DEEP WATER_ William Douglas UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT.

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DEEP WATER_ William Douglas

UNDERSTANDIG THE TEXT.

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1.     What did William Douglas decide to do when he was 10?

2.    Why did William Douglas’s mother warn him for not going to Yakima River for swimming?

3.    In what way the YCMA pool was safe?

4.    Why did William Douglas hate to walk naked into the pool?

5.    Yakima River is the tributary of which river?

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6.    Why William Douglas had an aversion for water from the beginning?

7.    When was the aversion for water developed in William Douglas?

8.    While William Douglas was buried under water, what was his father’s reaction?

9.    What impact did this incident have on William Douglas?

10. What equipment William Douglas had in the beginning?

11.  How did he start swimming at YCMA, after how many days he felt at ease?

12. What misadventure happened to William Douglas at YCMA pool?

13. Give the pen picture of the bruiser?

14. What plan did William Douglas make to come up on the surface when he was tossed into the water by the bruiser?

15. Did hid plan work? What happened to him actually?

16. How did he feel underwater?

17. What was his condition when he reached the bottom of the pool?

18. What was his imagination to bounce back to the top like?
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19. What did he see when he opened his eyes?

20.What happened when he tried to yell for help in the water?

21. When he flailed what was his physical condition?

22.What does he compare his struggle to come up to?

23.At once he remembered a strategy to come up-what was that?

24.How did he feel when the sheer, stark terror seized him?

25.What does actually William Douglas mean to say ‘came a touch of reason’ amidst terror?

26.What does William Douglas compare the approaching of stark terror to?

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27.What happened when William Douglas was drowning for the third time?

28.How does William Douglas feel when ‘all efforts ceased’?

29.When William Douglas came back to senses where did he find himself? What was he doing?

30.How deep was the aftermath impact of it on William Douglas?

31. When does he again develop love for water?

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32.What did William Douglas do in October?

33.How did the instructor train him for swimming?

34.‘Piece by piece he built a swimmer’ what does he mean by it?

35.‘The instructor was finished but I was not finished’ what do you understand by this statement of William Douglas?

36.‘But I was still not satisfied’ till July, then what did William Douglas do to uproot the terror completely?

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37.Why did he choose Lake Wentworth in New Hampshire to swim further?

38.What swimming techniques did he administer while swimming in Lake Wentworth?

39.When ‘The old sensation returned in miniature’ what was William Douglas reply to it?

40.‘In death there is peace, ‘there is terror only in the fear of death’ what does William Douglas mean by this statement?

41. Roosevelt said, “All we have to fear is gear itself” What do you understand by this statement?