Deep Water

If you were drowning would that feel good to you? Well in deep water by William O. Douglas this boy is afraid of water and he doesn’t know how to swim so one day he tried to learn how to swim. He swam back and forth for hours. But he had a flash back of when he started to be scared of water and how it affected him well water plowed over him and he couldn’t breathe and the water just kept hitting him and his dad kept smiling. Well this is just beginning but the middle is a little better.
This boy is very brave he went alone to YMCA where he learns how to swim. Well he just waited for more people to come well there comes a 17 year old, and he threw him into the deep end. Well remember he can’t swim so he was thrown into the deep end and he started drowning. Well when he hits bottom he will come up just like you pop a cork of a bottle of wine when it hits new years. Well when he hit bottom he tried to shoot up but it ended up him being slow like a 3 toed sloth.
There are not a lot of characters in this story but there is a mom, dad, a teenager, and a swimming teacher. Well the mom and the dad got divorced and when the little boy visited his dad he was surfing and he lost control then when he fell he kept getting hit by water and almost got killed. Well a couple years later he lives with his mom. The teenager throws the little boy to the deep end. And the swimming teacher teaches the little boy how to swim and he would practice 1 hour every hour. Then he learned how to swim.
Now I advise you to read deep water I read it and it was really good. I think teachers should give this to students and let them read it it is a very good short story the best I’ve ever read I can say that.

The Pearl

The book pearl by John Steinbeck is a very slow book, but I recommended it to teens. It might be slow but it is very good Kino and Juana are the parents of the child coyotito who got stung by a scorpion which is very dangerous for a baby, they could die. Kino (the dad) was very calm and not mean in the beginning book, but when he found a pearl the size of an egg coyotito was not sick anymore. Juana (the mom) is also very calm and she wears raggedy clothes so does Kino. Although the begging of the book is great it gets even better in the middle of the book.
All the characters in the book are Kino, Juana, the doctor, pearl buyers, and coyotito. Let’s start with Kino; he’s very rich after he found the pearl. He bought a rifle and tried to use it to help coyotito not to die. He killed 4 people that tried to steal the pearl. He is very angry very hateful, because he fell in love with this pearl he found. Now Juana is very calm never mean never hateful. She started realizing the pearl was killing Kino and Juana relationship. The doctor was refusing to take care of the baby until Kino found the pearl, but he made the baby more sick cause he wanted the pearl all to him self. The pearl buyers say the pearl he found is worth nothing but Kino knows he’s lying so later in the book he killed him. Coyotito is very sick because the scorpion stung him and he could die. You think the middle is good well let’s go into the end of the book.
In the end of the book Juana steals the pearl and tried to destroy it but Kino finds her and literally beats her up to get the pearl away from her. And like I said in the seconded paragraph they went to the pearl buyers they said the pearl was nothing it was like only 100 dollars so later on he got killed. Juana and Kino have lost their house their love and almost the baby Juana saw this was going to happen she predicted it. Now to the conclusion.
In the end of the book Kino ends up rowing out to sea taking the pearl with him and his family and he took the pearl and he threw it into the green ocean and it sunk until it hit bottom and coyotito was still sick. But at least everything went back to normal.

Journal Refelction

The story is good and bad. Good because it action and suspense and the stir really ties in unlike other books. Bad because its slow and it just makes me tired. In the book there are mixed emotions. Kino is usually mad or sad he's never happy in the book so far. Now Juana is happy and sad she is mostly sad because she thinks her baby is going to die of poison but the baby is really fine the doctor just wants the pearl because they call it the pearl of the world. I really didn’t understand the story in the end but my frreinds helped me. The story is very good now it suspense to me and now I really do like the story.

The Pearl

The story is good and bad. Good because it action and suspense and the stir really ties in unlike other books. Bad because its slow and it just makes me tired. In the book there are mixed emotions. Kino is usually mad or sad he's never happy in the book so far. Now Juana is happy and sad she is mostly sad because she thinks her baby is going to die of poison but the baby is really fine the doctor just wants the pearl because they call it the pearl of the world.

Why does Juana believe the pearl will destroy her and Kino?

Juana believes it would tear them apart because everybody wants it. Everybody wants a little piece of the pearl. Many believe that Juana and Kino are going to be split up, but I on the other hand believe that they will stay together if Kino wants to be married in a church then why would they split up. The pearl wont destroy them because one they love each other and two Kino buried the pearl which means its killed.