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Teenage Love Stupid or Not “Catch the Moon” and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” are fictional stories based on the topic of teenage love. “Catch the Moon” was written by Judith Ortiz Cofer in 1995, the setting takes place in a city, mainly in a junkyard. The main character is Luis Cintron. “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” was written by W.D Wetherell, in 1983, the setting is on and around a river. The main character is a 14 year old boy. These two stories are about teenage love. “Catch the Moon” is about a boy named Luis Cintron. He has been to jail, and his mom died from cancer. He met a girl at his dad's auto salvage yard. She needed a hub-cap so he searched really hard and eventually found it. Luis' conflict is he has trouble getting over his mother's death, the resolution is Naomi helps him move forward. Luis' character at first is the self centered criminal, at the end he is an unselfish, hardworking, motivated son. The theme is everybody needs somebody who cares when going through times of despair. “Naomi ran to the window and drew the curtain aside while Luis held on to the thick branch and waited to give her the first good thing he has given anyone in a long time”(Cofer 288). “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” is about a 14 year old boy who is a victim of a girl's beauty. He tries to win that said beauty, but he fails. The boy's conflict is catch the fish or catch the girl the resolution is he cuts the line, the girl ditches him, and he leaves with regret. He changes from a cowardly lamb to a courageous lion throughout the story. The theme is love can blind you from the beauty within it can also hide the ugliness. “There would be other Sheila Mants in my life, other fish, and though I came close once or twice, it was these secret, hidden tuggings in the night that claimed me, and I never made the same mistake again”(Wetherell 298). “Catch the Moon” and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” were about teenage love and