Note making of Deep Water English book chapter “Deep Water” is written by William Douglas which is taken from from author’s autobiography ‘Of Men & Mountains’. In this chapter, the writer tells his fear about water and how he overcomes it. The chapter “Deep Water” is a very interesting chapter in the Class 12 book and also a very inspiring story. Here we have a short note-making of this chapter so students can study easily during their exam time with the help of this note making of Deep Water.
Theme Of Deep Water
The lesson Deep Water is to acquaint the readers that it is not death but the fear of death that scares one and all of us. We must fight the fear otherwise it will overpower our mind. Moreover, past memories can leave great impact on human’s mind. “Deep Water’ deals with the childhood fear of Author. A misadventure at the YMCA pool Created fear of water in his mind and he suffered from a phobia called “hydrophobia”.
This chapter foucs on the fact that childhood fear must never be treated lightly. If they are not tackled, then they can make deep inroads into one’s psychology. Author analyses his fear and fight against it and finally determines to overcome it. Here is note making of chapter deep water class 12
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Note Making Of Deep Water
1.INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 Autobiography
- 1.2 Author’s fear of water- when, why
- 1.3 How he finally overcome it.
- 1.4 Moral
2. Author’s Aversion To Water
- 2.1 Started when he was three or four yrs. old.
- 2.1.1 Beach in california with his father when 4 yrs old
- 2.1.2 knocked down by waves
- 2.1.3 buried in water, breath gone, frightened
- 2.2 ‘Misadventure’ at the YMCA
- 2.2.1 thrown in pool
- 2.2.2 couldn’t come up
- 2.2.3 almost drowned
3. Impact of YMCA event
- 3.1 weak and trembling
- 3.2 shook and cried when he lay on his bed
- 3.3 for days a haunting fear remained in his heart.
- 3.4 slightest exertion upset his stomach, made him wobbly in the knee and sick in the stomach
- 3.5 never went back to pool
4.Subsequent fears
- 4.1 fear remained in a river or pool; legs would become paralyzed.
- 4.2 icy horror would grab his heart.
- 4.3 deprived Douglas of enjoying
- 4.3.1 water sports, fishing trips, canoeing
5.Conquering his fear
- 5.1 Engaged an instr. to learn swimming.
- 5.2 instr made him practice five days a week, an hour every day
- 5.3 put a belt around him.
- 5.4 a rope attached to the belt went through a pulley that ran on an overhead cable
- 5.5 instr. held on to the end of the rope.
- 5.6 the author went back and forth several times each day.
- 5.7 took 3 mths. to learn
- 5.8 instr. taught him to put his face under water and exhale
- 5.9 to raise his nose and inhale
- 5.10 instr. made him kick with his legs
- 5.11 piece by piece he finally learnt how to swim
6.Final victory over fear
- 6.1 learnt to swim, felt that the old fear would grip him again.
- 6.2 Went to lake. Wentworth-swam two miles across the lake.
- 6.3 swam the crawl, breaststroke, sidestroke and backstroke.
- 6.4 old sensation returned in miniature.
- 6.5 went up the Teton to Conrad Meadows, up the Conrad Creek Trail to Meade Glacier, camped by the Warm Lake.
- 6.6 swam across to the other shore and back
7.Draws a larger meaning from this exp
- 7.1 in death there is peace
- 7.2 there is terror only in the fear of death
- 7.3 experienced both the sensation of dying and the terror that fear it can produce;
- 7.4 will to live grew in him.
Abbreviations Used In Note Making Of Deep Water
The Abbreviations used in the above Note making of deep water is given below
| Yrs | Years |
| Instr. | instructor |
| Lk | lake |
| Mths | months |
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