12th English 3. DEEP WATER {All Question Answer} & summary

 

3.Deep Water

                                                            -William Douglas

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William Douglas- He was born in the year of 1898 in the city Minnesota. He was a good friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt. As well as he was his adviser also. He had got double degree in graduation first in English and Economic. After graduating he spent two years teaching high school in Yakima. When he got tired of this and decided to pursue a legal career. Douglas was a leading advocate of individual rights. He retired in 1975 and died in 1980 . This present story is an autobiographical, in this story he reveals how as a young boy

THINK AS YOU READ

Answer the following question

11.  What is the  “misadventure” that William Douglas speaks about?

Ans:- When William Douglas was ten or eleven years old ,he was trying to learn swimming with the help of his water wings. One day when he was sitting alone on the side of the pool and waiting for another boy to come, a big bruiser boy come and pick him up and threw him into nine feet deep water . He tried to come out of water, but he failed. He survived somehow this is the misadventure that William Douglas speaks about.

22.  What were the series  of emotion and fears that Douglas experienced when he was thrown into the pool? What plans did make to come to the surface?

Ans:- There was series of emotion and fears that Douglas experienced when he was  thrown into the pool. He was quiet frightened. When he was going under water those nine feet were more like ninety feet. He had some plane also but before touched the bottom his lungs were ready to brust.

                   When he was under water he made a plane to come to the surface. His plane was to hit the bottom as he would touch it . But his plane could not success as he imagined.

33.  How did this experience effect him?

Ans:- This experience effected him greatly after several hour later he walked home he was weak and trembling. He could not  that night. There was a haunting fear in his heart. The slightest exertion made him upset. He was as frightened as he never went back to the pool.

44.  Why was Douglas determined to get over his fear of water?

Ans:- Douglas was determined to get over his fear of water because this fear of water had deprived him from many things. It had ruined his all joy related to water. He was unable to enjoy in water. It had deprived him of the joy of boating  and swimming and fishing. He used every way to overcome this fear of water  but he could not get success. It had held him firmly in its grip . There was a great terror in his heart. He wanted to come out this fear at any cost because due to this fear of water he was unable to enjoy fishing, boating, canoeing and swimming.

55. How did the instructor “build a swimmer” out of Douglas?

Ans:- Douglas used every way that he knew to overcome his fear of water but this fear of water held him firmly in its grip. When he could not get success finally one October he decided to get and instructor and learn to swim. The instructor took him in a swimming pool and put a belt around him. The instructor attached  a rope to the belt went through a pulley that ran on an over head cable . The instructor held on to the end of the rope. Douglas  went back and forth across the pool. He practiced hour after hour day after day and week after week.

               The instructor taught him every way of swimming . After that the instructor taught him how to put his face under water and how to raise his nose out of water and how to inhale and exhale. Thus the instructor build a swimmer out of Douglas.

66. How did Douglas make sure that he conquered the old-terror?

Ans:- When Douglas learned to swim, he swam across the pool. But he was not satisfied. He went to warm lake and swam into it finally he realized that he had conquered the old-terror.

 

Short and Extra Question

1. What happened with Douglas? When he was three or four years old?

Ans:- When he was three or four years old his father took him to the beach of California. They were standing in the surf. Douglas was hanging on to his father, yet the waves knocked him down and swept over him. He was buried in water his breath was gone. He was frightened but his father laughed. From that day there was a great terror in his heart.

2. What did he decided? When he was ten or eleven years old?

Ans:- When Douglas was ten or eleven years old he decided to learn swimming. He went to aswimming pool with a pair of water wings.

3. What happened swimming pool with Douglas?

Ans:- One day Douglas went to the swimming pool when no one was there. He was timid about going in alone. So, he sat a side the pool. After sometime a young boy come there. He yelled and tossed him into the deep end. He was nearly drowned in swimming pool.

4. What plane he made to come to the surface?

Ans:- When he was tossed into the deep end, he landed in sitting position and went at once to the bottom. Going under water he made a plane as soon as his hite the bottom. He would  make a big jump and come to the surface. After that he would lieflat on it and paddle to the edge of the pool.