Week 13: Aquatic Uncle

There are two prominent symbols in the aquatic uncle, land and sea. Throughout the story, there is a conflict or debate whether it is better to live on land or in the water as they did before. Land is used a symbol for change, progress, evolution and uncertainty while the water and is a symbol for stability, and certainty. The uncle who is still a fish argues that living in water is how they were intended to live, the narrator sees the shift to terrain as an exciting new prospect.
I believe a large theme in The Aquatic Uncle has to do with progress. As stated prior, the land is seen as a symbol of evolution and uncertainty and the narrator experiences this firsthand. He is still attached to the water because of his uncle and even the way he was born wasn't fully terrestrial, he struggles to keep up with his fiancee who is completely terrestrial but despite not being "more evolved" he still welcomed change and being a part of a worldwide shift, knowing the unyielding characteristics of his uncle and other animals who never evolved made them special in their own right.
Were I to alter to the aquatic uncle into a another medium such as film, I would likely shift the characters from fish and reptiles to humans and change the prehistoric environment to a rural v. urban setting. The narrator being someone from a small town that moved to the city, Lll being his fiancee who was born in the city and his uncle being an older man still living in the same hometown.