"The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" and "Catch the Moon" Theme Comparison Essay

In these two stories, “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” and “Catch the Moon” are both very similar in a few ways. In both stories the main characters changes in their personalities. Luis and the boy in “The bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”, get changes by a girl, and they start to realized things at the end weren’t how its suppose to be and things didn’t fall in place but you need to take it like a lesson learned.

In the story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” the main characters are the boy and Sheila. The main conflict is that the boy likes Sheila and she hates fishing and he had to choose between her or the bass he had caught. He had thrown away the fish because he didn’t want Sheila to see it. Later, the boy regretted it. The resolution was that Sheila left him anyway afterward when he was trying so hard to impress her. The main character changes by feeling regret, and dumb for letting go the biggest fish he had caught over a girl who didn’t like him and didn’t like him for who he is and judge him that fishing is stupid. You shouldn’t have to hide who you really are even if someone else doesn’t like it because they should except you for who you’re.

In the story “Catch the Moon” the main characters are Luis and Naomi. The main conflict is that Luis has not grieve and let go of his mother’s death over 3 years and he changes because of that. He barely gets out and have fun or talk to girls. When people bring up something about his mother he gets sad. The main character Luis changes by the grief of forgetting and letting his mother go and moving on and becoming to change back to how he really is before his mother died. He couldn’t even talk to Naomi and likes her so much but things change. Love and losing someone changes the person can be effective to the way you see things.

Luis and the boy in “The bass, the River, and Sheila Mant”, has changed because a girl, a mother and a girl he likes and they start to realized things at the end. They both change and both loses somebody they are close to. You have to grieve to let go and accept something. It is the only way to move on, when you do you will feel great. You also have to accept things and make the right decisions.