Essays on Boys and Girls

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…

The 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…

            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…

“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,…

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…