This story is originally titled “ The Bass, The River, And Sheila Mant” . One conflict the poem talks about is between Sheila Mant and the boy, this conflict is an external conflict, which is person vs person. The antagonist is Sheila and the protagonist is the boy. Sheila tells the boy he is still too young to be fishing on his own, but the boy wants to fish on his own, and doesn’t want other people calling him a “kid”. The picture I drew next to the poem is a small fish and a big fish looking at each other, wishing they were the other fish. This shows the boy’s desire to become a man someday and not be called a “kid”