How does Douglas make clear to the reader the sense of panic that gripped him as he almost drowned? Describe the details that have made the description vivid.
One day at Y.M.C.A swimming pool, he was sitting near to the edge of a body, with good muscles yelled to him “he skinny” and picked him up and taught him into the pool, he was started sinking and scared not as to die and while swimming down he made plan that when he would touch the bottom of pool, he will jump-off with legs and come to the surface and will be that on it but nothing happened according to his plan this lungs were ready to burst. But when feet hit the bottom he summoned all his strength. He imagined he would bob to the surface like a cork instead he came up slowly. He failed to each the surface of water, swallowed and chocked. He tried to bring his legs up, but they were hung as dead weights, paralysed and wigged. A great for was pulling him down and he screamed but his throat was chocked or freezed. He tried it second this but nothing happened. Then he started down a third tome. He plucked for air and got water, then all effort and he was very slander and forgot all his plans and he layer unconscious.
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