“Boys and Girls”
The story “Boys and Girls” from Alice Munro is about a girl and her little brother Laird. The girl lives on a farm with her family and her father has a fox farm. The girl was in the beginning of the story more interested in the stereotypical work of the man and she hated working with her mum in the house. For her the work in the house was just boring and endless.
Instead of playing with dolls like other girls in her age, she helped her dad carrying the water for the foxes or she helped cutting the long-grass.
Within the time the girl starts changing her character even if she doesn’t want to. She starts decorating her room nicely and also the stories that she told herself every night changed. Usually she was the person in her stories that rescued other people but now she was the person that has to be rescued. The stories ends, when she opens a gutter instead of closing it to rescue a horse that her dad wants to shoot.
The story reminds me of a friend of mine, she also lived further away from a city and even later in school she always just played soccer or hockey with the boys. It was never really important to her to have nice clothes or dolls.
She was kind of like the girl in the story and she hated helping her mum, but she loved being outside and just helping her dad with the animals or other things.
What I really like about the story is how the character changes with the time. But it is not just the dynamic character; it is especially that the girl doesn’t want to change. Only our society just makes her change. The end of the story really made me a little bit sad because the girl was so special before she changed and also in the end the dad just says” she is just a girl” and he knew that she was not just a normal girl.
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