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Question 1.
When did the author decide to learn swimming? Why did he join YMCA pool?
Answer:
The author decided to learn swimming at the age of ten or eleven years. There was a pool at the YMCA that offered that opportunity. The YMCA pool was quite safe. It was only two or three feet deep at the shallow end; and while it was nine feet deep at the other, the drop was gradual.
Question 2.
What did the author do to learn swimming at the YMCA pool?
Answer:
The author got a pair of water wings and went to the pool. He paddled with his new water wings, watching the other boys and trying to learn aping them. He did this two or three times on different times on different days and was beginning to feel at ease.
Question 3.
Why did Douglas’ mother recommend that he should learn swimming at the YMCA pool?
Answer:
The author wanted to learn swimming when he was ten or eleven years old. The river Yakima was dangerous. The author’s mother continually warned him against it and kept on telling him the incidents of drowning in it. But the YMCA pool was quite safe. Therefore she recommended YMCA pool to learn swimming.
Question 4.
Describe the author’s childhood experience when he was three or four years old?
Answer:
The author had an aversion to the water when he was three or four years old. His father took him to a beach in California. His father and he was standing together in the surf. Suddenly the waves knocked him down and swept over him. He was buried in the water. His breath was gone. This caused a terror in his mind of water.
Question 5.
What happened one day when the author was sitting alone beside the pool?
Answer:
One day the author went to the pool when no one was there. He was timid about going in the pool alone. So he sat on the side of the pool to wait for others. An eighteen year old boy came there and tossed the author into the pool thinking that the author might knew swimming.
Question 6.
How did the big boy throw the author into the pool?
Answer:
The big boy was about eighteen years old. He was a kind of bruiser. He yelled, ‘ Hi, Skinny! How’d you like to be ducked?’ With that he picked the author up and tossed him into the deep end. However, he later said that he was just fooling.