The Aquatic Uncle

     Q often goes back and forth between prideful arrogance and shameful embarrassment.

In the story “the aquatic uncle” it has many examples of Q doing both, being ashamed and prideful. For example Q is always being embarrassed, like when his uncle took his girlfriend and she tour his heart into bits. One example of Q being prideful was when he thought he should man up and show his girlfriend the uncle that he has which is also a fish. Here is one quote from the story. “I could have sunk into the ground with shame. And he said I'm not fooling! The worms you find there will fill your belly alright.” As you can see Q has his time of need and he was a whole lot of time when he was ashamed of him self just like in the quote above.

      Another example of Q trying to be prideful and help his uncle was when he said to his uncle to come with them and no one besides him is in the water. Since Q doesn’t really know his uncle and what he is about to say then Q is totally absent minded. Here is the quote from the story “We had made various attempts to get him up on land with us.”Again Q does not know when to stop and how to convince any one with his prideful arrogance. This part even has a example of when he got embarrassed in front of his girlfriend because when they left, Ill his girlfriend was happy to see his uncle but Q tried to show her why he did not want to show her his uncle in the first place. Q always has his ways of hurting him self just like in the other books about him.

      Q is very complicated because when he doesn’t want to do something he does it anyway because it gives him the temptation but when Q gets mad he really will go off someone, this is how he talks to his uncle “Go on with you tadpole when you’re wet again you'll be back home!” For that Q's pride got to him because in the end Q looses his girlfriend because of what his uncle said. This is what Q's uncle says to Ill “ If you're game sweetie, I can teach you in a minute!”

Q: “And what do you think you can do with a old fish.”

Ill: “Marry him. Be a fish again with him.”

As you can tell that is the worst kind of experience that any one can go through. All has been said and done by Q, he has his moments of pride and his moments of shame.