The deep waters by william douglas. Guide amd summary

 Deep waters written by William Douglas is a story which teaches us that all we have to fear is fear itself. We are supposed to be strong and move towards our fear fearlessly so that fear itself leaves us and does not dare to come back again. The story depicts how the narrator had been afraid of water due to his past horrible experience. That fear he felt when he was ten or eleven years old came running behind him and how after lots of struggle, patience and hardwork he finials overcomes his fear challenging it to never come back again. Through this story he teaches us to do the same.

The story begins with Douglas conveying about his past that how he had decided to learn to swim in Y.M.C.A. pool in Yakima. The river was unpredictable due to which his mother warned him not to go to the river however the pool was safe as it was shallow and only 2 to 3 feet deep and 9 feet deep at the deep end. He tells us how he started fearing water when he was small only 3 or 4 years old in California beach with his father when a wave knocked him down and swept over him. He was buried in water, he got frightened and his breath was gone for a moment. Since then he started fearing water.

In the Y.M.C.A pool he was now confidently swimming thought remembering his past wasn't pleasant for him, when a misadventure happened. There was a group of boys among one who was probably 18 years old picked him up and tossed him into the deep edge of the pool. He started going to the bottom and was frightened but not out of his with. He made up a plan to jump as soon as he reaches the bottom of the pool and come to the surface and then lie flat on and paddle to the edge. But it seemed a long way downwards his lings were nearly about to burst and when his feet touched the bottom he collected all his strenght amd then jumped upwards  it he came up slowly. He opened his eyes bit could see nothing but water then he started to panic and slowly suffocating he tried to cry for help but no sound came out. Then his eyes and nose came out of water but not his mouth. He swallowed water and then chocked he was paralysed with fear and then some irriestible force pulled him down he still remembered his plan but his lungs started to acheive he lost his breath. A sheer stark terror seized him slowly and everything started becoming dark and their was no fear only relaxation prevailed.

For many years he couldn't go for fishing,canoeing and boating. His fear would come back and would haunt him. Then he decided to get an instructor. The instructor put a belt around him, a rope was attached to the belt. He pulled the belt through the a pulley that ran on an overhead cable. He held on to the end of the rope and went back and forth across the pool hour after hour day after day. On each trip across the pool panic stuck him yet the instructor relaxed him. His terror would come back but finally after three months his fear became a bit less. The instructor then taught him to put his face under water and exhale and to raise his nose up and intake. Slowly and steadily he started to improve and built a good swimmer. 

Later he went to a lake Wentworth in new Hampshire where he swam two miles and the beast(terror)  tried to return yet he chased him away and proved to be a strong person. 

SOME IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER:

1)how did Douglas first get his fear?

2) what he claims to be a misadventure?

3) what we're the things he couldn't do due to his fear?

4) how did his instructor built a swimmer out of him?

5) elaborate 'all we have to fear is fear itself!'