The Bible in “The Found Boat”

Alice Munro’s “The Found Boat” is a retelling of the Biblical tale of Noah’s ark where the trip that the children take ends up re-confirming the gender boundaries.
The flood, in one sense, can cause the demise of civilization or, the beginning of life. This flood in particular, brings Eva, Coral and the three boys together, similarly to how the flood in the bible brings God’s creations together. The quiet way that the children walked home with the boat can be seen as a unity like the animals would have had on the Ark.
[The boys] came carrying the boat, upside-down, and Eva and Carol walked behind, wheeling their bicycles. …This was not the way home for Eva or for Carol either, but they followed along. The boys were perhaps too busy carrying the boat to tell them to ...