In almost every literary work, there is a lesson learned by the narrator of the story through other characters and/or occurring events. Two short stories that have this happen are Lan Samantha Chang’s “Water Names” and Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson.” In both of these stories, adults are teaching the lesson to the children. However, this lesson is taught in an entirely different approach in one story than it is in the other. Waipuo of “Water Names” requires thorough attention from her grandchildren and ignores all questions asked, leaving the children to come up with their own meaning of the story. On the other hand, Miss Moore of “The Lesson” answers all questions asked, and even asks questions to the children. It is clearly evident that Waipuo and Miss Moore have different teaching ethics. This is most likely because the children in both stories are different. However, the lesson taught in each story is the same—just in a different context.…
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.…
Honore de Balzac, a French novelist, once said, “Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact”. Tomson Highway’s story “Hearts and Flowers” relates the despairing experiences of an eight-year-old Cree boy whose personal achievement at a small-town music festival takes place on the same day that Parliament provides the franchise to Native people. To begin, the white people were ignorant towards the Native people. Secondly, the white people treated the Native people with a lack of respect. Finally, Native people are revoked from their right to vote as well as being thought of as non-human.…
“The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” is about a 14 year old boy who is a victim of a girl's beauty. He tries to win that said beauty, but he fails. The boy's conflict is catch the fish or catch the girl the resolution is he cuts the line, the girl ditches him, and he leaves with regret. He changes from a cowardly lamb to a courageous lion throughout the story. The theme is love can blind you from the beauty within it can also hide the ugliness. “There would be other Sheila Mants in my life, other fish, and though I came close once or twice, it was these secret, hidden tuggings in the night that claimed me, and I never made the same mistake again”(Wetherell 298).…
Hard work pays off eventually. We all have different struggles, but if you work hard it pays off. The short story "upon the water" by: Joanne Greenberg and poem "Debts" by: Karen Hesse shows readers that everyone needs help sometimes. Both authors develop the theme of hard work pays off.…
One point of similarities and differences would be the characters and the relationships that the characters have in both stories, Night and Life is Beautiful. For example, there is a father-son relationship in each of the stories. In Night, the father, Shlomo, and the son, Elie, have a very special bond of love and appreciation toward one another, just like Joshua and Guido do to each other in Life is Beautiful. However, the difference between the two would be that at around the end of the book of Night, Elie's feelings toward his father would change at one period in the story. The reader notices the change when he says “free at last!” (Wiesel 112), yet this change did not happen to Joshua and Guido in Life is Beautiful. By Elie’s change of feeling toward his beloved father, this could change how the reader feels about him whether it is a positive…
In the story “Here There Be Tigers”, there are multiple types of characters. There is the bossy and ignorant, but also the understanding and laid back. In the second story “Searching for Summer” there are the same element of characters. For example chatterton and Mr. Noakes are from two separate stories but have multiple of the same characteristics.…
Another difference in the stories is the intellectual distinction between them. The family in "The Veldt" is very high in…
For example, one story talks about a kids last day in school. The other story talks about an animal in a cage. One difference between the stories is one of the characters is leaving a cage the other is a kid trying to leave school as quick as possible. Another difference is one of the stories has dialogue and the other one doesn’t.…
To express this the characters have different names in both pieces for example George and Johnson. For example the novel said “ wine flask” and the short film said “ whiskey flask.” I believe they are different from each other because see the story differently from one another. Like in today's world I say tomato you say ta-ma-toes. Another example is two sports futbol and football they both sound the same and are sports but are played in two completely different ways. This show how we in life take one thing that we take in together but have different ideas and perspective on…
For my song I picked Garth Brooks “The River.” I consider this song to be very meaningful. This song is about chasing your dreams and never giving up on what you believe in, reminding us that life is shorter than we think and if we just stand on the shore watching the river go by, then life will be gone before we know it. Garth Brooks uses a lot of psychological concepts in this song, such as, Attitude, Affect, Motivation, Optimism, and Behavior. Garth Brooks says, “A dream is like a river.” A dream changes, just like a river changes. As life changes, the river can be calm then strong then calm again, so our path in life change. Garth Brooks says that “He will sail his vessel until the river runs dry.” To me this mean no matter what life throws…
Both making hard choices, the narrator in the story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” and the girl in the story “Boys and Girls” had character traits and personalities that contributed to their final decision. Both…
The short stories- "rules of the game" by Amy Tan and "sweet sixteen and never been kissed" by Ioda Munn, both have similarities and differences. The similarities are that the main characters in both theses short stories have to deal with conflict within their family. The differences are that how they deal with the different types of conflict within their family. There are many aspects, in which people could like or dislike the main characters.…
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.…
Personally, I don't like either of the narrators. The Writer seems to have made that intentional. Both short stories were written in a way that made it seem that the pace that each narrator was quick especially in Orientation by Daniel Orozco. Both narrators were giving quick and precise instruction to its listener in the short stories. Both came off a bit arrogant in the way they said it. In Girl, i specifically found it mean the way she asked if the person sings benna in Sunday school and then later said she would never sing benna in Sunday school as if to say she is better than that. In Orientation, the narrator is that person that knows everything about everyone in the office and what goes on with them. that interfering and arrogant person.…