c’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 …
“Gorilla, My Love” by Toni Cade Bambara and “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro are known as initiation stories. These kinds of stories usually end with the main character reaching a “moment of illumination” (p. 504). By the end of the story, they tend to either grow as a person or gain personal knowledge. “Gorilla, …
Perspective in telling a story is important since the story, as a whole, will be read and understood by the readers according to the perspective of the person narrating it. Jamaica Kincaid’s Girl and Alice Munro’s Boys and Girls are two stories about a girl experiencing a conflict as she leaves her childhood and …
Adolescence is the developmental period of transition between childhood and adulthood; it involves biological, cognitive and socio emotional changes. These changes transform the young person’s vision of the self into more complex, well- organized and consistent picture. Self-conception of adolescents changes in structure As well as content. Structurally it becomes more differentiated and organized. WHAT …
Conflict within “Boys and Girls” is alluded to by the Crimean war. While describing her house, the narrator mentions a “picture of the battle of Balaclava” which took place during the war. On a shallow level, this allusion could be interpreted as illustrating the narrator’s fantasy for adventure. In the stories she tells herself at …
