Girls are often raised with the idea that “men will always protect them”, that we may be lesser than or less capable than boys. In “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, she criticizes this metanarrative by shifting the positions of power between an innocent young girl and a deceased grown man. In my collage, I depicted scenarios I have personally experienced. Situations where I’ve been told I couldn’t do certain things because I was a girl, despite clearly being able to. Scenarios where girls are implicitly led to believe that they are not as strong, or even inferior to boys. Why must girls always…