Describe Douglas’s condition when he was in the pool?

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What did Douglas experience as he went down to the bottom of the pool for the first time?

Douglas went down to the bottom of nine feet deep water for the first time. Nine feet seemed to him like more than ninety feet. He grew panicky. Before, he could touch the bottom, his lungs were about to burst. He felt paralysed. He was buried in the water. His breath was gone and terror overpowered his heart.

Once Douglas was alone on the YMCA pool. A bully boy tossed him into the deep end of water. He was frightened beyond measure but did not lose his wits. He took a big jump from the bottom, came to the surface and paddled to the edge of the pool. The drowning incident affected his later life deeply. He found only terror in the fear of death. He experienced both the censation of dying and terror caused by fear of dying. The will to live grew higher in him.

One day William Douglas was sitting alone on one side of the Y.M.C.A. pool. He was waiting for the others to come so that he could start swimming. By chance there came a big burly boy of an eighteen years old. He asked “Hi, Skinny! How’d you like to be ducked?” He picked and tossed Douglas and threw him into the deep end of the pool. William speaks about this misadventure.

A bully boy tossed the narrator into the deep end of the Y. M. C. A. pool. The water had a yellow glow. He grew panicky on reaching the bottom. He made a great spring upward but saw nothing else but water. He sucked for air but only got water. Stark terror which is beyond control and understanding seized him. Even his screams were frozen. Only his heart and brain said that was still alive.

When Douglas was in the deep end of the pool, he was suffocating. Nine feet seemed to him like more than ninety feet. Before he could touch the bottom, his lungs were about to burst. He tried to gather all his power and sprang upward. He came up slowly. He saw water everywhere. He felt paralysed and grew panicky. He cried but all in vain.