William Flint Goes Fishing Essay

This is a paper about the book Finding Fish: A Memoir, which was written by Antwone Fisher. By necessity given the nature of the book, the main character will be examined at length. Through careful examination of the main character a deeper understanding of the book can be reached. After the examination, a number of theoretical perspectives will be applied to the main character, as well as an explanation of how these perspectives can be used to evaluate Antwone in order to understand him better. The perspectives that will be used will be the strengths, systems, conflict, humanistic, and psychodynamic perspectives. Following the connection of the perspectives to Antwone, an explanation of why social workers use theories and

Fishing to some people may just be fishing. But fishing to the people who have read A River Runs through It some time in their life, is a gift. Whether fishermen use bait, worms, or George's flies it is that much sweeter to catch some trout with a brother under one arm and a father on the other.

Love can come from many different people. It is not always given by a family member. Love is not always given by a romantic interest, either. Sometimes love can be given by friends, especially in a time of need. This can be seen in Chris Crutcher’s short story Goin’ Fishin’. Goin’ Fishin’ is a short story about a boy named Lionel Serbousek, whose family is killed by his previous best friend, Neal Anderson. The story follows him through his grief. Throughout the story, Lionel’s friends are there to guide him through his grief and guard him from the outside world. Lionel’s friends love him like family.

A part of the world around him, the opinions of others is a vital means by which Hall introduces the fisherman. Immediately present in “The Ledge” is the fisherman’s relationship with his wife, “She did not want him to go. It was Christmas morning.” (369). The wife’s reluctance to see her husband leave is indicative of their relationship and the caring man that the fisherman is— she wants Christmas, a day of joy and love, to be

Sometimes our everyday experiences can strike us in ways that will influence our thinking in ways that might forever alter the way that we view our lives. In the short story “Fish Story,” Rick Bass primarily uses conflict, symbols, and the changes in a character to present a central theme reflecting the inevitability of our maturing thoughts and growing responsibilities that come incrementally with age. Gullason (1982) shares, “A short story represents a prose narrative usually concerned with a single aspect of personality changing or revealed as the result of conflict” (p. 222). We might interestingly find both of these dynamics within our weekly discussion’s short story assignment. Pigg (2017) explains, “The theme of a work of fiction is as much a creation of readers as it is for the writer because the user’s knowledge and beliefs play a part in determining the theme(s) they will recognize” (Attend Topic 4 Unit 2 [Video]). The writer of this week’s short story was likely to have known the theme that he intended to communicate while also recognizing the diversity of human thinking that gives us a myriad of perspectives. The “’Fish Story’s’ narrator is a 10-year-old boy in the early 1960’s living in rural Texas with parents who run a service station while their customer brings a 86 pound catfish creating a task to keep the fish alive until time to cook it” (Bass, 2009, pp. 1-2). As we recall our childhoods, most can likely remember how our imagination and fantasies began to collide with the realities of life, and this overreaching concept might allude to the theme of this piece of work. The narrator tells us how “He grew dizzy in the heat and from the strange combination of the unblinking monotony and utter fascination of his task until the trickling from the water hose seemed to be saturating and inflating the clouds as one would water a garden” (Bass, 2009, p. 2). As the narrator embraces the mundane task, his daydreams seem to symbolize the innocence of his youth. Later the story’s narrator “speaks less of childhood than of the general nature of the world in which we live, while contemplating that those days were different – we had more time for such thoughts, that time had not yet been corrupted”

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

“But the memory of that lost bass haunted me all summer and haunts me still.” In the story, The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant by W.D Wetherell is set mostly on the river. This story was told from the point of view of the main character, the narrator, who has a secluded crush on Sheila Mant but has an obvious crush on fishing. But what he does not see is who Sheila truly is under her skin until she agrees to go on a canoe ride with him. As they set out the narrator drifts a line in the water while when he sees new things about Sheila and her view on fishing. As he begins to carry on more of a conversation he gets a bite on his rod from what felt like the biggest bass of his life. Because of the narrator’s blind love for her, he let the fish go. In the Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant the author creates hesitation in the narrator’s decision between his true love and his blind love, through the use of conflict, Irony, and symbolism

The fishing trip is one of the most pivotal points in Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, because it is the moment when the patients are given the opportunity to fully embrace who they are and what they are capable of doing. Throughout the trip, the patients are out in the open, no longer restricted to the ward’s rules and regulations. They are free to be whoever they want to be. They experience many instances in which they are allowed to grow as human beings. At the gas station, the patients discover that “perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become” (Kesey 204).

They weren’t as sharp anywhere else; they seemed to have chosen the river as a guide on their slow wheel toward morning, and in the course of the summer’s fishing, I had learned all their names” (Wetherell 2). The boy never went anywhere without his fishing rod and even has a name brand fishing rod. He seems passionate about fishing and feels like fishing is his get away. The final way, were the boy picked the bass over Sheila is how he works so hard to keep it. When you work so hard to keep something you would think in the end you would pick it. If he did not pick the bass than what is the point of even trying. He went threw so much to keep the big bass. In the short story it states, “The canoe shot clear into the deeper water of the stream. I immediately looked down at the rod. It was bent in the same tight arc-miraculously, the bass was still on” (Wetherell 4). In the end the boy has tried so hard to keep the bass on and should not just let it go. He worked so hard for something but yet he has also had the guts to ask out

In quite shock the narrator slowly pushes the rod close towards the stern. This decision seems like a wise idea in the panicking mind of the narrator. Though because of this action instead of removing the line from the water a large bass grabs hold of the line. He notices his rod bow but fortunately Sheila notices nothing. The bass is huge and would be one of the narrators biggest catches ever, unfortunately the narrator is with Sheila who finds fishing dumb. He resist the urge to pick up the rod. The fish holds tight to the line. The narrator does everything in his power to remove the fish with out letting Sheila know. He end ups having to cut the line of the rod and let the fish swim away. The whole night he had payed no attention to Sheila because he was worried about what she might think if she knew that he fished. Sheila later tells the narrator that he is a funny kid and that she is going home with Eric Caswell. The narrator later realized that because he cared what Sheila thought he lost a great catch and in the same night he lost Sheila because she was an aloof girl who cared more for the rich boy in the

I am reading the short story, “Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherell. In this story a boy talks about his neighbor Sheila Mant who he was madly in love with. As the story goes on the boy finally asks her to out to see a concert. He decides to bring her to the concert by going on the river with his boat. He had forgotten that earlier he had cast his line out into the water so during the ride to the concert he noticed that he had caught a bass. Due to Sheila thinking that fishing is dumb he tried to hide the fact that he had caught a bass but instead of trying to get rid of the fish he tries to keep the bass attached to the line. When they arrive at the concert he has to decide whether he should choose the bass or Sheila. In this journal, I will be

Fishing Are you hooked on fishing. Do you what the purpose of fishing is? In this writing I am going to tell you how i went about finding research. And how to fish and the techniques of fishing. I will also tell you how to use a boat to fish and the benefits of using boat and fishing on the bank.

The mid May morning that Blaine, Roger and I set out on our annual fishing trip to Eagle Lake in the Allagash Waterway was bright and clear. The Ice on the lake had just gone out and it brought the promise of early season Brook Trout fishing. Eagle Lake, remote and unspoiled, is reached only by boat via the portage station at Indian Stream, and the lone building on the shores of the lake is the Ranger’s cabin.

The red drum fishing contest was just under way, and fishermen from miles around gathered on the beaches of Avon, looking for that prize winning catch. It's ironic, Morgan Menlock hated fishing, and yet, here he was, dangling from the hook of Skip Baldridge's new surf-fishing rod, complete with Momoi Diamond monofilament 130-pound line. Skip chuckled to himself that the ad was correct…the line was 200% tougher than tested strengths, because Morgan was not a small man. It had taken considerable effort to reel in this catch, and as the body reached the surface, Skip couldn't help the feeling of disappointment that washed over him. The prize money wouldn’t solve all Skip's problems, but every bit helped.

walks into the prison to see a huge amount of humans in front of him, Killian wasn't to keen on all this, he turned towards his boss and waited for the orders to leave. It had seem things were already being taken care of in these parts. The Fishman turned around, placing both hands behind his head, walking to the