https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd The Bass The RIver and Sheila Mant en-us 2019-01-04 18:42:09 UTC 2019-01-05 17:01:09 UTC hello@padlet.com bakhramova https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317513110 “It had to be an old bass- a young one wouldn’t have know the rocks were there”]]> 2019-01-04 18:46:12 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317513110 rooneyv https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317513155  “Sheilas severe and unforgiving eyes”]]> 2019-01-04 18:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317513155 moirm2 https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317513498 “...as bashful and as frightened as a unicorn.”]]> 2019-01-04 18:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317513498 moirm2 https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317513606 “...my longing was like a madness and I couldn’t stop.”]]> 2019-01-04 18:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317513606 moirm2 https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317513801 “...a corridor of hidden life that ran between banks like a tunnel.”]]> 2019-01-04 18:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317513801 moirm2 https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317514179 “...washing her in a creamy, luminous glow.”]]> 2019-01-04 18:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317514179 moirm2 https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317514418 “...to me she appeared unutterably suave, the epitome of sophistication.”]]> 2019-01-04 18:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317514418 moirm2 https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317515273 “...all spoken with the same quizzical, half-accusatory tone Sheila used then.”]]> 2019-01-04 18:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317515273 bakhramova https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317515356 “Arranging the pillows at the bow so Shelia could rest if she was in one of her pensive moods, propping my father’s radio so we could have music on the way back”]]> 2019-01-04 18:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317515356 moirm2 https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317515388 “...Sheila’s severe and unforgiving eyes.”]]> 2019-01-04 18:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317515388 nedderm https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317515446 “the moon was out now. it was low and full enough that its beam shone directly on Sheila” (172)]]> 2019-01-04 18:56:08 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317515446 bakhramova https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317515546 “There was an extra paddle in the bow, but Shelia made no effort to pick it up”]]> 2019-01-04 18:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317515546 rooneyv https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317516341 The bass represents The more important opportunities in life, his crush on Shelia on the other hand represents a more small and in the moment want.
“Before the month was over, the spell she cast over me was gone, but the memory of that lost bass haunted me all summer and haunts me still.”]]> 2019-01-04 18:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317516341 nedderm https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317516363 “Then saw her in the spotlight as she came slowly down the path” (170)]]> 2019-01-04 18:58:57 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317516363 rooneyv https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317517032 “I had to paddle up a sluggish stream that came into the river beneath a covered bridge. There was a shallow sandbar at the mouth of this stream-weeds on one side, rocks on the other.”

This proves all of the work that the narrator is putting in to impressing Sheila, and illustrates a crowded area. The narrators planning ahead supports how he is going about the situation, nervous and almost frantic.]]> 2019-01-04 19:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317517032 moirm2 https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317517585 Sheila doesn’t look at the narrator for the entire story, as it is explicitly stated. However, towards the end of the story when Sheila leaves, she actually looks at him. 
"For the first time that night she looked at me, really looked at me. ‘You’re a funny kid, you know that?’”
This is a sign that he was going through the night almost blindly, and he lost the opportunity of the bass because his true vision was clouded by his affection for Sheila. The narrator telling the story recalls all of the time when Sheila did NOT look at him, and this should have been a sign that the bass would have been a much more awarding opportunity.]]> 2019-01-04 19:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317517585 https://padlet.com/moirm2/t36x5hnciekd/wish/317594007  “There was a summer in my life where the only thing lovelier to me than a largemouth bass was Sheila Mant.”

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