We grow up through a lot of experiences, including good, bad, happy, sad, and others. Such experiences mature our characters. We are affected by various kinds of experiences to be adults. As we know, we have read two stories, ÃÂBoys and GirlsÃÂ written by Alice Munro and ÃÂGreasy LakeÃÂ written by T. Coraghessan Boyle. The common theme between those two stories is coming of age. Although both main characters in ÃÂBoys and GirlsÃÂ and ÃÂGreasy LakeÃÂ mature at the end, there is definite difference between two: the girlÃÂs coming of age is the one of limits, and the boysÃÂ coming of age is the one of choices.
The girl in ÃÂBoys and GirlsÃÂ has no choice but to change her mind. Before the girlÃÂs coming of age, she thought, ÃÂA girl was not, as I had supposed, simply what I was; it was what I had to becomeÃÂ (Munro 695).
Boys + Girls (EP)
Greasy Lake & Other Stories
Deutsch: T.C.Boyle, Aufgenommen auf der Leiziger B...Many children probably think the same as her. They are just what they are. In addition, she acted against what her grandmother said on purpose in the story. She didnÃÂt like to be a girl who adults think of as a girl. ChildrenÃÂs mind can be changed by their environment ÃÂ such as parents, experiences. After the happening that she opened the shutter to let Flora go, she became a different person. She became more a feminine girl who her mother and grandmother wanted her to be. She made her room ladylike, established like border with her brother, and came to see a heroine who is rescued from danger in her imagination when she tells herself stories in her bed. At the end of this story, her father said, ÃÂSheÃÂs only a girl,ÃÂ and she, who heard that, is depicted: ÃÂ[She] didnÃÂt protest that, even...