Summary Of Boys And Girls By Alice Munroe

Freedom is to have the power to do whatever your heart desires without any hindrances. In the story “Boys and Girls” by Alice Munroe, the narrator realizes the idea of freedom and the lack of it. She seems to define freedom as free will. As a young girl growing, she was allowed to do anything and everything. The narrator spent most of her time outside with her dad in the field, whereas other girls her age had to help out in the house. That was her freedom. In her limited world, the narrator feels the animals and her mom are not free, and she and the other males are. The foxes in her farm were barricaded from their natural habitat and had to live in cages. The horses were confined to their barn. The narrator’s mother is not free because she