Qfwfq In-Class Essay

Thesis: Q is torn between two worlds, the world that he wants for hiself, and the world that the other characters see.

In The Aquatic Uncle, Q meets what he thinks to be the love of his life, but all that canges when she meets his Uncle. Q takes his fiancee Lll to a part of the lake where he describes his family, and that is when his Uncle N'ba N'ga shows up. Lll and the uncle instantly have a connection, where they view the world in the same way. That is the time when Q finds out that he is losing Lll to his uncle, whom he is ashamed of for being a fish.

"Had I lost her? Suspecting this, I hastened to woo her back, I took to performing all sorts of feats[...] I was proud of myself, but unfortunately whenever I did something brave, she wasn't there to see me," (80).

Q and Lll are similar, but the differences they share tell them apart form each other. Q wants to start a family with Lll right away, in a spot that they will inhabit as their own. But Lll is still trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and the Uncle lets her do that. With the uncle, she can branch out from her usual self, and with Q she's another person that she's not. This is how Q sees th two different worlds that he hs to deal with.

In The Dinosaurs, Q abandoned the rest of the dinosaurs and lived to be the only dinosaur left in that time period. Soon, he discovers a new species, The New Ones, that Q stays with. Even though they are unaware that Q is a dinosaur, they talk immensely about what the dinosaurs were, and the chance that they might still be with them. "I continued looking at the skeleton, the father. the brother, my counterpart, my self[...] everything we had been and were no longer, our majesty, our faults, our ruins," (109). In this story, how Q is separated in his two worlds are, hiding his true self from the New Ones, and also just starting over and living a new life.

Also in The Dinosaurs, Q has discovered how The New Ones were still in search of the dinosaurs. Q has his two worlds moment here when he wants to tell them he is a dinosaur, but doesn't want to tell them because of what they might think of him. "Now the stories of Dinosaurs became jokes, in which the terrible monsters played ridiculous roles." (107) This shows what might happen if Q had told them about him being a dinosaur.