So i've decided to take a different path in life and start blogging about short stories instead of poems, not that stort stories are any better or more interesting but I just cam't take another poem! This one is intitled boys "Boys and Girls". When I think back, its amazing how many poems and stories i accually enjoyed, this story included. At first when I read this story the tittle made absolutly no sense to me at all, as i got closer to the end all the elements came together. Much like the poem "The woman in this poem" the protagonist doesn't have a name, she is just called "that girl". The fact that she doesn't have a name represents the role she plays in a mans world. Setting plays a mojor role in this story, it takes place on a fox farm. This girls father farmed foxes for their fur. the foxes where always kept in pins and cages they have lived the life that the father has made for them. When the foxes were freed from the pins they were releised out in the field were they where killed. The foxes didn't survive outside of the farm, the young girl felt the same way she couldn't imagine what life was like outside the farm and she felt that she wouldn't survive outside her comfort zone. This young girl loves helping her father with the foxes and she typically took on jobs that young girls normally wouldn't do, jobs that would be considered manly jobs. She was always trying to prove herself in a mans world, in return she was refered to as "just a girl". Her lack of name could represent her lack of worth in a mans world. People beleived that a girl would serve more purpose in the kitchen. Now days we see less and less of this behavior but there are obviously still people out there who beleive that woman can't do everything a man can do. The truth is woman CAN do everything a man can do and sometimes even better!!!

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