Alan Rodriguez
Janel Spencer
WRT 101S
17 October 2019
Ocean Man
When I was little I was just like any other kid; I had reasonable fears such as monsters, spiders, etc. These things were either not real or not very harmful, so I had nothing to worry about. Since I was from Arizona, I only imagined the ocean was a place where fish lived, and people went swimming occasionally. Little did I know the treacherous and terrifying things that lye within it. At the age of about 5, I went to my grandmother’s house to meet up with my cousins and hang out.We would all go to the one room that had a TV that wasn’t in the living room. As The night got darker the kids shows would stop playing so I left the room. I decided to go back a little later because some of my older cousins were still in there and I wanted to hang with them. Unbeknownst to me, they were watching one of the most notorious horror films about the ocean, “JAWS.” It only took about 10 minutes for me to see this big creature that lives in the ocean attack and kill someone on screen. I immediately left the room without saying a word. I went to the living room trembling like I was outside in a snow storm. My aunt had asked me, “What movie are you guys watching?” I replied with an eerie tone, “JAWS.” She told me that she is terrified of sharks and won’t go in the ocean because of that movie. I had no idea that this monster was real until that moment. This small but vivid memory led me not to only fear the ocean and sharks, but to want to study and learn more about them.
When I started 1st grade I had noticed this cool looking 3D learning book about sharks and I knew I had read it every day in order to know my foe.
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