Taylor Schoenberg Due Date: Thursday 24th
Journal #1
I am reading “The Bass, the River, and Shelia Mant” by W.D. Wetherell. The story is about a boy and his struggle between deciding between Shelia Mant, a girl he really likes, and the bass, one of his passions. In this journal, I will be questioning weather he will pick Shelia or the bass.
G- Narrator picks bass or Shelia (1 sentence)
Y- Bass (1 sentence)
R- Knowledgeable- Knows the splash is the bass (2-3 sentences)
R- experience- He knew it was a big fish
R- attention- goes into detail/name brand equipment
Y- Shelia
R-watches her intently because she is gorgeous
R-impress her because she is a hard catch
R- considers hiding fish/giving up passion
G-I think he is going to pick…
As I am reading the story, I wonder weather he will
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pick Shelia or the bass.
I think the narrator is going to pick the bass. I think he will pick the bass because he knows so much about the fish. In the story, he knew just by the sound of the splash that it was a bass. He has been fishing so many times he knew where to steer the canoe so the fish wouldn’t get caught or un-hooked from the rod. He has so much experience about the bass as well. When he had the fish hooked he knew that it was a large fish, one of or the biggest he had ever seen. The boy could only see the fish through the water; he hadn’t even measured or weighed it. He could also tell it was such a large fish by the way the rod was bending from the weight of the fish. He pays very close attention to the details of the fish and the way he fishes. The boy had all name brand equipment and had spent quite a bit of money on the supplies. He knew lots of details about the fish; he mentioned how he could imagine the fish’s tail and the way it was cutting the water trying to escape. The narrator could also give up his passion and pick Shelia instead. He is always watching her from his cottage. He knew all of her moods
just from laying on the dock and tanning. He would always sneak out at night to watch and wish he were invited to one of their parties. He noticed many features about her that made her beautiful; her long red hair and freckles. The narrator was always trying to impress Shelia, weather it be swimming for as long as she was outside or shining the canoe to make it look pristine. He was always trying to impress her because she was so hard to catch. For goodness sake she was 17 and he was 14. The narrator also considers hiding and giving up his passion to be with Shelia. When they are in the canoe Shelia mentions how she hates fishing and how stupid it is. The narrator thinks about throwing all of his equipment overboard so she wouldn’t see his fishing supplies. In the end, I think he is going to pick the bass, because I don’t think he could handle giving up fishing forever and Shelia hates fishing so he wouldn’t be able to go if he was with her. In this journal I will be evaluating some of the narrator’s characteristics and examples of how she portrays these characteristics. G- Characterize the Narrator Y- Stalker R- Watch’s Shelia R- knows her personalities R- Sneaks out at night Y- determined R- wants to ask Shelia out R- wants to keep the bass R- try’s to have both Shelia and the bass While reading this story I noticed a few characteristics about the Narrator. One of the characteristics I realized about the narrator is that he is a stalker. Not only does he have a crush on Shelia Mant, he is obsessed with her. When Shelia is out on the dock tanning the narrator watches her and notices all the little details about her. He stays outside and tries to impress her, as long is Shelia is outside, the narrator is out the same amount of time swimming his fastest and practicing his best dives. “I suppose to these jaded twenty-year-olds she seemed the incarnation of innocence and youth, while to me she appeared unutterably suave, the epitome of sophistication,” stated the narrator. The narrator also knows all of Shelia’s personalities. He had barely if ever talked to her and just by her positions while tanning he knew so much about her. The narrator could tell when she was approachable or when she was a little on edge. “I had learned all of her moods. If she lay flat on the diving board with her hand trailing idly in the water, she was pensive, not to be disturbed,” said the narrator. The narrator also sneaks out at night after his parents go to bed so he can watch Shelia’s parties from afar. He was so dispirit to get invited to one of their parties he would do just about anything. The narrator was so swept away by how perfect and enchanted the parties were. The narrator states, “Too noisy by half,” my mother quickly decided, but I would have given anything to be invited to one of their parties, and when my parents went to bed I would sneak through the woods to their hedge and stare enchanted at the candlelit swirl of white dresses and bright, paisley skirts.” Another personality that I noticed about the narrator was how determined he was; he never gave up on what he wanted. All the narrator wants is to find the perfect time to ask Shelia out. He can’t stop swooning over her and can never get her out of his head. He has to build up a lot of nerve to ask Shelia out on a date. Even though Shelia was 3 years older then he was that didn’t stop him from thinking he had a chance with her. “There is a band in Dixford tomorrow night at nine. Want to go?” While Shelia and the narrator are out on the boat, the narrator catches a large bass. He loves fishing, but Shelia mentions how she thinks fishing is stupid. The narrator can’t let the fish go, but he doesn’t want Shelia to know about the fish. He tries to avoid all the areas the fish would get unhooked and uses all his might to paddle the boat in specific ways to avoid those areas. “Slowly, not making any motion that might alert Shelia, I reached down to tighten the drag,” stated the narrator. Although it is nearly impossible, the narrator doesn’t want to choose between Shelia and the bass. He does everything to try to keep the bass hooked but make sure Shelia doesn’t see the fish. He acts very calm although he is trying to keep conversation, steer the boat, and avoid areas where the bass would become unhooked. The narrator stated, “It’s just the current,” I said hoarsely. “No sweat or anything.” As you can see the lessons I learned from the narrator that he is a stalker and that he is determined. I think I deserve a 9 out of 10, because I added lots of examples and textual evidence of what I was explaining and talking about.
The voyage of the narwhal is a novel by Andrea Barrett, who reveals many aspects of the search for fame and glory, versus search for the truth. When the characters leave for the voyage with the same mission, it is the drive of their different motives for the expedition that separates their destiny on the trip. It was the commander that in blindness of fame led the expedition to tragedy and loss. Through out this novel the author reveals through the characters that the search for the truth is more important than the search of fame and wealth.
I am reading “The Bass, the River, and Shelia Mant” by W.D. Wetherell, The story is about a young boy trying to choose between a beautiful girl and his passion of fishing. In this journal, I will be questioning and evaluating.
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The story describes the protagonist who is coming of age as torn between the two worlds which he loves equally, represented by his mother and his father. He is now mature and is reflecting on his life and the difficulty of his childhood as a fisherman. Despite becoming a university professor and achieving his father’s dream, he feels lonely and regretful since, “No one waits at the base of the stairs and no boat rides restlessly in the waters of the pier” (MacLeod 261). Like his father, the narrator thinks about what his life could have been like if he had chosen another path. Now, with the wisdom and experience that comes from aging and the passing of time, he is trying to make sense of his own life and accept that he could not please everyone. The turmoil in his mind makes the narrator say, “I wished that the two things I loved so dearly did not exclude each other in a manner that was so blunt and too clear” (MacLeod 273). Once a decision is made, it is sometimes better to leave the past and focus on the present and future. The memories of the narrator’s family, the boat and the rural community in which he spent the beginning of his life made the narrator the person who he is today, but it is just a part of him, and should not consume his present.
Love, an emotion that grips over people in intense ways, and holds them for an everlasting time. In the short story called “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” written by W.D. Wetherell shows how love, or having a passion for someone, or something can drive a person into doing things in different ways. The story deals with the narrator trying to impress and go out with a girl named Sheila Mant, but at the same, the narrator loves fishing very much, so these two different passions would go in conflict with each other in the story. The theme of the story is not letting your love of something be overshadowed by anything else. The story portrays the theme through literary devices such as; the characterization of the narrator, the ironies involved
He teaches the kid what to do in order to successfully reel in a large, beautiful fish. Ironically, the narrator is the one who learns from the kid in the end. At the beginning of the story, everything is described negatively, from the description of the kid as a “lumpy little guy with baggy shorts” to his “stupid-looking ’50s-style wrap-around sunglasses” and “beat-up rod”(152). Through his encounter with the boy, the narrator is able to see life in a different way, most notable from how he describes the caught tarpon as heavy, silvery white, and how it also has beautiful red fins (154). Through the course of the story, the narrator’s pessimistic attitude changes to an optimistic one, and this change reveals how inspiring this exchange between two strangers is. This story as a whole reveals that learning also revolves around interactions between other people, not only between people and their natural surroundings and
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...d to be a woman in the company of the boat. The significance lies in the possibility that with the different types of poetry in the narrative, the governor presents examples of the types of poems that should be written by different people coming from different classes.
Themes and Variations of the Trout Quintet A quintet is a work for five instruments, in this case piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass (piano quintet). The fourth movement of this quintet is a theme and variations on Schubert's song 'Die Forelle' (The Trout). Schubert (1797-1828) was a prolific song / lied composer. Many of his songs took their inspiration from the beauty of nature; 'The Trout' being a good example. Much of his 'lieder' display pictorial word painting effects in either the vocal or piano writing - note the piano 'ripples' of the brook in the accompaniment of 'Die Forelle'.
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Ibsen created an environment for women to question the society they lived in. Nora and Hedda, two feminists living in a masculine household bereft of happiness, desired to evade their unhappy life at home under the guidance of a man. Eventually, both women escaped from their husband’s grasp, but Hedda resorted to suicide in order to leave. Nora agreed with Lois Wyse by showing her strengths with pride to everybody, while Hedda hid her strengths like a coward by killing herself. Ibsen used numerous literary elements and techniques to enhance his writing and to help characterize the two protagonists.
She is willing to sacrifice an understanding lover for something that maybe a one night stand or worse. It is difficult to comprehend her decision, especially because of her extended session of “mulling” (Farley 2).... ... middle of paper ... ...