Short story

2.  Gender Inequality explicitly deals with
social inequality and domination which
is “enacted, reproduced and resisted by
text and talk.” (van Dijk)

3. Traditional Gender
Roles:
 Society said that girls did the “inside”
house work and prepared the food, and
the men did the dirty “outside” jobs and
worked on the farm.

4. US & THEM:

6. “Why weren’t you watching him?”
It is a complaint made by her parents. They
scold her due to irresponsibility to take care off
her brother, while she herself is an immature girl.

7. Laird’s power as a male child:

10. WORD CHOICES:
• “Laird” means Lord- a name which conforms him as
a man of superior sex while the “girl” has secondary
importance.
• The father “raised” foxes keeping in a world
surrounded by a “high guard fence, like a medieval
town, with a gate that was padlocked at night.”
• During his meeting with wife, the father used to
wear his "stiff bloody apron on, and a pile of cut-up
meat in his hand."

11. Use of Adjectives:
• “Heroic calendars”, “cold blue sky”, “treacherous
rivers”, “magnificent savages”, “strong primitive
odour”, “penetrated”, “reassuringly seasonal”,
“derisive eyes”, “faulty machinery”

12. • "I had never disobeyed my father before.“
• The girl is "too used to seeing the death of animals.”
• “I put down my fork.”
• “My father scraped away delicately the little clotted
webs of blood vessels, the bubbles of fat.”

13. ALLUSIONS:
• Robinson Crusoe is a favorite book of her father.
• “Heroic Calendars” supplied by the Hudson’s Bay
Company or the Montreal Fur Traders and a picture of the
Battle of Balaclava hang on the walls of the kitchen.
• “King Billy” is another allusion which highlights her
interests in heroic wars and such dreams of male heroism
conforms her trust in male domain.

14. Use of Emotive Language:
• “A girl was not, as I supposed, simply what I was; it
was that I had to become.”
• “I was on Flora’s side… I did not regret: why she
came running at me and I held the gate open, that was
the only thing I could do.”