Deep Water Responce Essay

About 7000 people in the U.S. die each year from drowning. The writer in "Deep Water", William Douglas, could have been one of those unfortunate people. He was thrown into a pool without warning by an 18 year old person into the deep end. If it was me I would be swimming up to the top but William had no idea how to swim. When I first read this story I was thinking of a encounter with me drowning also.

I was really young and my family and I were at a hotel. Once we got there my sisters wanted to go to the pool. So we did and I was going to swimming lessons so my family didn't pay attention to me. I looked around and we were the only ones there. Mom and Mandy were talking near the rim of the pool, Brittney and Court are doing tricks in the water, and Dad was on the phone talking to his buddy from work. I remembered I brought floaties incase I was getting tired of swimming and just wanted to float.  They were on the blue rim of the pool and then I had an idiotic idea. Jumping on the edge of the pool I slip the Freddie the Fish floaties on my ankles and leaped into the water standing, thinking I was so smart.

"Mom, look!" I yelled, but she didn't hear me. So I tried walking over there. With my first step I tried to keep my balance, but tipped over face first! You would think that I would just twist my body and get up but the floaties made me like a weeble toy, it stayed one way and that was face down feet up. I was at the deep end so can't walk with my arms to the shallow end. My mom was in the pool and I could see her waist down. Water was pushing against my mouth like people trying to ram doors down. It took over two or three minutes  . I reached my mom and banged on her leg like me playing a gong. She lift me up and I was gasping for air, cleaning the chlorine out of my eyes. Mandy was calling me a loser. I couldn't disagree.

Although "Deep Water" is how a man conquers his fear unlike me who will not try that ever again. Also he took swimming lessons and I don't remember hearing that there is a top notch walking on water with floaties program going on any time soon. Even though I didn't conquer my fear of standing on water we have drowning experiences.