Becoming Male or Female From birth onward, children are labeled as boys or girls and encouraged to learn sex appropriate behavior. Here we see the story of a little girl trying to find her place in life and society as she grows up stuck between two ideals to choose from. In "Boys and Girls" the character is a little girl who lives on a fox farm along with her little brother Laird and her mom. …showed first 75 words of 627 total…

…showed last 75 words of 627 total…complex issues present in the nurture vs. nature conflict of psychology by showing how a girl in the her conventional stage, at eleven years old is influenced into shaping her identity as a woman. In "Boys and Girls" the protagonist clearly identifies and imitates the behavior of the male parent, but with the lack of reinforcement towards her choice of identity, she can not prevail and is forced to comply with the norms of society.