Deep Water

The short story by William O. Douglas had vivid description. For example in the beginning when he said he didn’t want to show his cold bare skinny legs he not only described the way they felt he also described the way they looked which gave you a better description of how he felt and looked. Also he described the teenager who pushed him in the water looked. He described him as a big bruiser of a boy, probably eighteen or nineteen which not only told you he was big and strong he also told us how old he was about 18 or 19. In this short story William O. Douglas is trying to tell us that we can overcome our fears.
For example if you are scared of heights you can overcome that fear if you just work at it by maybe going somewhere higher every day or hike up a small mountain in your free time . No matter what fear you have you can always ask someone you trust. So basically what he is saying is if you are scared of something you shouldn’t avoid it just. You should try to overcome it. That was a life lesson that it took him years to learn and because it took him years to learn he wrote this short story so you wouldn’t make the same mistakes that he did. Another thing this book symbolizes is what you can accomplish
Overcoming your fears is one thing, but if you have a fear in basketball like going to the free throw line to shoot free throws because you miss them all the time. If you work on it you can make it your strength so you like going to the line instead of fearing it. That is something he did. He used to fear going into the water because he couldn’t swim but as he got older he learned to swim and eventually liked going into the water.
So in the short story “Deep Water” William O. Douglas shows good description when he describes not only himself, but also the big teenager when he called him a big bruiser of a boy. So over all William O. Douglas is just trying to tell us that we can overcome our fears.