Sheila Mant Comparison

Everyone has a desire, something that they want to achieve or obtain for them. Whether it is ethical or immoral, having desires is almost inevitable. Sometimes these desires make people go through tough times. Tragic occurrences such as death and broken relationships shape the lives of people positively or negatively. In the following essay, “Many Rivers to Cross” and the short stories, “Two Kinds” and “Everyday Use”, the protagonists of these texts struggle to achieve their desire, but because of those struggles the main characters do eventually come to a revelation.

“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 and comes to believe she is what he loves most in life. For him, Sheila is a symbol of the maturity and sophistication he will eventually become a

There are many people that are mean, selfish, and kill for money. In “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”, Sheila Mant is one of the mean and selfish people. In this story, Sheila exhibits laziness, not caring about anybody but herself, and using people. All of these characteristics are exhibited through indirect characterization. That shows, better than direct characterization, what type of person Sheila Mant is.

In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, we are given a piece of art that simply will leave you clueless unless, you understand the pain and frustration the man is going through; when choosing what route he feels will give him the most joy. In the poem a man is walking through the woods and he comes upon a fork. He who wants to take both roads chooses the route that he feels is traveled less on. Little does he know that both road have been equally traveled on. He who travels on the route that has fresher leaves lies to himself, by convincing himself that he will come back and take the other route. Though it was a very stressful and a hard decision for the man to make, many people are put into very similar situations like in John Updike’s A and P and as well as in James Joyce’s Eveline. Both Sammy and Eveline find it troubling to make a decision that will change their life completely.

In both works, “The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K Leguin and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, the authors show sacrifice. This essay will compare the differences and similarities in the stories, and how these sacrifices add to the fulfillment of their lives, success, and happiness.

Ultimately, Jeremy and Eckels’ purposes are identical and yet their outcomes vary drastically. Both Jeremy and Eckels are adventurous and stepping into alternate worlds seems to be an amazing opportunity. However, as time goes on the consequences start to present themselves to Eckels, who eventually learns the jeopardies of the Safari, in contrast to the hope and promise of a new life for Jeremy in Nethergrave. Gloria Skurzynski sci-fi short story “Nethergrave” and “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury share many similarities even though one alternate world is a dream come true while the other is a true

In the section “On the Rainy River” from the novel The Things They Carried, author Tim O’Brien describes his difficulty in choosing between going to war or going to Canada. O’Brien implements many different rhetorical and stylistic strategies to express his dilemma. His use of juxtaposition, rhetorical questions, and somber diction enhance his frustration of his two choices. O’Brien uses juxtaposition to compare his option of running away to Canada with what he would rather do: live his life. O’Brien describes a scene he has imagined of himself running away.

I have read “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherell. The story is about a 14 year old boy who has to pick between a girl and fishing. In this journal, I will be questioning the narrators regretful decision and connecting to my regretful choice.

Everybody knows that feeling when you like a girl or a boy. You get nervous around them, can not think clearly around them. Both pieces of writing speak to this feeling. In the short story The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant the narrator states “ the only creature that seemed lovelier to me then a largemouth bass was sheila mant” (Wetherell 245). That statement shows us that she means alot to him because fishing was everything to him and he put her above it. The poem It’s Raining in Love, talks about these feeling as well. Richard Brautigan express this feeling when he says “ I don’t know what it is, but I distrust myself when I start to like a girl a lot” ( Brautigan 251). The short story and the poem have a very similar theme, they both

Throughout the short story “Sheila Mant”, the boy must decide between the bass and Sheila. ……… First of all, as the main character tries to secretly reel in the big bass, he doesn’t listen to a word Sheila is saying. The author shows us this in the book “ While all this was going on, Sheila had begun talking and it was a few minutes before I was able to catch up with her train of thought” (Wetherell 3). This

In the story “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, Eckels arrives at Time Safari, the first ever company to take people back in time. Eckels is told they will be going back in time to hunt a tyrannosaurus. Travis his guide and the other men get into the time machine with Eckels. Travis explains how critical all of the rules are and how one small change in the past can change the future drastically. They arrive and find their dinosaur, Eckels gets scared so he runs away falling off the path and killing a butterfly. Travis yells at Eckels and makes him clean up everything. Such as removing bullets from the dinosaur. They arrive in the future and find because of Eckels changing the past, the future has changed all for the worst. Travis is so angry he kills Eckels. In the book one lesson we can find is “One small change can make a big difference.”

William Faulkner and John Updike short stories share the same theme loyalty. The use of different literary elements to explore this similarity is what differs within the two stories. The authors take different approaches such as characters, settings, and point of views to communicate the theme to the reader. Throughout both short stories, the reader can receive a precise overview of loyalty. Even though the differences of literary elements are announced, one can still analyze the deeper meaning overall.

The world of Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” exists through the mostly unemotional eyes of the character Nick. Stemming from his reactions and the suppression of some of his feelings, the reader gets a sense of how Nick is living in a temporary escape from society and his troubles in life. Despite the disaster that befell the town of Seney, this tale remains one of an optimistic ideal because of the various themes of survival and the continuation of life. Although Seney itself is a wasteland, the pine plain and the campsite could easily be seen as an Eden, lush with life and ripe with the survival of nature.

A storm can represent and symbolize many different meanings. The impact of the word can be brought about in many different views and aspects that arrange themselves to create and portray detailed information and great definition to the subject of the short story as a whole. By using the storm as a symbol, it gives way to a passage that will encounter the relationship and parallel aspect of both the fervent thunder that occurs and the sexual passion that is encountered throughout the story. Kate Chopin opens up an interesting view and tentative explanation of human sexuality and the strong point of view of regulations placed on human sexuality as well as the aspect of trying to control a storm. By tying up these two ideas with one word,

These stories are both very diverse and regardless of being from two completely altered worlds, the likeness of characters between each story is easily identifiable. This essay will outline the similarities and clearly identify the comparison of characters between these two stories. Even though these stories are unlike one another, the comparison between books show similarities in the characters that impact how they act and who they are. The clearest