In “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” the boy must choose between his long time crush Sheila Mant‚ who despises fishing‚ and the fish. He just got this girl on a date after lusting after her for the longest time‚ but now he has caught a fish; it could be the biggest fish he has ever caught. The boy could choose the girl because he loves her. The boy watches her through the bushes and now knows all of her moods. He tries to catch her attention. He shows off for her‚ doing his best dives and strokes
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River‚ and Sheila Mant” is that it’s hard to truly love to different things with all your heart equally. You see this even in the first statement to a point‚ “There was a summer in my life when the only creature that seemed lovelier than a largemouth bass was Sheila Mant.” Also we see this when Sheila says “I think fishing is dumb…” when the main character clearly loves fishing more than anything except maybe Sheila herself. Right after that he decides that ‚for at least the time being‚ Sheila is more
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Acting On Impulse The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant by W. D. Wetherell‚ and Lamb to the Slaughter by Ronald Dahl display a theme of acting on impulse. This relates to our lives in many ways‚ In our everyday lives many things trigger us to act on impulse; when our parents chose to fight with us‚ we tend to ‘snap’ back‚ not thinking about how our actions could affect us in the long run. These stories share the theme of ‘acting on impulse’‚ even though they have different characters‚ settings
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Throughout the short story “The Bass‚ the River‚ and Sheila Mant” the boy must decide between the bass and Sheila. The boy will pick the bass for several reasons. The first reason he will chose the bass is he has a long history with bass. This quote proves this‚ “The bass was slanting towards the rocks on the New Hampshire side by the ruins of Donaldson’s boat house. It had to be an old bass-a young one probably wouldn’t have known the rocks were there. I brought the canoe back into the middle of
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and Sheila Mant” “The Bass‚ the River‚ and Sheila Mant‚” by W. D. Wetherell‚ is an initiation story in which the symbols of fishing and Sheila Mant illustrate how the character of the narrator transforms from youth and innocence to sophistication and maturity. At age fourteen‚ it is typical for a boy such as the narrator to be beginning this transformation. Being innocent and naïve in a sense‚ the fourteen year old narrator gets an enormous crush on a seventeen year old girl named Sheila Mant
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cold equation his major choice that will affect the main character for the rest of his days was life and death a similar choice was made in the pit and the pengilum‚ Gold rush was need over greed the list can go on. I picked the bass the river and Sheila Mant witch taught the audience about choosing childhood over manhood. It shows a boy in his mid teen years conflicted with fishing and his crush and must choose. The author must have written this story off of personal experience. He shows in detail on
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In the darkest time where he lost his will to live he still found joy in pottery and cross country. His passion is what kept him going during the toughest time in his life. In “ The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” the author‚ W.D Wetherell‚ states “ When I wasn’t swimming laps to impress Sheila‚ I was back in our driveway practicing casts‚ and when I wasn’t practicing casts‚ I was trying to line the Tosca‚ our springer spaniel‚ to test the reel’s drag‚ and when I wasn’t doing any of those things
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The choosie the boy has to make The story the bass the river and Sheila Mant by W.D. Wetherell it is about the boy making a choosie about catching the bass of his life and the big bass he has ever seen. And the other choosie he making is that he is keeping the girl of his dreams. This is about the boy who wants the girl sheila mant to be happy and she doesn’t like fishing. So he has and big bass on the line so he have to make a choosie the catch the fish of to not catch it and make the girl happy
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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
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In the stories that we read‚ many characters had to make hard choices. In the story “The Bass‚ the River‚ and Sheila Mant”‚ the narrator had to make a choice between getting a girl and getting a once in a lifetime catch. In the story “Boys and Girls”‚ the girl had to choose between accepting the society’s view of a girl or her own definition of a girl. Making a choice that would change her future forever‚ the girl‚ once completely against anything feminine‚ made the harder choice by accepting society’s
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