The Whale And The Shrimp Analysis

The Whale and the Shrimp Once, long, long ago Shawn and his friends were hanging out in the sand yard. He and his friends didn’t get along perfectly, but they had fun together, most of the time. Bennett was being a fish-face (as per usual) since he was the biggest of all the shrimp. Shawn was the smallest of all his shrimp friends resulting in him being the target of most of Bennett’s teasing. It was on that day, a Tuesday in July, Bennett pushed Shawn over the edge. He had told Shawn his tail was small. Shawn decided he’d had enough of Bennett’s tormenting. He swam right up to him and slapped Bennett across the face with his tail fin. Consequently, Bennett was enraged. “You better swim for your life, you shark scum.” bellowed Bennett. And …show more content…
The five of them paddled into the cave, right up to Shawn. All of a sudden, a deep rumbling noise sounded and the cave began to move. The six shrimp shook in fear, not knowing what was going on. So this isn’t a cave after all, Shawn thought. “This isn’t a cave you nut heads, it’s a Whale!” Anna screeched. All of them tried swimming towards the entrance of “the cave” but failed. They struggled to stay all together, but managed to stay within a few inches of each other. Before they knew it, they were gliding down the whale’s tongue, thinking they were being digested. But no, the six shrimp shot out the blow hole of the whale. Screeching profusely, Shawn was in awe of what had just happened, the others were nowhere in sight as he flew through the salty air. He thought to himself that he should’ve hit the water by now but he kept drifting through the air. Within a few minutes all six shrimp were floating peacefully in space now as bright, gigantic stars looking down at, the place they’d once called their home, Earth. They knew they needed to learn how to deal with their anger towards each other if they were going to spend the rest of their lives living in close proximity. It took a lot of hard work and effort, but they learned. Over the years the six shrimp have been in many more arguments, fights and tussles. Therefore, they learned that even when you get angry or annoyed with anyone, violence is never the