With Risk Comes Reward In The Ghost Of The Lagoon

“With Risk comes Reward” is a famous quote from Thomas Jefferson which also represents something in “The Ghost of The Lagoon.” What Sperry Armstrong was telling us was to take risks and be fearless. If you don’t take risks, you might not have the same life as you would before. Mako loves to run adventurous errands for his family, which he did to get bananas. Along the way, he finds a coral reef that looks like Tupa, a glowing white shark which leads him to facing his fears and wanting to fight Tupa that night. However, after his run for bananas, he does not have much light to fight Tupa so he quickly makes his way home. On the way, he runs into Tupa, a ghostly shark in the middle of the reef. Throughout the fight, his dog, Afa, falls of

Sometimes if you face your fears, you have fun in the end or just feel good and less anxious to do it. What Sperry Armstrong is trying to tell us is that being fearless can help your family, and the surrounding population. When he is paddling out to the other island to get bananas, he faces his fears and swears to kill Tupa and in the end, he relieved his anxiety. “Some night, when the all of the village was sleeping, Mako swore to himself that he would find out!” Which shows that he has a motivation to kill the shark and made him become fearless.He had some motivations to kill him also which is the next

For example, one motivation that drove Mako was winning the reward that the king gave for killing Tupa. “‘But King Opi Nui has offered a reward for his reward.’”Because Mako cares about his family, he wants to win a reward to help his family live.Some motivations have consequences. The consequence for this one is that he would not have a purpose to adventure anymore with no more chores because of the land. It is like the saying “With Risk comes reward” but backward,”With a reward, comes a risk.” Another one of Mako's motivations is to avenge his father, who died because of Tupa. “‘Your father, was one of the fishermen that died.” Because his dad died, Mako does not have a real friend or person to go on adventures with. The placeholder for that is his dog Afa, who always goes with him on adventures. This creates a lonely environment inside of him. The final motivation for him is his dog, Afa. Since Afa fell into the lagoon, he has a vulnerability, from Tupa. Mako loves Afa because his dad died and he does not really have a person to have fun with. All of these have a risk involved, which is dying to