Boys and Girls By Alice Munro (Grades 10+)

Canadian author Alice Munro is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her short story "Boys and Girls" follows an unnamed young girl as she navigates the expectations and limitations placed upon her while she works with her father on a rural farm. The use of characterization and symbolism in this story depicts the narrator's difficulty of developing her unique identity when she is forced to comform to inevitable gender roles.