Comparing and Contrasting Themes Essay
Love has a variety of effects on people. When it is pure it can change people for the better and heal their pain. “Catch the Moon” was written by a Puerto Rican American woman and is set in the Caribbean Hispanic Barrio. “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” is written by a Caucasian man from New Hampshire and is set in a New England summer home waterfront community. In “Catch the Moon” and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” The main character a teenage boy, believes himself to be in love with a beautiful girl he just met. However, In “Catch the Moon,” Luis feelings for Naomi redeem him by inspiring to return to acts of goodness. In “The Bass, The River and Sheila Mant,” The fourteen year old boy realizes that “loving” one for their looks is shallow and futile. These lessons to be learned in these stories are exceedingly important to know, especially as one grows into a young adult.
In the story “The bass, the River and Sheila Mant” the narrator learns a valuable lesson the hard way. The main character is a boy who loves to fish. The boy falls in love with a girl named Sheila Mant but she hates fishing. He decided to take Sheila out on a canoe, on a date, and ends up accidently catching a bass. He could tell that it is bigger than anyone he ever caught before. He decides to let the bass go and later regrets his actions. In the story the main character says “There would be other Sheila Mants in my life, other fish, and though I came close once or twice, it was these secret, hiding tuggings in the night that claimed me, and I never made the same mistake again”. In the beginning he would have done anything to be with that girl. By the end the character changes because he realizes not to give up something he loves for a girl who is ungrateful. This gives up his number one passion to just have a chance with her. For hundreds of
years men have always did foolish things for women. We might learn this lesson but it is a much harder and different thing to
In the story “The bass, the River and Sheila Mant” the narrator learns a valuable lesson the hard way. The main character is a boy who loves to fish. The boy falls in love with a girl named Sheila Mant but she hates fishing. He decided to take Sheila out on a canoe, on a date, and ends up accidently catching a bass. He could tell that it is bigger than anyone he ever caught before. He decides to let the bass go and later regrets his actions. In the story the main character says “There would be other Sheila Mants in my life, other fish, and though I came close once or twice, it was these secret, hiding tuggings in the night that claimed me, and I never made the same mistake again”. In the beginning he would have done anything to be with that girl. By the end the character changes because he realizes not to give up something he loves for a girl who is ungrateful. This gives up his number one passion to just have a chance with her. For hundreds of
years men have always did foolish things for women. We might learn this lesson but it is a much harder and different thing to