Describe a time you had divided interests. How did one interest win out over the other(s)? What factors came into play?
There were many where I had divided interests. For instance, I had to choose between sports, computers, and community service. I was really devoted to playing soccer and baseball, yet I loved to play around with computer software and hardware. I also loved helping the poor in my community. So I signed up for all three, computer science, sports, and community service. Yet I could only pick one, which was a real dilemma for me. In the end, I chose sports because of a few important reasons. At first, I eliminated computer science because I thought it wasn’t as important as sports and community service. Both sports and community had benefits, yet I chose sports for reasons, which seem selfish. Although community service had good benefits, such as helping the community and helping my self esteem. It got into my head that health and extra curricular activities for college were even more important. I believe that I thought the well-being of myself was the reason why I ruled out all the other factors for the other activities.
Also, how does the author foreshadow that the protagonist will be unsuccessful at wooing Sheila Mant?
Wetherell shows many indications that the protagonist will not be successful in wooing Sheila Mant. One primary indication is that she constantly does not seem to care much about the protagonist. When he is with her, she simply ignores him or answers his questions without much passion. For instance, when the protagonist would swim to and from the Vermont shore, Sheila Mant did not seem to care about his efforts. Also, Wetherall shows the difference in interest between the protagonist and Sheila Mant. An example would be when they were on the protagonist’s canoe to the fair, Sheila Mant would be talking about topics that the protagonist did not know about or seemed to care about. Sheila Mant called fishing, the protagonist’s favorite hobby, dumb. This difference in interest was a clear indication that the two did not match or cooperate; despite how much the protagonist admired Sheila Mant.
Hi Alex. Could you give examples directly from the text to support your claim?
ReplyDeleteHi Miss Lee, these are some examples from the text.
ReplyDeleteAn example from the text of Sheila Mant ignoring the protagonist was:
"...to win her attention would do endless laps between my house and the Vermont shore, hoping she would notice...but she was never watching." This shows how Sheila Mant didn't care much about the protagonists.
Another example from the text is when the protagonist was being a voyeur:
"She didn't seem surprised to see me - as a matter of fact, she didn't seem to see me at all." This is another example of Sheila ignoring the protagonist.
Another instance when Sheila didn't care about the protagonist is when he was asking Sheila to go to the fair:
"'...Want to go?' ... 'You have a car?'" This shows how Sheila didn't care about the protagonist as a person, but only cared about the way she was going to the fair.