Nemo and the Sharks, The Parable of Nemo II

Nemo entered the school with excitement. At last, this is a place that he is comfortable in. After all, he had spent all his life in school. How could this school in the ocean be any different from the aquariums’? He is confident that he will find his way around the school.
Nemo is dead wrong. Little did he know that he is in the SSSS meaning Shrewd Smiling Sharks’ School. Sharkies have strong personalities. They say what they think and get what they want. They are aggressive and clever. Early on in these young sharkies mind, they were taught by adult sharks to fend for themselves; to attack first or else they will be attacked. This ‘attack mode’ which is supposedly to protect self became a powerful shield to blind the self as well. If one is not careful, he will point at the fault of others without seeing his own. In the end, personal introspection is denied and blaming someone else will be the norm. To be tough is popular while to be gentle is unheard of . This is an insight to the S.S.S.S. Note that these sharkies are friendly, smart and smiling sharks. It just happened that they have been trained in a certain way to survive the life in the ocean. Nonetheless, little sharkies seemed to loom too big for Nemo.
You see, Nemo doesn’t know how to assert himself. He is usually timid and soft spoken. Amidst the sharkies, Nemo felt so small and insecure. He is so cautious and scared of being attacked without reason. In order to cope in the SSSS, Nemo has to be stronger than usual: to assert for his rights, to speak up (and speak out loud) and to ‘jump for the kill or else he will be killed’ syndrome. In his first six weeks of school, Nemo felt drained and heavily laden in keeping up with the SSSS.