LBravo - Homework 07/03/2019

BOYS AND GIRLS

1.

• I think it will be about gender differences.

2.

• People around the girl are convinced that the term “girl” means behaving in a certain mode, and consequently want her to avoid some tomboy behaviors.

• The girl, even after her grandmother reproaches, continues to behave how she used to before.

• She opened Flora's gate as wide as she could.

• She makes her room fancy, spreading the bed with old lace curtains and creating a dressing table.

• She doesn't sing anymore because her brother has told her she sounded silly.

• In her stories now she is rescued by a boy, and a great length of them concerns what she looks like.

3.

• It seemed to her an unburdened and innocent world.

Now she means that she has to behave in a certain way.

They sound so reproachful because they have a completely different vision from the protagonist.

She doesn't feel at ease with this definition.

• It is a symbolic action because once and again she “breaks the rules”.

• Her rearrangement of the room symbolizes a inner change in her: she starts becoming a “real” girl.

• Before they sang at night because they were both children; now it seems silly to them because they are no more bonded by a lot of similarities as before.

• I think there is a sort of separation starting between them, because she is becoming more “girly”, so, being no more a tomboy, she's very different from her brother.

• Before, she was the only heroine; now, sooner or later, she's saved by a boy.

• I think that the society had the greatest role in transforming the girl, indeed, as Margaret Mead said, we are “cultural products” and the two genders are socially connoted. I think that now she's not happy as before, because she's no more spontaneous.

4.

• I think that gender roles have become more malleable today, but they are still present and exercise a great influence on us (for example, boys are still afraid to cry in public because they don't want to appear weak).

5.

• Yes, I have. When I was at a dinner out with my relatives, my mother told me to eat slower and placidly, and from that moment on, when I am with some adults out, I behave like she told me.