Daymara Fernandez

When I was 5 years old, I was diagnosed with 3rd stage pancreatic cancer. This caused my parents to divorce, and my mother started to drink because she missed my dad a lot. My grandfather had a heart-attack, and my grandmother soon died afterwards. I was going to chemo, and the doctors said I would not make it past the age of 3. Because of my mom's alcohol abuse, we were broke, living in the streets. The year was 2004, and it was a cold night in New York. Until I saw an advertisement for the upcoming Dreamworks film, "Shark Tale." It had Oscar dancing on the table to "Hammer Time," and I was left shocked from how amazing the animation looked. I asked my mom if we could go see it, and she said no. Every night I would dream with watching the movie, even writing fanfiction about Oscar and I ever since I was young. Sykes and Oscar were my first crushes. Then, my cancer got worse. We didn't have any money to pay for the expensive medical bills. I was going to one of my last treatments, and I was in the waiting room. On the tv in the waiting room was playing "Shark Tale," it was at the scene where Oscar calls Sykes "puff daddy." I watched through most of the film before going in, and when I did, my doctor said that my Cancer had been cured. I could not believe the blessing from the lord: not only was my cancer cured, I had watched Shark Tale on the same day. I still think I was cured because of me watching that movie. My mom was watching it with me in the waiting room, and she stopped drinking. My mom got a job, and bought me the Shark Tale DVD soon afterwards. We would watch it every night before bed. One night, we were in the living room, when we heard a knock on the door. I opened it, and it was my dad, who then came back to live with us. Only a few months later, my life was back together, and my grandma got into a car crash. She loved the movie as much as all of us, and we played the "Car Wash" song at her funeral. I became extremely depressed after that. I would get bullied in school, because my hair had not grown back since the chemo therapy. My school decided to hold a play from the theater, recreating Shark Tale. I immediately signed up for the role of Oscar. I knew all the lines by heart, and I got the role for him. I did the play a few months later, and my role as the Shark slayer was so good that the kids stopped bullying me. I did my 4th grade narrative essay on Shark Tale, and I got a 6 on the exam. I did my college essays on it now that I'm applying to college. I am so grateful for this movie, I have made many friends. My best friend Angie loves the movie as much as I do. This movie has cured my depression, and has given me hope that one day I will be loved not for my money, but for being myself. I hope that my future children will love this movie as much as I do. It has accompanied me through the good and the bad. I only wish that this movie would of gotten a sequel so I could enjoy more of Lenny and him being a vegetarian. This is the best movie I have ever watched. If there is a heaven, it is in the Shark Tale universe. My grandfather is washing whales with Oscar right now. :,)