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The Bass The River And Sheila Mant

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"Above all: to thine own self be true." - William Shakespeare In this quote, Shakespeare is saying that no matter what happens to or around you never change yourself. Now this doesn’t mean you can’t learn from that situation, it just means don’t change your beliefs and goals. For me personally I learned this the hard way in middle school. When I liked a girl I always tried to impress them, and most of the time I changed something about myself. Let’s just say I rarely got the girl. An example of this quote is obviously shown in W. D. Wetherell’s short story “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant”. The narrator in this story is a young teenage boy who has a beautiful neighbor while he is at his summer home. He finally gets the courage to ask

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