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Summary Of The Bass The River And Sheila Mant
The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant is a short story about lost love, realization, moving on, but most of all, letting go of what you love. The readers follow along as our fourteen-year-old narrator falls for 17 year-old Sheila Mant during a Vermont summer. The author reveals the theme throughout the use of characterization, plot, irony, imagery, and many more. Throughout the story, the narrator is trying to woo Sheila and takes her on a boat ride up to a concert. But, just as things were going swimmingly, our narrator realizes he didn't pull up his line he has under the boat. This normally wouldn't have been a problem, as he would usually have been able to reel it in, but everything changed after Sheila said that she didn't like fishing.
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