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The Oppression Of Women In Boys And Girls By Alice Munro

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Back in the 1900's women and men were looked upon differently, compared to today. Women were thought of only being good at cooking, cleaning, and watching kids. In differ to men , cause they are the hard workers and bread the winner of the family. Alice Munro wrote this story "Boys and Girls" to show us how women and men were thought as. The little girl in this story is confused and is trying to find out who is in many ways. The narrator of this story, is a little girl who trying to find herself in society and in her home. It takes place around the late 1940's She loves hanging out with her father and help in the barn with the foxes, but her mother thinks otherwise. She do not liked to be looked at as a girl a "The word girl had formerly
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