Comparing Girl 'And If'

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In both Girl and If there are many similarities,but with those similarities there also are differences that have to go with the similarities,so I am going to cover a couple of the differences and similarities involved in Girl and IF.
In Girl it is an Adult telling a child what their chores and jobs are like during a week and reminding the child what she needs to do to be a nice Woman.On the other hand in IF the Adult is telling a child what hardships they are going to have to go through in life and the difficult moments in life that people don't like. In both texts they are explaining what you need and what it means to be a good average human being.In Girl the child is talking back to the Mom and saying that she doesn't do the bad stuff that

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