Literary analysis and "Boys and Girls"

At [unnamed college] I'm taking an Oral interpretation of Literature seminar this session, which is one-third about analyzing literature, along with english. That in mind, I ought to be analyzing literature like it's going out of style, right? Well, not so much in the first week.

If I were to develop a thesis for Boys and Girls, aside from "animal imagery contributing to the theme of freedom and imprisonment", I reckon I would write something like this: The family archetypes used by Alice Munro strongly influence character development in her initiation story, "Boys and Girls."

After presenting a thesis like that, I would then go on discussing how Alice Munro's character in the story relates positively to her father at some points in the story and negatively in others, and then articulate what elements of the father's archetypal character are responsible for that relation. Then, I'd do the same for the character's relation to the archetypal character of her mother. Lastly, to tie those relations in with the theme of initiation and growth, I would then go on to describe how the character's relation to her parents changes her and causes her to grow from what she is in the beginning of the story to what she is in the end of story. The final part of the analysis would involve how and if those changes constitute a proper initiation for the character.