My Sequel To The Short Story 'Boys And Girls'

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In my sequel to the short story, "Boys and Girls," I chose to retell the same story but changed the narrating voice. This minute change was one that had to be made for the reader to comprehend the story fully. When given a story called Boys and Girls, you would expect to get a narration and description of the quality of life from both, a boy and a girl, but in the original, we never get to see things from the male’s perspective. The clarity it produces is why I made the decision to alter the voice as it paints a full picture and allows for the audience to see the glaring contrast between the genders. In "Boys and Girls", we see how her parents continually push her away from participating in the masculine activities she enjoys but in my sequel,