I found myself on the fence with the narrator, pondering the choices of a girl in a world of teenagers. Munro provokes thoughts about gender roles and parental pressure and how they can affect development. Girls are just as capable as boys, you just have to give them the chance. A Journey to the Coast A Journey to the Coast takes place in the nearby ghost town of Black Horse. The central Ontario setting Munro describes made me feel a sense of patriotic nostalgia. Munro paints a picture of the landscape clearer than a Group of Seven artist. The vivid description of the landscape around Back Horse made me think of my cottage. “People passing this way, on their way to the Muskoka lakes and the northern bush, may notice that here the bountiful landscape thins and flattens, worn bends of rock appear in the fields in decrease and the deep and harmonious woodlands of elms and elms. maples give way to a denser, less hospitable scrubby forest of birch, poplar, spruce and pine — where, in the heat of the afternoon, the pointy trees at the end of the road turn blue, transparent, retreating far away like a company of specters." (Munro