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Boys and girls
Title: Boys and girls
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1032 | Pages: 4.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Boys and girls
Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls"
Alice Munro's short story, "Boys and Girls," has a very interesting
detail written into it. The narrator's brother is named Laird, which was
carefully chosen by the author. Laird is a synonym for lord, which plays a
important role in a story where a young girl has society's unwritten rules
forced upon her. At the time of the story, society did not consider men and
women equal. The name symbolized …showed first 75 words of 1032 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1032 total…her brother symbolize the roles of males and females in that society. The
narrator is forced into doing jobs that she doesn't enjoy doing, namely that
associated with women's work at the time. Laird is allowed to do what he
pleases. Laird is the lord, as a male he is deemed as the more important of the
two, simply because of his sex, while the narrator cast into her womanly role,
being of secondary importance.
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