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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Once upon a time‚ there was a girl named Sheila Dinh. Her personality can be described as enigmatic: content yet distressed‚ intelligent yet lacking common sense‚ sagacious yet puerile‚ confident yet feeble‚ fashionable yet basic‚ social yet antisocial‚ and the list goes on. Someone who knows her--as in someone who spends most of their waking moments to communicate with this young one--would say she is the most perplex being on Earth. Perhaps‚ such a bizarre statement is an exaggeration. However
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However‚ in accordance to the short story “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant”‚ written by W. D. Wetherell‚ the main character reflects at the end of the narration about how he feels. He continues to say‚ “There would be other Sheila Mants in my life‚ other fish‚ and I thought 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
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In their relationship Gerald treats Sheila as if she is more like a possession than a person that he loves and is planning on marrying. This is typical behaviour of the Edwardian period‚ women were usually treated as if they belonged to the man‚ especially when they were married. This is evident when Gerald says “I think miss Birling ought to be excused any more of this questioning‚” this shows is that Gerald is speaking good Sheila. Sheila is not allowed to voice her own opinion because as a woman
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a fourteen year old boy is faced with a difficult choice. The narrator can not decide weather to go for the girl or follow what he is most passionate about‚ fishing. After realizing the truth about Sheila‚ he realizes his passion is more important to him. In the story‚ “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” W. D. Wetherell uses the romantic canoe trip to show how the setting help creates the conflict in the story‚ he also uses the conflict to show how it creates theme. Also the author stated ‚ “
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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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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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CORAL EUGENE WATTS Carl Eugene Watts was born in Killeen‚ Texas to Richard Eugene Watts and Dorothy Mae Young. His father was a private first class in the Army‚ and his mother was a kindergarten art teacher. When Watts was less than two years of age‚ his parents separated and he was raised by his mother. Watts and his mother moved to Inkster‚ Michigan‚ and in 1962‚ Dorothy Mae married a mechanic named Norman Caesar with whom she had two daughters. As a child‚ Watts was described as being strange
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when this tactic fails. QUOTE. The lowest and worst class is the Working class. These people lived unprotected‚ dangerous lives with no hope for their future. This is the social class to which Eva Smith belongs. With both her parents dead‚ unlike Sheila‚ she is forced to
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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
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