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In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls,” there is a time line in a young girl’s life when she leaves childhood and its freedoms behind to become a woman. The story depicts hardships in which the protagonist and her younger brother, Laird, experience in order to find their own rite of passage. The main character, who is nameless, faces difficulties and implications on her way to womanhood because of gender stereotyping. Initially, she tries to prevent her initiation into womanhood by resisting her parent’s

Neither child has an interest in the work of their parent of the same gender; Laird runs off to play instead of helping with the foxes, and the narrator escapes from the kitchen the first chance she gets (Munro 495). Later in the story, however, Laird begins to take an interest in the men’s work of hunting and killing the horse, and the narrator, while not yet embracing the work of her mother, is disengaging herself

through the mother and grandmother as well as the horse Flora. Alice Munro displays theme of uneven genders through the narrator’s younger brother Laird and how the narrator is unnamed throughout the story. The name Laird is a synonym for “Lord” and the word Lord means someone with power and superiority. This symbolizes how Laird is superior to narrator and seen

Not Your Internet- Service Provider” and “The Dog Ate My Flash Drive, and Other Tales of Woe”; both essays are written in first person and incorporate opinions on the excuses that students have given in the past. In the first story written by Ellen Laird, an author that has thirty years of experience being an educator and essayist explains the difficulties of how online classes differ from face-to-face classes. In the other story written by Carolyn Foster Segal, the author talks about the many excuses

used to reinforce the overall message and give the text more meaning. Laird, Flora, and the silver foxes are all examples of said symbolism, which emphasizes the challenges that the narrator faces as a result of gender inequality. Throughout the story, Laird is used as a tool of symbolism to further illustrate the discrepancy between genders; in this specific instance, a sister and a brother. Despite a continuous notion that Laird “[is]

from the window. Lily let out a cry of distress. “Mairi, for the love of our Lord! Yer hands are freezing.” Lily grimaced. Mairi ignored her. “I dinnae care if me hands are made of ice blocks,” she scolded. “It’s nae seemly for the daughter of the laird to be poking her head out tae window, goggling. Yer still in your chemise!” Lily scowled. “I thought I heard horses. Is it them, come to take me away?” Mairi was busy selecting a gown for Lily. “Ach, should ye wear the blue, or the green? The blue

Provider”, Laird lays out her laundry list of disadvantages of being an online teacher. She talks about the ways online students take advantage of taking a class online as to a traditional class. Laird mentions the difference of both online and traditional teaching, “If faculty members, whether well established or new, are to succeed in online teaching, they must be prepared for attitudes and behaviors that permeate Web use but undermine teaching and learning in the Web classroom” (Laird 4). On the

not the only one coming to terms with their identity. Her younger sibling Laird is growing an inclination to do the manly things over the house. The storyteller catches her mom addressing her dad articulating, “Wait till Laird gets bigger you will have some real help” (156). This speaks to the claim family's inborn desires of Laird to emulate his dad's example. "The girl" clearly detected their better anticipations for Laird and her desire started to uncover. She then

The readings of “Hairball” by Margaret Atwood as well as “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munro, both display the many different elements of identity and equality in our society today. Both of these tales hold stimulating and fascinating written content along with interesting elements of its written language. The reading of “Hairball” by Margaret Atwood is an interesting and intriguing short story that has lots of detail written into it. This short story starts off with Kat bringing home her tumor, which

Within the short fiction "What You're Ready For," by John Gould, Dr. Laird embodies the theme of living entirely in the present and it leads to his demise. He states that in life there is nothing but "the here, the now." (245) and with that one's perception of life must match. This means that a person must leave their thoughts of old and eliminate those of what may come, they can only contemplate on those of the current stream of consciousness as it enters. He goads the audience into a sense of empowerment