Instead she is sided with only her self, do to all of her family waiting for her to give up the tom boy phase. ... To her a day in the yard carrying around a wheel barrel of water to feed the fox's beats a day in the kitchen by far. ... Among the facts that laird is getting older and her mother wants her in the kitchen the narrator feels as if she belong in the yard. Constantly doing work and taking on the role of a young boy she tries to prove she is worthy of a man's work. ... In one split second she changes from that moody tom boy into a caring young girl who only wants flora ...

• Word Count: 816
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Only when the "light from the kitchen windows filled the areas" (1) where the characters able to visualize the activities of the boy's uncle and the 'dark form' of Mangan's sister. ... The final despair is the condition of the boy himself. ... The light, happy story of the young boy in love never came to be. ... The lady is in petty conversations and is completely ignoring the boy. ... The final defeat of the story is that the boy simply gives up. ...

• Word Count: 1460
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The former tenant of the boy's house was a priest. The boy describes the rooms in the house, as well as the room the priest died in, saying, "Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers"(Vesterman 8). ... Joyce often describes many things in the boy's life as being dark. ... As the boy arrives at Araby, he finds that it is deserted. ... The young woman approaches the boy and asks if he wishes to buy anything. ...

• Word Count: 1286
• Approx Pages: 5

The first question in people's mind is, do you want a boy or a girl? ... If it's a boy he will grow up to become a firefighter just like his grandfather or a lawyer or possibly run his own company. ... A person can be born with girl or boy characteristics, or probably both. ... At home girls are seen with their mothers cooking in the kitchen, helping out with the laundry, or assisting with the care of their younger siblings. ...

• Word Count: 907
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The girl uses the doll and kitchen appliances in preparation for what lies ahead in her future of becoming a wife and mother.  ... The girl in "The Leap" had caught the boy's attention, but she did not even realize it. ... The narrator mentions, "of the playground some boy who did not depend, on speed of foot, caught and betrayed her" (Dickey), which focuses on the girl struggling  with the past from the boy's betrayal  on the "passionless playground" from which she never was able to recover. ...

• Word Count: 783
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Are you a boy or a girl? ... If a girl goes out to play with the boys, she is called a "tom boy." ... Television shows such as "Leave it to Beaver", gives viewers representation of the perfect family and you will notice that the mom is always in the kitchen. ... Boy Stuff" (Kantrowitz 443). ... The boy gets dirty and the mom washes his clothes. ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

If it is a boy the adjectives to describe him range from handsome to brave and strong. ... Girls are generally seen with domestic toys such as dolls and kitchen play sets. ... Perhaps it is because ever since the early childhood , the boy is given toys that allow him to exercise his strengths and develop the body he will have when older rather than the sitting" pretty toys girls are given which are only to be played while calmly sitting at a table or beside a play crib. ...

• Word Count: 1516
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the story leading up to the scene when she and her father are in the pens, you are lead to believe that she is a boy, until a short exchange of words with a feed salesman who inquires about her. ... She felt that working in the kitchen was endless, depressing and unimportant compared to the work she did for her father. ...

• Word Count: 1491
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School