Question

a. How did the writer fight his terror while struggling to come out of water​

Answer 1

Answer:  

The story, “Deep Waters” tells us how the writer overcame his fear of water and learned swimming with sheer determination and will power. He had developed a terror of water since childhood. When he was three or four years old, the writer had gone to California with his father. One day on the beach, the waves knocked the child down and swept over him. The child was terrified but the father who knew, there was no harm, laughed. The experience bred a permanent fear of water in the child’s sub-conscious mind.

Answer 2

The writer fought his terror while struggling to come out of water​ by:

1. When Douglas(the writer) grew up, he took the help of an instructor to learn swimming. His training started in October and ended April. For three months he swam across the pool with the help of a rope.
2. As he went under, he was filled with terror and his legs froze. The instructor taught him to exhale under the water and inhale through his nose. He made him kick his legs to make his legs relax. Then he asked him to swim.
3. He continued swimming from April to July. Still  terror had not left him. He then swam 2 miles across Lake Wentworth and the whole length to the shore and back to Warm Lake. Then he overcame his fear of water.

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