But when my feet hit bottom I summoned all my strength and made what I thought was a great spring upwards. I imagined I would bob to the surface like a cork. (a ) Why did the narrator summon all his strength? (b) Where was the author while make above statement? (c) Which word in the extract is synonym of ‘jump’? (d)What is the distance narrator had to travel to come to the surface?
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it is the incident when a bully boy push the poet into the pool and he (poet) want to struggle to come uot from it.
Answer:
"But when my feet hit bottom I summoned all my strength and made what I thought was a great spring upwards. I imagined I would bob to the surface like a cork."
(a) Why did the narrator summon all his strength?
Ans. The narrator summoned all his strength when his feet touched the bottom because he wanted to make a big jump from under the water so that he could come out to the surface.
(b) Where was the author while make above statement?
Ans. The narrator was drowning in the Y.M.C.A swimming pool, nine feet below the surface level as a senior boy bullied him by throwing him into the deep end of the pool.
(c) Which word in the extract is synonym of ‘jump’?
Ans. The synonym of "jump" is "spring".
(d)What is the distance narrator had to travel to come to the surface?
Ans. To come on to the surface from underwater, the narrator had to travel nine feet which seemed ninety to him at that moment of terror.
Explanation:
The above lines are taken from the story "Deep Water" by William Douglas.
The story reveals how as a young boy William Douglas nearly drowned in a swimming pool and developed a phobia in water. Here he tells us how he overcame his fear of water with the help of an instructor. Finally he became successful in learning swimming.
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