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The Bass The River And Sheila Mant Summary
The influence of gender is when someone of the opposite gender causes someone to act a certain way or make a decision based on what they think. In The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant, a young boy and girl, named Sheila, are impacted with impressing the opposite gender. The author, W. D. Wetherell, touches on peer pressure and the influence of gender and how they cause the boy to make a bad decision. People always make decisions or act a certain way caused by the influence of the opposite gender. He feels he needs to impress Sheila, which causes him to make a poor decision that he regrets.
As stated in the definition, the main character acted a certain way because he was influenced by Sheila, and that he thought he had to impress her. For

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