When I read the Aquatic Uncle the themes that I found most interesting were the themes of family and of generations. What I found interesting about the theme of family was that these creatures all made the choice whether or not they wanted to leave their family roots and head to land or whether they wanted to stay and continue living their life underwater, but, even with moving to different parts of their own world, the family still remained close together and makes the effort to see each other. Though the theme piggybacks off the theme of family slightly, I found the theme of generations to be very interesting as well. The reason why I found this interesting was because of the way that the generations interacted with each other, and how the older generation (such as Uncle N’ba N’ga) was less open to change and wanted to keep things the way they were. While, on the other hand, the younger generation was trying to be a catalyst for change by trying to convince their uncle to move and by them choosing to move themselves to this new world that was above the water’s surface. While reading the story the biggest connection that is saw between the story and our own world was the idea of environment. I thought the idea of environment connected most strongly to our own world is because, like in the story, everyone is shaped differently on the environment of which they were raised in and how it plays such a major part in our life.