Head Boy

Ever since the day we are conceived in our mothers wound the question everyone asks is whether the baby will be a boy or a girl. The sex of the baby is represented by the reproductive organs the baby has and that determines whether the baby is a boy or a girl. It’s the biological determination whether the baby has a XX or XY chromosome that overall determines the sex. It also is linked later on in the child’s life when they go through puberty and start noticing changes in their voices or their…

getting into a fistfight with Wayne. Andy’s conflict occurs when she realizes that she is no longer a child, and she cannot continue to play and act like a boy. She is embarrassed when her father’s friend Charlie questions and provokes her about her gender and behavior. “Charlie Spoon was still grinning. ‘So What are you gonna be, Andrea? A boy or a girl?’ ‘I’m a girl,’ She said” (114, 115) This conversation shows that she has decided that although she likes to spend time with her father,…

Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” contains several short stories each containing their own morals. Two of these stories are “The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and "Good Country People", both of these stories take place in the South and revolve around a seemingly innocent man who ends up taking advantage of a young woman. In “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, a man wanders to the house of an elderly woman willing to help out for no pay, and eventually is married to her daughter…

individual identity. Commonly, we hear that boys are not supposed to cry, play with dolls, wear dresses, just as girls are not to play sports or video games, be dirty, or play with action figures. Boys are not tempted to read a story if they know it involves a princess or seems “girly”, since most cannot relate. Society presses the idea that boys cannot like princesses, so most do not even care or simply look past it. Throughout the story you see few young boys, and of course those in the story…

Ma and Papa had and still have a very large part of my heart. They were my everything. Ma and I went to temple every Tuesday evening. I never understood anything I learned, but these shared occasions brought Ma and I closer together. She taught me the basic and most important things that would later shape my being. She trained me to excel in school and was not afraid to discipline me when she saw fit. She loved me with everything she had and truly made me feel safe. Papa also did the same. He…

evaluation utilized a female as their lead character. In Amazing Grace not only is the lead character a young African American girl most of the characters in the story are either girls or women. There is only one boy, a classmate of Grace’s that is given a line in the story though other boys are shown in Grace’s class. The remaining twenty books are split six books feature a male as their lead character and the remaining six focused on either an entire family or had a pair of leads, one male…

adorable place holders to stand by while the boys take charge of the situation. This continues on into adulthood where in movies women are usually portrayed as harmless housewives or the sexy girl next door, both are just as degrading. While considering all the background characters played by girls Pollitt claims, “Boys are the norm, girls the variation; boys are central, girls peripheral; boys are individuals, girls types…. Girls exist only in relation to boys “ (545). It is time that this…

were usually separated between boys, girls, and for all genders. You can tell by the color of the aisle. The girl aisle was mostly done in pink and purple. The boy aisle was mostly done with blue and green. I even noticed that the writing on the packages were even different. The girl toys had a more feminine writing and the boy toys were in a bold, manly writing. The girl toys usually had a picture of a girl playing with the toy and with the boy toys they had a little boy playing with it. For…

In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told of a young boy who leaves his old life in search of independence and adventure. Throughout the story, Huck along with a runaway slave named Jim encounter many adventures. Through these experiences Huck matures, learning about life and what it means to be a good person. Throughout the novel, Huck develops and grows as a character. In the beginning of the novel Huck is unsure of himself and of what is right and wrong. This is shown…

with a character named Ennis del Mar who is unwilling and unable to reach for his heart’s desire, a man named Jack Twist. Jack and Ennis meet when they are both young men, having grown up in almost identical situations. Both were high-school country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough- mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life. Both are real cowboys, both are also living the life expected of them including dating and having sex with women; at this…