Comparing and Comprehending Theme's Essay

Bella A. & Aryon L.
11-19-10
Period 5
Comparing and Comprehending Theme

Falling in love made a big difference in both “The Bass,the River,and Sheila Mant” story and “Catch the Moon.” In the first story the narrator had a big crush on a girl named Sheila mant, the prettiest girl he had ever met. One day he finally asked her out on a date and she agreed to go. Sheila did not like fishing at all. What Sheila was not aware of was that fishing was the narrators favorite hobby. The narrator let a big mass go away after finding out she hates fishing. While at the fair Sheila met another guy with a nice car and left the narrator all alone. In the story “Catch the Moon” a boy named Luis had just came out of juvenile hall and was court ordered to work for his dad for 6 months. He was to polish rows of hubcaps unless he wanted to go back to juvenile hall . While out one night he stopped at a place called the “Ramirez Funeral Home” were his mother had been just a little before she passed away. He met a girl that made him value certain thing and people in his life.
In “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant” and “Catch the Moon” each male character tried to impress a girl in there life whom they liked.The main character in this story is actually no one better but the own narrator W.D Wetherell. The main conflict in this story was that the narrator wanted to impress a girl he had a crush on for such a long time. When he finally got her to go out on a date with him he wanted to show her how good of a fisher he was but then found out she hated fishing. In this story the character changes by first letting go of what he enjoyed the most but at the end nothing worked and did not benefit him at all. The girl in the story left him for some other guy. By reading this story we also learn that when people are in love it is better to be ones self instead of changing to try to impress anyone. Also that the person should like us for who we are and not for someone we are not and by doing that we can find out if the person really cares about us.
The main characters in the story “ Catch the Moon” are a young boy named Luis and a girl named Noami.” Luis’s mom died after getting incredibly sick and not being able to recover. Luis had trouble forgetting about it. One night while driving he happened to stop in front of the Ramirez Funeral home were he could not stop crying. While going through the thoughts he realized he should get the hubcap he needed for Noami and that maybe it was not so bad cleaning all the hubcaps for his dad. By doing that he noticed he was able to love and care for other people that were in his life.This story’s message is that people should be able to care about themselves first and always but still have consideration and care for others involved in there lives as well.
Love can cause people to do things that they normally do not do. In both stories mentioned above both males changed for a girl. One male changes but benefits nothing and the other male changes and learns that he should care for the people involved in his life. The main Idea in the story comparison is about both story's having to make a decision in the end of each story. Both stories teach people valuable lessons about love and life.