The Bass And Aida Mant Analysis

“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

Angelou begins the excerpt narrating the “graduation epidemic” surrounding the town in the third person. Starting with paragraph 6, Angelou shifts to a first-person narrative, which provides an informative insight into her personal experiences regarding her graduation. This shift in perspective marks important stylistic differences: initially Angelou focuses on conveying the experiences of the class as a whole, whereas after paragraph 6 she focuses on her own experiences, through which several contrasts can be drawn. Rhetorically, these contrasts signify that identical rhetorical strategies will have completely different connotations. For example, Angelou’s classmates whose “future[s] rode heavily on their shoulders,” emulate not Angelou, as “youth and social approval allied themselves with [her] and [she] trammeled memories of slights and insults.” Without the shift in perspective, no contrasts could be drawn between paragraphs 1 through 5 and 6 through

Deep in the forest of Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the caged bird sings on. The singing slaves in Douglass’s narrative are the caged birds of Maya Angelou’s famous poem, filling the air around them with desire: desire for a freedom so far out of reach—for “things unknown but longed for still.”

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.

The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant by W. D. Wetherell is about a 14 year old boy(the narrator) that is trying to get this girl, named Sheila Mant, to like him. After observing and trying to make an impression Sheila Mant, he gets her to go with him to Dixford where a band is playing, but there is a problem, Sheila Mant thinks fishing is dumb and the boy thinks he has just caught the “biggest bass he has ever hooked” (McDougal 30). He needs to make a decision, the girl or his passion, the largemouth bass. The author of The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant was W. D. Wetherell who “was raised in Garden City, New Jersey, but has made his home for a number of years. Wetherell is the author of eight books and several short stories. His avocation is fly-fishing.” (W.D. Wetherell) Some things that help the reader empathize with the narrator in The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant would be the narrator observing Sheila Mant, him trying to make an impression Sheila, and him choosing between the girl and his passion, the largemouth bass.

One of the most important themes of Emmett Till’s story is, Justice should be served for the cruel acts committed against African Americans. In Emmett Till by Jessica McBirney, it indicates, “Emmett Till’s Murder became one of the most important catalysts of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.” The Murder of a young teenage African American boy sparked outrage throughout the country, and people wanted justice. Alongside other biased acts against African Americans, Emmett Till’s death triggered one of the most powerful movements in American history. Looking at the other side, one of Martha Salinas’ themes were, race and cultural beliefs shouldn’t interfere with education and knowledge. This sums up the main idea of, “The Scholarship Jacket”, because even though Martha was Mexican her intelligence was more powerful than all the prejudice against her. She was awarded with the prize, because of her smartness, not because of her heritage or skin color. Both of the themes in these two stories differ from in each other in many ways. Although, both these themes do have a couple of things in common. One of these being, that both of the themes talk about how everyone should be treated equally no matter race, gender, or culture. This is how today’s society should be, and it is also shows how Martha and Emmett have similar themes, even though they both went through different

Wetherell’s short story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” his first step toward self-awareness goes in a different direction than Gene’s. He is first confronted by an inner conflict that is spawned when he is given an ultimatum of choosing between his beloved hobby, fishing, and his crush, Sheila Mant. He describes the dilemma as feeling that he “would be torn apart between longings, split in half” (Wetherell 25), and even after he cuts the line and chooses Sheila over the bass he feels “a sick, nauseous feeling in [his] stomach” (25) because of it. Though he ultimately decides to pursue Sheila in the moment, it is clear that the bass makes a much more profound impact on him, since he clearly states that “Before the month was over, the spell she cast over [him] was gone, but the memory of that lost bass haunted [him] all summer and haunts [him] still.” (26) He continues to an even more important insight that “There would be other Sheila Mants in [his] life, other fish” (26) and explains that he has never made that mistake again and surely never will. Dissimilarly to Gene, it is not negative feelings that the boy recognizes to be toward Sheila, but simply that his love for fishing is where his passion truly

Kalley Vande Vrede Due Date: Friday 25th Journal 1 I am reading “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W. D. Wetherell. This story is about a boy who has a crush on Shelia Mant and a love for fishing. On his and Sheila’s first date he has to decide to pick the bass or her. In this journal I will be questioning and In this short story, I wonder if he is going to pick the bass or Sheila.

In “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherell uses characterization and flashback to indicate that no one should change for someone else and be true to who they are.

While on his date, the narrator is faced with a dilemma, he caught one of the largest bass he had ever seen. However, he refrains from telling Sheila since he fears that he might lose her. Provided his admirable feelings for Sheila, he could not help but experience the same emotions after seeing the bass. The narrator, after analysing the situation decides to cut the line and set the bass free. Little did he know, Sheila decided to go home with Eric. Leaving the young boy, without Sheila or the Bass. He soon realizes that he no longer feels the desire for Sheila nor the Bass. In fact, as life progresses, he will get several chances to meet new love interests as well as fish. Additionally, the story provides us a hard life lesson, which I believe

Two Kinds and Battle Royal and Their Character In the two short stories Two Kinds and Battle Royal, the authors make the characters face a number of circumstance like family, education, socioeconomic status, cultural background and also geographic isolation, all having many different effects on their character. These two stories give examples of the many circumstances that can ultimately effect ones character both negatively and positively. When reading the two passages we see that both characters get approached with the challenge of identity which can also be substituted for their character.

Maya Angelou's novel , I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, is written to show her evolution from a child to a young adult as she matures and grows to understand the corrupt society in which she lived. Abandoning her and her brother, Bailey, her parents placed them into the care of the children's grandmother, Momma. Significant events, whether celebratory or traumatic, having lasting effects on children and can dictate their perception of the world around them, as well as push a negative reflection on themselves. A couple of years back, before reading, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, having found the quote from a woman I had never heard of, Maya Angelou.

The minute someone loses innocence, it is lost forever. That is why growing up and becoming an adult is one of the hardest and most vital times in a young persons life. Maya’s innocence is forever lost after being left by her parents, oppressed by racism, and raped. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a captivating novel written by Maya Angelou who uses a poetic tone and an abundant amount of similes and metaphors in order to convey that growing up in the South oppressed by racism steals innocence and leaves an indelible mark on a young girls life. Angelou creates a beautiful and touching autobiography about a lost black-girl in Stamps, Arkansas that shows the readers the struggle of growing up as a black child in the South

Angelou shows that through the character and the time she is in the struggle one had with the color of their skin. Our first look that Angelou gives us into the life of Marguerite Johnson takes place in the town of Stamps. The obvious separation of whites and blacks in the town is shown to us straight away. Her young age made her act in the way to point out the obvious and not look at things into full perspective. The colored cotton pickers labored intensively for a small day's pay to feed their families, while the white folks tramped into the stores buying

    During their growing up years, children struggle to find their personal place in society. It is difficult for children to find their place when they are given numerous advantages, but when a child is oppressed by their parents or grandparents, males in their life, and the dominant culture, the road to achieving self-identity is fraught with enormous obstacles to overcome. Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and Mary Crow Dog's Lakota Woman depict the two women's "triumph over formidable social obstacles and [their] struggle to achieve a sense of identity and self-acceptance" (Draper 1).