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“The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”

“The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”. By W. D. Wetherell. SETTING. Summer New England Town River Provides the backdrop for the story to take place. CONFLICT. Physical : the narrator struggles with the bass

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“The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”

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  1. “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” By W. D. Wetherell

  2. SETTING • Summer • New England Town • River • Provides the backdrop for the story to take place

  3. CONFLICT • Physical: the narrator struggles with the bass • Internal: the narrator struggles between his desire to catch the biggest bass in his life and his desire to impress Sheila

  4. CHARACTERS • Narrator: 14 yrs. old at the story’s beginning, loved fishing for largemouth bass, has a crush on Sheila Mant, spends his time trying to get up enough courage to ask Sheila for a date • Sheila Mant: 17 yrs. old, family is renting the cottage next to his family’s, doesn’t know the narrator exists, talks constantly of older college boys, upper class

  5. Characterization Methods Narrator’s actions Narrator’s thoughts Speech of both characters Physical appearance of Sheila

  6. PLOT • BASIC SITUATION (Exposition) • Describes the setting and narrator’s obsession with Sheila (Introduces the internal conflict) • Describes Sheila and her suitors • Asks Sheila to a dance • Takes his canoe and fishing rod • COMPLICATIONS (Rising Action) • Narrator desperately tries to conceal the rod with the big bass as Sheila chatters away, having absolutely no idea what is going on

  7. PLOT (cont.) • CLIMAX • The narrator cuts the line • FALLING ACTION • Sheila rides home with a college boy • DENOUEMENT • Older, reflective narrator says it was a hard choice and a mistake he has never repeated.

  8. CONFLICT • INTERNAL • Narrator struggles with his courage to ask Sheila to the dance • He struggles between his desire to catch the bass and his desire for Sheila • ELEMENTAL (External) • Narrator’s physical struggle with the bass • Narrator’s verbal struggle to keep Sheila ignorant of the bass

  9. POINT OF VIEW • First Person Narrator • The story is told through the thoughts, feelings, and remembrances of an adult main character.

  10. THEME • All the concern about hiding something to prevent someone from looking at him in a negative way • Teenagers’ conflict between being true to themselves and trying to be attractive to others

  11. OTHER ELEMENTS • Dramatic Irony – when the reader is aware of something that one of the characters in the story is not • Page 39, col. A, par. 1

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