Boys and Girls by Alice Munro

Society is attempting to make many acceptable and unacceptable rules for individuals. People need to succumb to these pressures and fill social projected images, or rather resist and decide whether they want to maintain their self-image. In Alice Munroe, Munroe believes that this conflict is internal and external, is about the story of "boys and girls", the experience will be conquered in the life of people decide which of these forces . It is obvious that overcoming and replacing girls' self-image, in terms of experience, an unnamed hero in the story, social pressure is really powerful indeed.

Alice Munro's "boys and girls" theme is the theme of enlightenment and adult adults. This story depicts the limits of a girl who considers himself a girl. At the beginning of the story, the narrator wishes to partner with her father and want to keep the tomboy, but through her many experiences she will be like a more traditional rural housewife I started to realize what I expected. Likewise, her brother Laird also started, but he also longed for being a male. Narrator is not only when the event occurs, but also the translation of these events and also explains the impact on her life. Munroe 's story shows a struggle between the dream and the reality of enlightenment, based on gender stereotype of society.

In her story, boys and girls, Alice Munroe depicts a young adult narrator and her brother through a ceremony of suffering and success through her depiction afterwards. Through the narrator, the stereotype theme of gender 's character is deeply unfair, its influence on adulthood. The protagonist of Munroe 's story, whose identity is unknown, became an extreme and radical adult just like his older brother. Munro tries to ask gender stereotypes, the relationship and the loss of innocence of many children grow to adults, the courses tend to play extreme and have a role in conflict. According to the theme of Munroe Story, enlightenment and adulthood ceremonies are essential and necessary experience.

The story of James Joyce's "Araby" and Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls" has a common theme of growth. With both stories, the character recognizes who you are and who you want to do. They are all in the era of prioritizing actual strikes and meanings. Characters of both stories are done by rituals, but the way these revolutions occur is different for each person. In many ways, these stories can be seen differently from one another. The little boy lives in a suburban house, but there are no mothers or fathers, but there are guardians. He went out to play with his nearby friends. But he has no brothers and sisters. His revelation made him realize that the better of life is like a woman. He felt his friend was so bored that he did not want to play anymore. In addition, he looked up a young girl over the street in an unhealthy way. He seems to be able to grow into a mentally ill patient