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Aug 31, 2023 · A short story by Alice Munro about a young girl who loves working with her father on a fox farm and resists her mother's expectations. The girl's identity and role are challenged when she lets a horse escape and her father calls her "only a girl".
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Read the short story by Alice Munro about a girl who grows up on a fox farm in Canada. She recalls her childhood fears, fantasies, and family secrets in this classic tale of rural life.
Summary: “Boys and Girls”. Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” was first published as an individual story in 1964 and was also included in Munro’s 1968 collection, Dance of the Happy Shades. The story takes place at one home in rural Canada, and the narrator, a soon to be 11-year-old girl, carefully describes her father’s work as a fox ...
Boys and Girls Short story by Alice Munro - Full Text My father was a fox farmer. That is, he raised silver foxes, in pens; and in the fall and early winter, when their fur was prime, he killed them and skinned them and sold their pelts to the Hudson's Bay Company or the Montreal Fur Traders. These companies supplied us with heroic calendars to
Boys and Girls" (1964/1968) is a short story by Alice Munro, the Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 which deals with the making of gender roles. [1] Synopsis [ edit ]
Dec 15, 2019 · A short story about a young girl who dreams of being a fox farmer and defying gender roles. She witnesses the killing of a horse named Flora and feels a connection with her, but also faces the consequences of her actions.
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A short story about a girl who resents the gender roles imposed on her by society and her family. The narrator contrasts her brother Laird, who is named after a lord, with her own inferior status and freedom.