Repeated in the Words of the Teacher,

¶ … repeated in the words of the teacher, and this ties it together better. The main topic of the essay is to learn to look at something in a new and different way. This helps someone to see something for what it really is, instead of only seeing what is on the surface when the first look is taken. By making the author look at the fish over and over again, the teacher showed him that there was a lot more to be seen. This was true not only of the fish but of everything else in life. Because of the interesting tone of the essay, it is easy for the reader to feel how upset the author is getting, and then how interested he becomes in the fish after he learns how much there is to see.

The essay is approached as a narrative because it is much more interesting to read something that is written like a story than it is to read something that is written in technical language or as a list of what has to be done to see things the way they should be seen. The way the author talks about the transition from his feelings of anger to his feelings of interest helps the reader understand how important seeing things clearly has become to the author, and that the reader should try to do the same thing. It becomes a lesson about how to understand life better and learn more about all things.