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The Bass The River And Sheila Mant Summary

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The narrator of the story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” is a young teenage boy, he has several conflicts that every teenager has to go through. Every decision came with a conflict or a question that he has to choose what is best for him. The boy that is tell this story has a internal and external conflict that he must figure out how to deal with. The internal conflict in this story is whether or not he should ask Sheila Mant out or not. The external conflict was whether or not he should rill in his line since he was trying to impress Sheila and she has already told him that he did not like fishing. Internal conflicts deal with thing that are going on inside of you and you have to figure out a way to deal with them. We know what the

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