For my next mentor text, I decided to use the episode of SpongeBob titled "Boating School". In this episode SpongeBob is set to take his boating exam once again, however, as usual he does not know what he is doing. Terrified of failing his test yet again, he is forced to cheat. By using his friend Patrick from afar,
SpongeBob has Patrick give him the answers and tell him what to do during each part of the test.
As does my character Cody in my story, SpongeBob results to cheating instead of just facing reality and accepting the fact that he couldn't pass. I used SpongeBob's decision to cheat as a reference for my story. Although he knows it is the wrong decision, Cody cannot help but cheat in order to receive a passing grade, much like SpongeBob does to pass his boating exam. Filled with guilt and shame, SpongeBob reveals what he has done at the end of his exam because he cannot in all honesty accept a passing grade for the way in which he received it. I recognized the honesty in his decision and used it in my story. Although my character was caught cheating, at the end he came clean and confessed his mistake. I saw a lot of parallelism in my story and the episode of SpongeBob which is why I saw it necessary to use this as my mentor text.
