Girls Can We Educate We Dads Analysis

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Although the poems “Girls Can We Educate We Dads” by James Berry and “At the Tourist Centre in Boston” by Margaret Atwood appear to be completely different works, both share the theme that everyone sees things differently through their own eyes. The female teen narrator of “Girls, Can We Educate We Dads” starts off by stating her dad’s opinion that “a girl walkin night street mus be bad” because “a girl is a girl.” She disagrees with her father, thinking “the world’s a free place” and wants to express her freedom because she is “a girl full of go.” She thinks her father is a “male chauvinist.” The Canadian narrator, which is the author, sees a version of Canada in photographs in a tourist centre in Boston that show Canada as glossy, quiet,