Why does Douglas as an adult recount a childhood experience of terror and his conquering of it? What larger meaning does he draw from his experience?
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As an adult, Douglas recalls a childhood experience of water terror. He wants to analyse the root cause of this fear, which started when he was three or four years old. Then his father took him to the beach in California. His father and Douglas stood together amidst the waves between the rocks and shore. He hung on to his father, yet the waves knocked him down and pushed him suddenly. he was buried in water. His breath was gone. He was frightened. Though his father laughed, but there was strong fear in his heart at the overpowering force of the waves. Thus, from beginning, howsoever, Douglas had an aversion to the water when he was in it.
The significance of Douglas's recount of his childhood experience is that it was the basis on which he made his firm mind to overcome this fear. He drews a larger meaning from this experience that there is terror only in the fear of death. All one has to fear is fear itself.
William Douglas had experienced both the sensation of dying and the terror that the fear of it can produce. He was feeling the will to live somehow grew in intensity.
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As an adult, Douglas recalls a childhood experience of water terror. He wants to analyse the root cause of this fear, which started when he was three or four years old. Then his father took him to the beach in California. His father and Douglas stood together amidst the waves between the rocks and shore. He hung on to his father, yet the waves knocked him down and pushed him suddenly. he was buried in water. His breath was gone. He was frightened. Though his father laughed, but there was strong fear in his heart at the overpowering force of the waves. Thus, from beginning, howsoever, Douglas had an aversion to the water when he was in it.
The significance of Douglas's recount of his childhood experience is that it was the basis on which he made his firm mind to overcome this fear. He drews a larger meaning from this experience that there is terror only in the fear of death. All one has to fear is fear itself.
William Douglas had experienced both the sensation of dying and the terror that the fear of it can produce. He was feeling the will to live somehow grew in intensity.
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Douglas as an adult recounts a childhood experience of terror and his conquering it because the experience had a deep meaning for him. He had been through a stark terror and conquered it. The larger meaning that he had drawn from his experience is that there is terror only in the fear of death as Roosevelt had once said “all we have to fear is the fear itself”. Douglas had experienced both the sensation of dying and the terror that it can produce, the will to live had grown in intensity.
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