45 pages 1 hour read

Alice Munro

Boys And Girls

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1964

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Essay Topics

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Although the narrator seems to gain some kind of understanding of a new role by the end of the story, how would you describe the change that occurs in her? Does she seem confident in a new position? Has she lost, or gained, identity by the end of the story?

2.

How do animals relate to humans across the story? 

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What are the natural life cycles that Munro uses to tell the story of “Boys and Girls”? Do they seem “natural” to the narrator? Why or why not?

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