The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant is a short story about lost love, realization, moving on, but most of all, letting go of what you love. The readers follow along as our fourteen-year-old narrator falls for 17 year-old Sheila Mant during a Vermont summer. The author reveals the theme throughout the use of characterization, plot, irony, imagery, and many more. Throughout the story, the narrator is trying to woo Sheila and takes her on a boat ride up to a concert. But, just as things were going swimmingly, our narrator realizes he didn't pull up his line he has under the boat. This normally wouldn't have been a problem, as he would usually have been able to reel it in, but everything changed after Sheila said that she didn't like fishing.…
Lucretia Coffin Mott was born on January 3, 1793, to Quaker parents in Nantucket, Massachusetts. When she was 13, her parents decided to send her to a co-ed school in New York. She ended up meeting her future husband, James Mott at this school. From 1808 to 1810, Lucretia got the job as an assistant teacher at Nine Partners school. During this time, her family moved to Philadelphia, where she would live for the rest of her life.…
The central idea for the essay “ Ongoingness” is that when we are recording things with writing or with photography, we aren’t experiencing the moments. As stated by Sarah Manguso in the essay,” The trouble was that I failed to record so much. I’d write about a few moments, but the surrounding time- there was so much of it! So much apparent nothing I ignored, that I treated as empty time between the memorable moments.” Manguso was explaining how she was only focused on the beginning and the end, she wasn’t focusing on the middle, which is the actual experience. Also,“ the diary becomes ‘ a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.’ “ When we tell or write stories, we sometimes leave out important parts of the story that we don’t…
Despite the fact that I, Maggie McCormick, am not the most talented musician out of my fellow sopranos, I believe that I should be permitted to attend the choral festival because it would help me to grow as a musician, it would be a great opportunity for me to develop greater bonds with my fellow attendees, and it would be a fantastic learning experience to hear the way each choir from the southeast sounds.…
I am reading “The Bass, the River, and Shelia Mant” by W.D. Wetherell. This story is about the narrator who likes a older girl and asks her on a date. When she accepts they go in a canoe to the dance and he hooks a Bass and has to choose. In this journal I will be questioning and connecting. I am wondering weather or not the narrator will choose Shelia or the Bass. I will also be connecting a decision where it ended up in regret.…
There are many challenges that can arise when writing a paper. One of these challenges is having an unclear thesis. When your thesis is unclear, it does not give consideration to the needs and the knowledge of the reader, it does not fulfill your purpose as being a writer, it does not include a clear and definite point, nor does it provide support that explains and proves the main point. This causes confusion for a reader and you may lose his or her attention. Another challenge that might arise is when you have a fragment sentence in the sentences in your paper. A fragment is a group of words that is missing a subject or a verb or that does not express a complete thought. A fragment is…
Even though Sheila is traumatized by her own act for over fifty years, she manages to reveal the truth to Bridie, which in itself is a huge difficulty, but still very definitively she retorts that “I’d do it all again, if I had to.” This shows that even after all the physical and psychological hardships encountered during the war, Sheila is still willing to make heroic sacrifices for Bridie. This use of language helps the audience to experience empathy for Sheila who sacrificed the only thing that was a sacred asset to…
Michelle Obama once said “you can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.” A similar choice was made by a young boy, in the short story The Bass, The River, And Sheila Mant by WD Wetherell. A tug-of-war occurring within the narrator between, the bass that represents who the narrator really is and what he enjoys doing, while Sheila Mant represents love and concealment of what he really is.…
Jacqueline Kennedy once said, “One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness” (Anzia). Jackie Kennedy faced many great ordeals in her lifetime. When she was a child, her parents divorced, which was unusual for the time period. The separation of her parents led to Jackie becoming closed off. When Jackie Kennedy was married to John F. Kennedy, she had a miscarriage, a stillbirth, and a baby who died shortly after birth. Jackie Kennedy also had to face the death of her husband, from a communist killer. All the events that took place in Jacqueline Kennedy’s life led to how she handled her husband’s presidency and his assassination.…
Margaret Fuller was a multifaceted woman who in reality did not fit into the period of which she was born. However, the obstacles and difficulties women faced during the 1800s, if they choose to be more than just a domestic worker, is exactly what shaped her into a prominent female figure. Margaret Fuller would go on to become an icon in the New England Transcendentalist movement, an editor of the first avant-garde intellectual magazine in America, an author and the first foreign correspondent, male or female, for an American newspaper.[1] Her achievements stemmed from her ability to reinvent herself to fit in with the prospects and changes that came her way. Margaret believed that more than one phase of character could be shown in one life time, often referring to herself as a “chameleon”, meaning that she had the capability of adapting to changes. In a world with limited opportunities for a woman she would break all the rules and prove to many that women could indeed overcome any obstacle.…
The New Woman was conveyed through the artists illustrations beginning in the 1880’s and continuing through the years, ending in the 1920’s. These images such as the works titled, “What Are We Coming To”, “In a Twentieth Century Club”, “Picturesque America”, and “Women Bachelors In New York”, all conveyed this idea of a “New Woman”. The qualities that a New Woman must have included a woman who pursued the highest education and made effort to move up in the professional world. “She (the New Woman) also demonstrated new patterns of private life, from shopping in the new urban department stores, to riding bicycles, and playing golf.” (pg. 374) The artists attempted to create this perfect all around woman who’s lives closely resembled what the men of that time were doing. Such as in figure 6.8 titled “In a Twentieth Century Club” which shows women dressed in clothing which closely resembled that of a mans attire for that era, at leisure, socializing with other woman. This “club” looked very similar to a men’s drinking and eating club. “ Although role reversal still provides the humor, the women waitresses and patrons are physically attractive, while the women’s unladylike posture and clothing would have been viewed as shocking equally significant is the cross dressing entertainer.” (pg. 374) Not only did artists attempt to convey a way that the New Woman should act, but they also created this popular physical image of what one should look like such as the Gibson Girls pictured in image 6.9. Most all of the illustrations showed a white woman of the leisure class, however African American women still envisioned and strived to become a New African American Woman.…
From the very beginning, Indira Gandhi was deep-rooted into a family of political background, especially with her father who was a Prime Minister named Jawaharlal Nehru. Independent and intelligent were the top qualities of Indira Gandhi, the third prime minister of India, following her father who was the first. Under difficult circumstances throughout India and various other nations, Indira Gandhi was a dominant woman in the history of India who successfully took charge as a Prime Minister, fueled with substantial amount of political knowledge/first-hand experience from Jawaharlal Nehru and one of which created peaceful resolutions within the nations of India. Indira was the right woman to be chosen for her job who…
Indira Gandhi, the first women prime minister of India inspires me. When I read her life story I started to venerate her. It is a truth that I adopted her single actions in my life. She was called the “child of revolution” by her grand father when she was born. She has proved it by changing the face of India. I got influenced by her actions, life styles and her way of behavior. To my surprise, I have adopted her qualities like being a voracious reader, brave and friendly. Her aspect was to do right things without fearing any body; which created a good determination in my life.…
The little man who comes to the girl's aid each night and spins the straw into gold is very greedy. He takes no pity on the girl and her plight, but asks each time what she will give him if he helps her. He takes the only two…
Indira Gandhi (No relation to Mohandas Gandhi) was a strong political activist throughout her life, even in her childhood Indira would prove that what was most important to her was her country, her people and the freedom of both. To better understand the Indira Gandhi’s methodology and political contributions, it is necessary to first analyze the political state of her country, as well as her background and career as a whole.…
