"Deep Water" Essay Response

   "Only my heart, and the pounding in my head, said that I was still alive." In the short story "Deep Water" by William O. Douglas,  these are the words that the author described his experience at the pool. He was 10 years old and he wanted to learn how to swim so he started off in the 3 feet part of the pool. Then one day a older kid about 18 threw him into the water. He was describing all the fear he felt in his body when he couldn’t reach the surface of the water. He feared water many years after this experience happened. Anything that had to deal with water brought back the fear of the day at the pool.

   This story kind of reminds me of the time when I got in a bike accident. I was about 10. I was at my friends house and we where going of some ramps. Then one of the times I went of the ramp I turned my handle bars on accident. One side of the handle bars came around and hit me in the stomach  then I flipped over  the bike I scrapped my shoulder and my hands where  all bloody from the gravel. I tried to catch myself but it was hard because my vision wasn’t straight I couldn’t see what was going on. After words my head was throbbing. I had a really bad head ache. I had a helmet on and I was so thankful because I hit my head super hard if I didn’t have a helmet I probably would of cracked my head open. After this happened to me I had a fear of going of jumps with my bike.

   In the end  of "Deep Water" the author had over come his fear of water and was able to swim 2 miles around a Lake Wentworth. During his journey he described how his fear only returned one time. After that he did not fear water. He conquered his fear. I don’t think I will ever be able to conquer mine though. To this day I am not able to go off a jump with a bike. I am afraid of falling off and getting really hurt.

   Over all the author was strong and brave enough to get over his fear it took him a while but he defeated it and now he can swim in the lakes and go fishing without his fear coming back again and again.

Final Pearl Essay :)

                What will it take for kino to learn his lesson? In The Pearl by John Steinbeck Kino is a native in the city of La Paz located in Mexico. This book takes place during the nineteen hundreds. Steinbeck choice tragedy for the plot line of the story. You can really pull out the symbolism in this book. And the lesson was a good one to remember for the rest of your life.
               The main characters are Kino an Indian pearl diver who finds the magnificent pearl and whose life is partially destroyed by this pearl. Juana is Kino's wife and faithful partner and she is obedient and devoted to her family. Coyotito is Kino and Juana's baby son he is stung by a scorpion and recovers wonderfully only to be later killed by a bullet.
             The lesson of this book is not to let greed or money get in the way of you or your family. Greed is a destructive force and if not controlled it will effect you a lot maybe even forever, like the death of Kino’s son Coyotito. Another lesson is fate because fate was a major aspect to why Kino did not succeed in his dreams of having a luxurious life. When Kino discovered the Pearl he thought that it would take him out of poverty and into a life of happiness. The pearl was not meant for anyone to find, and the finding of one was luck, “a little pat on the back by God.”
              The problem in this story is that Kino is trying to sell his pearl and every one bids a low price. That means he keeps it longer and everyone is trying to steal it from him. The conflict is man vs. man the reason why is that a lot of people are trying to steal it from him the day he got it. It went to the point that people were tracking him for it and attacking him in his sleep.
              I hated it when Kino went pearl diving and found the “pearl of the world,” and started making a scene. When you find something very valuable like that you keep that a secret and under ground. When you make a discovery with something valuable like that you do not deal in front of an audience you do it privately. When you plan to travel somewhere to deal a valuable thing like a pearl as big as a seagulls egg you do not tell any one and you be especially careful.
This book taught me not to let money or anything get in the way with me and my families relationship. It made me think twice about money and keeping it for myself and at least helping someone if I have enough money.

"The Pearl" Reflection Whole Book

What can be learned by reading a book? In the book "The Pearl" there are a lot of lessons  that the character has to learn. The main character in this book Kino has changed a lot through out this book. Almost like he was a different person

In the beginning of the book they described Kino as a nice loving father and husband. He was strong mentally and physically. He should this through out the book he had a good mind set. He always thought of his family before himself. He cared a lot about his family about his family. It wasn't hard to notice that. H would of risk his life for his wife Juana and son Coyotito. He would do anything for them. His son got stung by a scorpion in he beginning of the book. Kino was mad he was afraid he was going to lose his son. So he killed the scorpion. Juana is also a strong loving person she was determined to not let her son die so right away she tried sucking out all the passion. She was afraid that wouldn’t work. So the strong determined women she was she went right to the doctor. HE refused to help there son so she was devastated. After they got rejected they went pearling. Kino found "the pearl of the world" Yu would think that finding the pearl would bring him and his family good fortune. But, it started to tear his family apart. Kino became selfish and only cared about the pearl. Juana just wanted to get rid of the pearl but he would not let her he wanted to keep it and sell it for good money and he didn’t want to get cheated. He guarded the pearl with his life. It seemed like he thought the pearl was more important then his family. It changed him so much by the end of the book he killed about 4 people over the pearl. And he beat up his wife. Also  he lost his son.

Over all the lesson that Kino had to learn was the being greedy gets you nothing in life. He just let the pearl take him over, he should of listened to Juana and got rid of the pearl right away because than his house wouldn’t of been set on fire and he wouldn’t have to hide in his brothers house. He was not him self in the end of the book he was a different person.

"The Pearl" Will the pearl ruin Kino's family?

All Juanna wants is for the pearl to be gone. She thinks that it is changing Kino in a bad way. He is acting different he is being greedy and he is thinking more about the pearl than his actual family. He is more alert to. He woke up in the middle of the night and he felt someone lurking in the shadows so he got up and moved the pearl under his mat. Then someone broke into his house and tried to steal the pearl and he was really angry when this happened he was saying that he wanted to get a gun so that he can protect the pearl.

"The Pearl" Reflection

I like this book a lot it is a nice family story it really gets u thinking about there culture and what is valuable to them. In the book the author describes Kino and his wife Janna as good people. He goes on saying that they are good to their people and they are good to their son, they are loving and caring people. When Steinbeck described how Kino found the pearl it kind of got me excited. I was just wanting to see what happened next. Also it seemed kind of sketchy how the doctor didn’t care about helping Coyotito with his scorpion sting until he hears the roamer that Kino had found the "Pearl of the World".  I did not like the fact that Kino said that it was okay for the doctor to come in his house and try to help Coyotito get better. Steinbeck made it seem like
all the doctor did was make the baby sick and then come back to fix what he had done. All the doctor really wants is the pearl because he is conniving and he just wants to be the wealthiest man in the town.