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In her story, Boys and Girls, Alice Munro depicts the hardships and successes of the rite
of passage into adulthood through her portrayal of a young narrator and her brother.
Through the narrator, the subject of the profound unfairness of sex-role stereotyping, and
the effect this has on the rites of passage into adulthood is presented. The protagonist in
Munros story, unidentified by a name, goes through an extreme and radical initiation into
adulthood, similar to that of her younger brother. Munro proposes that gender
stereotyping, relationships, and a loss of innocence play an extreme, and
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