Deep Water

In my opinion, the deep water was a great story! He was very descriptive. I loved how at the end he said he wasn’t afraid of swimming anymore. If I was him, I'd still be afraid of swimming, but I'm glad he conquered his fear. This story relates to me, except the part where he locked up in the water and couldn’t move.

As I said, the story relates to me. When I was little (maybe six or seven? ) I went swimming at the Kalahari. Well it was my second time there and I wanted to go down the big slide. Half way down the slide I realized that I couldn’t swim. It was 4 feet deep. (I was only about 3 1/2 feet tall) I started panicking half way down and I had to be saved by a lifeguard once I hit the bottom.

To this day I still cant swim. Once I was able to float on my back, that’s as far as I've ever gotten. I've also been able to doggy paddle and go to the bottom of the water and crawl along the bottom. Some of my friends say I act like a dolphin because I twirl under the water when I go along the floor of the pool/lake.


My point here is that even if your afraid of drowning or of the water, you should give it a chance. You wont know anything if you don’t ever try. That’s exacitaly whart the guy from this story did. He took A chance and got into the water. Maybe its his favorite thing to do now. Or maybe its his least favoirite, I don’t know but you should always take a chance and go for it.

The pearl Essay Response

I thought the pearl was a pretty good book. The authors name is John Steinbeck. I liked the book because I love reading tragedy's. I love it because for some reason I don’t like happy endings or happy books. This was the perfect type of book for me. It would have been better if the author would of maybe made some more people die too. I know that sounds harsh but that’s the kind of person I am.

I realized that when I was reading that when they found the pear something bad was going to happen. Almost no book goes to the middle without something bad or interesting happening. That’s when I realized when they found the pearl something bad would probably happen. I was right.

One of the things I was right about was that something bad would happen. The first bad thing that happened was when they found the pearl and then the shop keeper people said that the pearl was useless, but then they tried to steal it, so then Kino knew that they only said that it was worthless because of that fact he was Native American. This book was really written to be a tragedy.

The only thing Kino wanted was for his son to grow up and have an education, but that wasn’t possible because all the people were judging him by the color of his skin. First the doctor wouldn’t treat the baby because he only treats white rich people. Then he does because then they find the pearl? Isn't that racist? I think so.

The last thing that happened is when the pearl buyers tried to steal the pearl, Kino, Juana and Kyotito had to run for it. When they did so, in the end the baby, (Kyotito) got shot in the head and was left in the cave. Kino and Juana acted like they were strong and didn’t even care that they're only child was now gone forever. I bet that they were both dying inside.

Chapter 3 - The Pearl

I think she thinks it will destroy them because if they buy something, and the other one doesn't like it then they will get in a big fight, and then they will split apart and never get married. An example is; if Kino buys something that costs a lot of money and Juana gets mad, and Kino doesn't care she could split up with him, then there would be no wedding. I don’t know if Kino would care, but then realize what he lost.

The Pearl Response.

I think she thinks it will destroy them because if they buy something, and the other one doesn't like it then they will get in a big fight, and then they will split apart and never get married. An example is; if Kino buys something that costs a lot of money and Juana gets mad, and Kino doesn't care she could split up with him, then there would be no wedding. I don’t know if Kino would care, but then realize what he lost.

The pearl

So far what I think of this book is it was boring at the beginning, but now its getting kind of interesting. I like that the baby didn’t die and that they found a pearl so they have money. If they didn’t have anything I was getting worried something or someone would die in the beginning of this book. I'm kind of mad that the doctors a racist but we can't change that. Now that they have money he's going to treat their baby? He only treats rich people and white ones? Its sad that they're Indians. Because aperentally if they were white then they would be treated. (and rich.)