“ Take The Fish and Look At It”
The professor wanted Scudder to do well and see what the professor seen more to the fish. Scudder is very frustrated, angered, and impatient. Scudder thought he had found out what the professor wanted him to see but he didnt. Scudder learned that there is more to the fish beyond his observations. When he he looked deeper, he analyzed his observations. With his abstract thinking he understood the fish more than he did before The professor kept pushing Scudder to think more abstract and keep trying, even though Scudder have been getting upset. Scudder writes, “I was piqued; i was mortified. Still more of that wretched fish” (41). Scudder was getting resentful towards the professor. But that made Scudder set a task to discover what the professor seen that he did not until he seen how the professor criticism had been. And that is what motivated Scudder.
At the end of the process Scudder was a new person. The professor made him think more than he did before. Scudder writes, “but what I gained by this outside experience has been of greater value than years of later investigation in my favorite groups” (43). So Scudder is talking about the ending of his eight months; he gained so much knowledge on how to think more outside and be more creative and never stop giving…show more content… Scudder would say that he has finally found the answer to what the professor wanted him to see but he still was wrong because he was not thinking how the professor wanted him to think. So then Scudder starts to feel all over the fish, from the sides, to the scales and even putting his finger in the fish mouth. He even tried harder and then found out what it was at the ending when the professor made Scudder push himself harder to make Scudder want to prove the professor wrong. When Scudder drew the fish on a piece of paper that made the professor happy because Scudder was on to