M.205" by John Sayles, uses "trucker jargon" to describe the setting and the characters in the story. Although the setting and characters are directly described in "Hills Like White Elephants," both stories use a type of jargonization to create a sense of mystery about the conflict of each story. In "I- 80 Nebraska, M.490-M.205," Ryder P. Moses, a drug using truck driver journeys around Nebraska attempting to out run time by never stopping or pitting to sleep and rest. "Hills Like White Elephants." an American man and a girl named Jig discuss whether or not to go through with an operation, while waiting for a train to Madrid, Spain. Both stories use time as a main factor although not directly stated, both stories use similar types of language to describe the tone which possesses an unidentified mystery later leading to the conflict and climax.
             "I-80 Nebraska, M.490-M.205" by John Sayles, begins on the road with truck drivers traveling along the interstates of Nebraska, speaking their own professional jargon, hauling goods as well as dealing with the normal chaos and havoc from other roadway driver (non-truck drivers). Through the dialogues different of truck drivers, the setting is set in the cabs of trailer rigs and on the roadways and highways of Nebraska. "Westbound on 80 is a light-stream, ruby-strung big rigs rolling straight into the heart of Nebraska. Up close they are a river in breakaway flood, bouncing and pitching and yawing, while a mile distant they are slow-oozing lava." "Westbound 80 is an insomniac world of lights passing lights to the music of the Citizens Band." Although the characters move from place to place, the setting never chan...