English 160- Week Two

Jan 23, 2011 12:28

Week 2: Reflection

"Boys and Girls", by Alice Munro begins with the narrator describing her father and his work.  Her father is a fox farmer who raises silver foxes, which are skinned so that their fur can be sold to fur traders.  The narrator and her brother are extremely entreagued by their father's work.  Unlike their mother's work, which is ( Read more... )

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poppyxlemon January 24 2011, 18:32:48 UTC
I liked how you referred to the time setting of when the story takes place and that during the 1930s it is abnormal to have a young girl behaving like a boy and wanting to be outside doing the dirty work.

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