The Bass Compare And Contrast Sam And Sheila Mant

In the book, she is constantly comparing herself to others and starts to believe everyone is better and more attractive than she will ever be. Another example of how Heather is self-conscious is when she stops looking at herself. “I avoided looking myself in the eye when walking past the mirror” (Oliver 124) Her friends are there to help her and support her but she feels like they don’t understand how she is feeling. She starts to feel self-conscious even more when her close friend Natalie gets all the attention of people because of her looks. Heather is constantly comparing herself to others and always doubts herself when around other people. Heather shows she is self-conscious when she always doubts herself in the book

Love,it can make you do things you never thought you would do and it attaches strings that sometimes can’t ever be broken.Both “The Bass the River and Sheila Mant”and “Annabel Lee” discuss love and how much of a strong pull it can have on you and your life choices.

The realization comes later after he has accidentally hooked the biggest fish he has ever hooked. By reeling in the bass, he would be losing Sheila, but cutting it loose would make him lose the catch of his life. When the narrator finally knows a decision must be made between the bass and Sheila, he chooses Sheila believing it is a more mature thing to do. When he “pull[s] a penknife . . . and cut[s] the line,” (7) he makes a conscious decision that Sheila Mant is to be more important than his fishing. When the night is over, and Sheila goes off in a different guy’s Corvette, the narrator comes to the realization that she was not worth giving up the fish. Later in life, after being with other girls and catching other fish, what “haunts [him] still” is losing the bass, not Sheila Mant. Ultimately, the narrator’s maturity came from finding out what he actually loved the most and sticking to that.

At a first glance, Sam Monroe is a character who one could easily assume is a very angst-filled, lonely, and misunderstood teenager. This being said, it is no secret that Sam is quite troubled, in fact his appearance and moodiness are a clear cry for help and attention and could be signs of severe depression. His cry goes unanswered as his family is too busy and selfish to be bothered with his needs, turning him into an equally selfish person. Sam takes out his frustration by doing drugs, as seen in his first scene in Life as a House. He dresses in very attention grabbing ways, with very dark clothing, eye makeup, and facial piercings, yet still goes ignored. He spends most days alone in his room blaring his music and hiding away,

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

Wetherell, the narrator is overconfident by showing off to Sheila Mant, a girl three years older than him, and trys to multi task by doing three different things at once. The narrator is 14, and he enjoys fishing alot. One example of how the narrator is overconfident is by showing off to Sheila by telling her what he knows about fish, when Sheila hates everything about fishing. According to the story, “‘Yeah, bass. They come into the shallows at night to chase frogs and moths and things. Big largemouths. Micropterus salmoides,’ I added, showing off” (Wetherell 2). According to the quote, the narrator shows off by talking about bass after Sheila is suspicious of the noise coming from the water, and adding on the latin name for bass. He is trying hard to impress Sheila Mant because she is beautiful, but she is much older than him, as she talks about college. The narrator is someone who Sheila would never date, yet he’s overconfident that if he takes her to the concert they were traveling in a canoe to, he might get a chance. Another way the narrator from “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” shows overconfidence is that he tries to keep a largemouth bass on a fishing pole in secret from Sheila, while paddling upstream to the concert they were going to, all while trying to show off in front of Sheila. The story states, “I had managed to keep the bass in the middle of the river away from the rocks, but it had plenty of room there, and for the first time a chance to exert its full strength. I quickly computed the weight necessary to draw a fully loaded canoe backward- the thought of it made me feel faint” (Wetherell 3). The quote proves that he was trying to paddle upstream while trying to keep the bass on the fishing line, while hiding the fact that there was a bass dragging the boat downstream from Sheila, for she hates fishing. He tries to keep his cool during this balancing act to make it look like

Sarah had and might have some intellectual setbacks. She is below her peers intellectually and has had some learning deficiencies with articulation, mathematics, and chemistry. At the age of 12 her father died and that was when she had taken a turn for the worse. Argued and fought, had gotten a boyfriend who made her feel bad about her weight and lowered her self-esteem. Mother had found diet pills in Sarah’s room, but Sarah lied about them. During Sarah’s interview she was asked if there was anything she would change about herself and she said that if she could change anything it would be her appearance. She

She questions how she could convey her excitement when it came to her turn to catching a fish and recalls it was the “white twisting fish” that hauled up onto the boat. By doing this, she paints a clear picture for the readers to vision themselves in the moment that was the peak of her passion. She was fond of the moment until her father opinionated that he “[doesn’t] like to see fish caught.” Instead of reasoning with her father, she realizes that it was simply a statement of his own feeling and ultimately it was her decision if to continue fishing. She claims her passion for fishing “slowly extinguished” from the words of her father.

n the book, Staying Fat for Sarah Brynes, many characters present themselves with a "false face". Sarah Byrnes in considereed one of them. She poses as a tough, strong, unemotional girl who doesn't really care about how she looks. She was mean to those whould bring up what her face looked like. She would put a up a defense system that no one could breach or really figure out who she was. She didn't want anyone to know what the true caause of her scars were. Sarah would appear srtong and witty until she ran back in her cave of secrets. She would take her anger and frusteration out on her and Eric's book, Crispy Pork Rinds. The two would make fun of those who would make fun of them. Her true personality appeared in the letter to Eric, telling

Even though the boy was obsessed with her he still was more intent on the bass. Another possible reason is that the entire time he was paddling them to the concert he avoided any chances of losing the bass. When he first hooked the bass he could have just cut the line but instead as it said in the text, “I reached down to tighten the drag”(W.D. Wetherell3). The boys instincts for fishing made him keep the bass on the line. The boy also knows a large amount of information on the bass. He was able to tell what it was by the sound it made in the water. In the book the boy also told Sheila Mant, “They come into the shallows at night to chase frogs and moths and things. Big largemouths. Micropterus salmoides”(W.D. Wetherell2). This shows that the boy was fascinated by the bass enough to learn the habits and the scientific name of it. Next the book also points to the possibility of the boy picking Sheila. One reason is that he works up the courage to finally ask Sheila. Right after asking her he spends the rest of the the time getting his canoe ready for Sheila to ride in.When they were making their way down the river to the concert the boy tries to impress her with his knowledge on the bass. He also says in the text, “”No kidding?” I said. I had no idea whom she meant”(W.D. Wetherell2). This indicates that he is trying to have some of the same likes and dislikes as her. Another reason that supports Sheila is that he was completely

Sam has a major fear of bath tubs because that’s where his parents would abuse him, and one day Grace had to force him in one so he wouldn’t change. Sam has many fears like every teenage boy: changing into a werewolf, not getting to be with Grace, being alone, and many more. Grace is a good student; she likes math more than other subjects.

I am reading “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Maunt.” by W.D Wetherell. This story is about a boy that has two passions, a girl and fishing. His problem is that this girl dose not like fishing, and he will do anything to not look dumb in her mind. When he finally gets a date with her he hooks the biggest fish of his life. Now he has to figure out how to balance out both of his

Have you ever had where people don’t want you to be yourself or life just doesn’t seem to be going the right way for you? Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Kara Westfall from The Thickety by J.A.White both seem to run into 8`this problem without end. They are struggling to stay themselves while saving others who don’t think they need saving. After losing people they care for, them not caring or just not alive and well. After tragedy they seem to find a sense of justice and throw themselves into danger for those who might fall to the same cause of their family of friends. No matter what people say, they are determined to be themselves, no matter what happens.

The essay begins with the negative reaction a friend of hers has to the idea of the author smiling less. “I associate you with your smile. It’s the essence of you. I should think you’d want to smile more!” (Cunningham 348). Her identity as a human is directly associated with a smile she uses on reflex. This shows the pressure put on her specifically to smile around others. If she does not smile, her friends will automatically think there is something wrong with her emotionally. Another example a friend of hers experienced is shown later in the essay. A teacher pulled her aside after class and asked her if something was wrong because she looked sad all class. “All I could figure is that I wasn’t smiling. And the fact that she felt sorry for me for looking normal made me feel horrible” (Cunningham 350). While her friend felt normal, in the teacher’s eyes a girl smiling was normal behavior. These personal experiences demonstrate in great detail the pressures put on woman to behave a certain way. It’s a way to show the reader why this is an important

Sam never took, always gave. It annoyed her boyfriend but she didn’t care it never changed anything. She still took her time to help at the local homeless shelter, the local pre-school, the church, and where ever she felt she was needed. Growing up no one was there for her in need. Nor did she have all she needed so she grew distant from others. . She still didn’t have a lot but others had it worse so she felt as if she needed to. Swallowing herself in the volunteer hours it all changed when it