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Bharati Gahlot 5 years, 4 months ago
Gaurav Seth 5 years, 4 months ago
Douglas used the YMCA pool and not the Yakima river to learn swimming because the river was treacherous. His mother continually warned him against it and kept the details of each drowning in the river fresh in his mind. On the other hand the YMCA pool was safe, only two or three feet deep at the shallow end.
A misadventure at the YMCA pool wherein Douglas was thrown into the deeper end of the pool by a big boy made Douglas afraid of water. He went down into the water three times but failed to come up. Though he was ultimately saved, a terror of water developed in him as his lungs filled with water. His head throbbed and his legs felt paralysed thus making him fear water permanently.
Posted by Vikas Sharma 5 years, 4 months ago
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 4 months ago
Douglas used the YMCA pool and not the Yakima river to learn swimming because the river was treacherous. His mother continually warned him against it and kept the details of each drowning in the river fresh in his mind. On the other hand the YMCA pool was safe, only two or three feet deep at the shallow end.
A misadventure at the YMCA pool wherein Douglas was thrown into the deeper end of the pool by a big boy made Douglas afraid of water. He went down into the water three times but failed to come up. Though he was ultimately saved, a terror of water developed in him as his lungs filled with water. His head throbbed and his legs felt paralysed thus making him fear water permanently.
Posted by Vikas Sharma 5 years, 4 months ago
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Bharati Gahlot 5 years, 4 months ago
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His fear of water ruined his fishing trips. It deprived him of the joy of canoeing, boating, and swimming. Douglas used every way he knew to overcome this fear he had developed ’since childhood. Even as an adult, it held him firmly in its grip. He determined to get an instructor and learn swimming to get over this fear of water.
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Posted by Himanshi Rao 5 years, 4 months ago
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Bharati Gahlot 5 years, 4 months ago
Gaurav Seth 5 years, 4 months ago
After the security check at the airport, the poet stood a few yards away and looked towards her mother once more.
After looking at her mother, the poet was overwhelmed with her childhood fear of losing her parents and going away from them for a long time.
Despite her fear, she puts up a smile so that her mother is not tensed.
Posted by Vikas Sharma 5 years, 4 months ago
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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 4 months ago
After his misadventure in the pool at the Y.M.C.A., Douglas was amidst the fear of water. He realised that his fishing trips, canoeing, swimming and boating were over. He tried his best to overcome it but the haunting fear of the water followed him everywhere. Finally he decided to engage an instructor to learn to swim and to overcome his fear. He went to the pool and practised for five days a week, an hour each day. The instructor put a belt around him and a rope was attached to the belt. The rope went through a pulley that ran an overhead cable. Douglas held one end of the rope and went back and forth across the pool. On each trip, some of the terror would seize him up. After three months, the tension began to decrease.
Piece by piece he shed the panic. He taught him to put his face under water and exhale. He also learnt how to raise his nose and inhale. This exercise was repeated hundreds of times.
Now he was able to shed part of the fear that seized him under water. He went to Lake Wentworth Triggs Island and Slamp Act Island. He swam two miles across the lake. Now he was determined and he swam on. He shouted with joy and he had conquered his fear of water.
Posted by Vikas Sharma 5 years, 4 months ago
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 4 months ago
Douglas mother recommended that he should learn swimming at the YMCA swimming pool because it was safe, being only two or three feet deep at the shallow end with a gradual drop to nine feet at the other end. In contrast, the Yakima river was quite deep and several cases of drowning in it had been reported.
William Douglas, speaks about the ‘misadventure’ which happened at the YMCA swimming pool when he was about ten or eleven years old. A big bully threw Douglas into the deep end of the pool when no one was around. As Douglas realized that he was drowning, he made several attempts to save himself, but all in vain. Finally, he felt that he would die and became unconscious. When he gained consciousness, he was lying outside the pool. Apparently, somebody had rescued him.
Posted by Vikas Sharma 5 years, 4 months ago
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 4 months ago
His fear of water ruined his fishing trips. It deprived him of the joy of canoeing, boating, and swimming. Douglas used every way he knew to overcome this fear he had developed ’since childhood. Even as an adult, it held him firmly in its grip. He determined to get an instructor and learn swimming to get over this fear of water.
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Yogita Ingle 5 years, 4 months ago
After his misadventure in the pool at the Y.M.C.A., Douglas was amidst the fear of water. He realised that his fishing trips, canoeing, swimming and boating were over. He tried his best to overcome it but the haunting fear of the water followed him everywhere. Finally he decided to engage an instructor to learn to swim and to overcome his fear. He went to the pool and practised for five days a week, an hour each day. The instructor put a belt around him and a rope was attached to the belt. The rope went through a pulley that ran an overhead cable. Douglas held one end of the rope and went back and forth across the pool. On each trip, some of the terror would seize him up. After three months, the tension began to decrease.
Piece by piece he shed the panic. He taught him to put his face under water and exhale. He also learnt how to raise his nose and inhale. This exercise was repeated hundreds of times.
Now he was able to shed part of the fear that seized him under water. He went to Lake Wentworth Triggs Island and Slamp Act Island. He swam two miles across the lake. Now he was determined and he swam on. He shouted with joy and he had conquered his fear of water.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 4 months ago
In the chapter 'Lost Spring' by Anees Jung, Savita is a young, unmarried girl who belongs to a family of a bangle makers in Firozabad. She is soldering some glass pieces to transform them into beautiful glass bangles. The narrator wants to convey the idea that she will understand the cultural significance of bangles when she becomes a bride.
The following lines from the story provide the answer :
'Savita, a young girl in a drab pink dress, sits alongside an elderly woman, soldering pieces of glass. As her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine, I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the bangles she helps make. It symbolises an Indian woman’s suhaag, auspiciousness in marriage. It will dawn on her suddenly one day when her head is draped with a red veil, her hands dyed red with henna, and red bangles rolled onto her wrists. She will then become a bride.'
Posted by Vikas Sharma 5 years, 4 months ago
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 4 months ago
The city of Firozabad is famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in the business of making bangles. Firozabad is a centre of India's glass blowing industry. Since generations the families are working around furnaces, welding glass and making bangles for all the women on the land. The bangles are symbolised as woman's Suhag. There are bangles makers in the narrow streets of
Firozabad in every house. The heaps of the spirals of
bangles can be seen on every place there in Firozabad.
All the members of the family can be seen welding and
soldering the glass bangles in the different colours of a
rainbow.
Posted by Vikas Sharma 5 years, 4 months ago
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 4 months ago
The city of Firozabad is famous for its bangles. Every other family in Firozabad is engaged in the business of making bangles. Firozabad is a centre of India's glass blowing industry. Since generations the families are working around furnaces, welding glass and making bangles for all the women on the land. The bangles are symbolised as woman's Suhag. There are bangles makers in the narrow streets of
Firozabad in every house. The heaps of the spirals of
bangles can be seen on every place there in Firozabad.
All the members of the family can be seen welding and
soldering the glass bangles in the different colours of a
rainbow.
Posted by Vikas Sharma 5 years, 4 months ago
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 4 months ago
-Poverty stricken family/ burdened by stigma of caste and -Vicious circle created by sahukars, middlemen, policemen, keepers of law, bureaucrats (any two) Detailed Answer : “Listening to them, I see two different worlds…”, the author here is talking about two families, one caught in the web of poverty, burdened by the stigma of caste in which they were born and the other is the vicious circle of sahukars, the middleman, policemen, the keepers of law, the bureaucrats and the policemen. All of them together they have put the burden on Mukesh that he cannot keep aside. Before he is aware, he accepts it naturally like his father. For him to do anything else would mean to dare.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 4 months ago
For adults rag picking was only a means of survival but for children, a lot of excitement was associated with the same for they often found unexpected things as a ten rupee note in the same. There was always a hope of coming across unexpected surprises and so garbage was wrapped in wonder for them.
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Gaurav Seth 5 years, 4 months ago
Saheb was a rag-picker. By chance he got a job to work at the tea stall down the road. There he was paid 800 rupees and all his meals. But his face lost his care free look. He was no longer his own master. The steel milk canister seemed heavier than his plastic bag. It belonged to his teamster and the life under the master was not a life of happiness.

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