The Life of Nemo

by Sidney Toohey

Nemo is a young naive fish who is just getting used to the ocean. He is small and blue, so he blends in.

As he is swimming along he meets a big fish called Bubbles, who is a brown tuna. Nemo thinks Bubbles is a friend but Bubbles wants to eat Nemo. When Nemo sees Bubble’s sinister grin he knows that Bubbles is going to eat him. “Oh no,” says Nemo as he frantically tries to swim away. Unfortunately Bubbles is faster.

While Bubbles is eating Nemo, a bigger meaner octopus sneaks up on Bubbles.

The purple octopus is Armstrong. She is small but is known for aggressiveness and teasing her food.

 When Bubbles turns around, she strikes. Bubbles puts up a struggle and thinks that he will escape. “I have you now and you will not escape,” says Armstrong. It is no use, Armstrong has a grip on him and she refuses to let go. Bubbles finally accepts the inevitable, goes limp, and she eats him.

Unknown to Armstrong, the deadly Bruce, who is attracted to the struggle, is watching from a distance. He enjoys violence and starts fights with other sharks just to show his strength.

He is hungry and waits for a chance to scare Armstrong. She turns around and screams when she sees him. She swims away but nothing is faster than Bruce who catches her with ease.

As Bruce rests, an annoying metal object drops in front of him. He attacks it. His jaws go past the object catching his great mouth. He feels pain as the object tugs at him with more power than this great creature. “What is going on?” thinks Bruce. It pulls him up to the surface of the ocean and on to a small fishing boat. Noticing that Bruce is unusually heavy the fisherman cuts him open and finds Armstrong. Armstrong is also heavy, so the fisherman cuts her open as well and finds Bubbles, who also gets cut open. Inside all of these fish is the small minnow Nemo who starts struggling.

Nemo jumps up and down until he reaches the edge of the boat and quickly jumps into the sea and swims away to live another day. Wait, the story is not over yet.

As a small fish named Oscar is swimming along, a very large shark, Jaws, feared by all the fish in the sea, follows close behind. While this is happening, another fisherman is above the water preparing to make the catch. Jaws sees Bill, the fisherman, and strikes. With incredible force, he destroys the boat and any evidence of him ever being there.