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Alice Munro boys and girls

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  In the story, "Boys and Girls" Alice Munro describes the need and successes of the passage into adulthood through her views of a young narrator and her brother. Through the narrator, the subject of unfairness of sex-role stereotyping, and the effect this has on the passage into adulthood is presented. The protagonist in Munro's story, goes through an extreme and radical initiation into adulthood, similar to that of her younger brother. Munro proposes that gender stereotyping, relationships, and innocence play an extreme, and controversial role in the growing and passing into adulthood for many young children. Showing the rite of passage into adulthood, according to the theme of Munro's story, mandatory and necessary experience.
  Alice Munro's creation of an unnamed and undignified, female protagonist proposes that the narrator is without identity or the prospect of power. The narrator, the young brother Laird is named and implies by his gender alone, with identity and is to become a master. Growing up, the narrator loves to help her father outside with the foxes, rather than to aid her mother with "dreary and peculiarly depressing" work done in the kitchen (748). In this escape from her destined duties, the narrator looks upon her mother's assigned tasks to be "endless," while she views the work of her father as "ritualistically important" (748). This view illustrates her happy childhood, filled with dreams and fantasy...