1. The main character in the book Drums, girls, and dangerous pie; Steven has multiple strengths and weaknesses. Steven’s strength is his family, his brother, mother, and father, they all support him in everything he does. Steven’s weakness is Jeffrey’s disease, because this disease makes Jeffrey very weak and he can’t be that little happy boy he usually is. Another weakness for Steven is the microwave meals, because he had to eat microwave meals all the time when his mom went to Pennsylvania for Jeffrey’s treatment.
I think he will go for the fish Will the narrator pick the Bass or Sheila? He may pick the Bass. Firstly, the boy might pick the bass is because it is his favorite past time. He has a lot of knowledge about fishing; he knows what a bass sounds like from a splash. Fishing is 2nd nature to him; every time he gets his boat
In the story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” a boy takes a girl named Sheila Mant on a date and has to make a difficult decision. That difficult decision is his dream girl or a huge fish that he might never get the chance to catch again. This is a hard choice to make because he loves fishing, but Sheila on the other hand does not. He could pick Sheila because he loves her very much. For the past couple of summers he has been admiring and watching her.
Imagine, having that constant feeling of losing someone everywhere you go and not being able to do nothing about it. This is how Steven Alper from Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, feels about his little brother Jeffrey Alper. Steven Alper begins as a normal 7th grade student. But when his little brother gets hurt and is diagnosed with leukemia Steven’s life falls apart. He faces many challenges and is forced to confront them in any way he can.
Woman Hollering Creek People say not to get to close to the creek’s edge or her hand will reach up from the water and pull you in. This creek is said to be haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman named Maria Some, she walks along the banks trying to find her two children. Maria let them drown in The Woman Hollering Creek because she wanted revenge. In some cases, she has seemed to have appeared headless with wailing coming from her detached head.
Speak Theme Essay What would you do if your friend never spoke? Speaking is essential to maintain a healthy relationship with friends and family. If you never spoke, nobody would ever know how you felt. In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, silence portrays an important way that the main character acts.
Approximately 24 million people in the United States struggle with an eating disorder. Almost 50% of these people have depression (11). Depression, anxiety, and anger are very common among people with eating disorders. Chris Crutcher, the author of A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune, uses Angus as a main character who struggles with trying to fit in because of his eating disorder. Angus has struggled with obesity all his life, and a main cause is bullying.
What seemed to be the biggest bass in the river, snagged on the line. There is no way the boy could let Sheila know of this. The rest of the night, the narrator maneuvers the boat perfectly and somehow manages to keep the fish on the line, without Sheila having any knowledge. They finally reach their destination and the boy is faced with a crippling decision. The boy has to either cut the line, letting the fish go, or risk having Sheila lose all interest in him by reeling in the fish.
He might choose the girl for several reasons, first off she is pretty he describes her as percect for him. also he loves her. He watches her through the bushes, and knows all of her moods. he knows what mood she is in depending on what position she is in, but the bass was also another option, He might have chosen the bass because it was the biggest bass hes ever seen. It pulled the boat and bent the rod twice as much.
He would then have bad reputation. If he chose the girl, he would have a chance with a hot chick and maybe go on another date. Another reason why he let the bass go was that he didn’t want to embarrass himself in front of Sheila. He tried to hide his fishing equipment when she wasn’t looking because he agreed with her. Consequently, in moving the rod, he accidentally hooked on a big bass.
Y Sheila R attractive R crush… watches R impress her G I think he will pick the bass. I wonder if the narrator of the story will pick the bass or Sheila Mant.
He confronts internal conflict in the story when he mounts the rod in the boat. The narrator is getting ready for his date with Sheila in the middle of the story, when he “mounted his Mitchell reel on his(made changes to quote) Pflueger spinning reel rod and stuck it in the stern”.(Wetherell 2) The narrator crosses paths with internal conflict as he puts the rod in the boat, allowing for the possibility of getting the bass on his line and causing conflict with Sheila's dislike for fishing. Along with his love of fishing. The narrator also encounters internal conflict when Sheila brings up Eric Caswell.
The Princess’s Choice Frank R. Stockton, the author of The Lady or The Tiger, wrote the story and left us questioning who might have been behind the door. The story is puzzling and mysterious all together. The story gives many evidences and hints to the princess’s decision. Some would say that the lady came out from behind the door, but there are several evidence that show that the princess chose the door with the tiger. First of all, if the princess chose the lady, she would be in so much pain to see her lover and the lady together.
Lady and the Tiger Argumentative Essay “She knew in which of the two rooms that lay behind those doors stood the cage of the tiger, and which waited the lady.” Which did she choose? In Frank Stockton's short story, the Lady and the Tiger, the lovely princess loves deeply for a man, but now that her father has found out she is with a man in a lower social class, she had to witness her soul mate be sentenced to her father’s coliseum. The princess loves this man greatly, but she is scared that she would have to watch her lover being mauled by a tiger or fall in love with a woman that she deeply despises.
The author uses several things to help develop Aunty Pearl in the story. For example, in Blue Skin of the Sea “Malanamekahuluohemanu”, Sonny says, “... I always thought she had royal blood in her. The bigger the Hawaiian queens were, the more beautiful.” This shows that Aunty Pearl must be very regal and beautiful like a queen. The book also reads, “Aunty Pearl walked onto the bed of the pickup and sat gracefully down on a special upholstered seat…”
