“The Found Boat” by Alice Munro is the story of five teenagers who learn to explore and experience a sense of freedom after finding a boat stranded after a flood. The boat becomes a common ground used between the characters to become closer friends and explore things in the world around them. This boat that they find gives these children a new form of freedom and they accept it. When the boat was found by the girls the boys didn't see it at first, after finding it they became closer friends and this new friendship takes the teenagers on an adventure. Not only do they find a boat and repair it, but they also use that boat to guide them into new territory with the opposite sex. This boat gives them the freedom to do that. Alice Munro's "The Found Boat" is told in the third person, mainly because you are only aware of a few of the characters' thoughts and feelings. Although several characters are used in this story, the girls seem to be the two characters that the story revolves around the most. The characters in “The Found Boat” are Eva, Ca...