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Boys and Girls
Title: Boys and Girls
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 504 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Boys and Girls
Boys and Girls
“She’s only a girl” was a very significant statement within the short story, Boys and Girls, by Alice Munto. Boys and Girls was a gender-sensitive short story written in 1968. This story gave an example of the unfair treatment women received throughout that era. It also displayed the hard times that a young girl went through competing with her brother for equal attention and love.
Boys and Girls took place on a small, family farm. The father of this family raised, skinned, …showed first 85 words of 504 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 504 total…Girls. The protagonist symbolizes courage and boldness. By freeing Flora, this young girl represented self-sacrifice and a female’s need for freedom. Through Flora, the young girl was able to attain a sense of equality and individualism.
The short story, Boys and Girls was very interesting and suspenseful. Although, the young girl was not treated equally, she was able to prove to her family that she was capable of just as much as Laird.
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