1. Win Got Hops
“Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming,” is a
popular phrase for the all-time great movie of Nemo. This story is about a goldfish,
Win, who has a similar story to that of Nemo’s, but he didn’t get taken and loss.
When I say Win’s story is similar, I mean that by he was not born with complete fins.
One of them did not grow all the way. Win’s story teaches a life lesson of never
giving up and accepting yourself as whom you are.
Win, as many other goldfish, lived in an aquarium waiting to be adopted and
taken to a new home. He never had the chance to grow and meet other goldfish
because of the constant adopting and even dying of goldfish from brain injuries of
small children who like to “wake up” the goldfish by tapping on the window. It was
normal for Win to feel lonely because nobody wanted anything to do with him
because he was “different.” He hated himself because of his birth defect and even
tried to take his life, but it was hard for him considering he is a fish.
What Win thought was his day because he was being adopted; he was
adopted out spite of a sale for five goldfish for one dollar. Therefore, groups of five
goldfish were place together to be sold. An old man adopted Win’s group. The old
man didn’t waste anytime and took them home and placed them in a glass fish bowl.
Win finally had his chance to get to meet his newly family, Tin, Tony, and Sam, which
he would be living with for the rest of his life. As many other goldfish, his new family
shunned him.
Not too long after being rejected, Win was suddenly placed into a different
bowl. He did not know why and he quickly assumed it was because of his fin. Well,
his assumption was right. The old man called the pet store asking for a refund
because one of his fish was not healthy. As the bitter old man complained and Win
listened, Tin, Tony, and Sam started to feel remorse. A couple minutes go by and Win
finally speaks up to his family and says, “I’m tired of being mistreated! I am who I
am. I cannot help I have a birth defect! It’s me. It’s who I am and if you all don’t like it
then you all should be ashamed of yourselves. I’m not going to beat myself up about
it anymore.”
Tin, Tony, and Sam stood there in complete stupidity not knowing what to
say because they knew Win was right and they were wrong. They quickly apologized
and invited Win into the same fish bowl as them. Win got excited to finally have
friends and with the adrenaline he had, he jumped from one bowl to the other. The
goldfish and even Win was stunned by his jump. As the family welcomes Win, the
old man realizes all the gold fish together and thinks for a second that he has gone
crazy. To clear the freakiness, Win jumps back and forth from bowl to bowl
entertaining the old man. Tin, Tony, and Sam try to jump too, but couldn’t get as
high as Win to get to the other bowl.
In the end, the old man was fascinated by Win’s ability to go from one bowl to
another. The family ends up staying happily together. The moral of the story is,
again, to not put others down because they are “different” than you because for
what we know, we don’t even know what normal is. Although, Win has a disability,
he had an ability no other goldfish had. The end.