The narrators of "oranges" and "the bass, the river, and sheila mant" both experience the rite of passage of a: regret b: graduation c: young love/dating d: stranger's kindness

The correct answer is option C.

In "Oranges," the young narrator goes on a first date with a girl. It's winter time and they go to the drugstore together. He has an orange in his pocket and gets a chocolate for her. Then they hold hands until they eat the orange and the chocolate.

In "The Bass, The River and Sheila Mant," the adolescent narrator takes Sheila on a date on boat to the cinema. Sheila thinks fishing is stupid, so he hides the fishing rod and misses a large bass catch, which he later regrets.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.