Value Based Questions: Deep Water

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VALUE BASED QUESTIONS

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Deep Water
Q. Doing well in any activity, for example a sport, music, dance or
painting, riding a motorcycle or a cars, involves a great deal of struggle.
Most of us are very nervous to begin with until gradually we overcome
our fears and perform well.
Write a paragraph of about 100 words recounting such an experience. Try

to recollect details of what caused the fear, your feelings, the
encouragement you got from others or the criticism.
You could begin with the last sentenced of the essay DEEP WATER – “ At
last I felt released, free to walk the trails and climb the peaks and to brush
aside fear.”
Ans. Doing Well- A Great Struggle
At last I felt released, free to walk the trails and climb the peaks and to
brush aside fear. Now the haunting fear had been shed and I can drive not
only the motorcycle but the car also on the crowded roads of Delhi without
any trace of fear in me.
When for the first time I rode a motorcycle I felt very thrilled. Moreover, I
drove on an empty road in the rural part after sunset. It was after travelling
a distance of four kilometers I drove back. At a sharp curve a passenger bus
came from opposite side. To my utter horror, I could notice the fallen-tree
on my road-side when I just reached it. It had no choice but to drive down
the road. I jumped flat behind, leaving the running motorcycle in the grove
of trees. I was badly hurt and found the bike damaged form standing in the
trees. I was fear-struck and helpless. The driving fear followed me
whenever I drove.
At last, I engaged an instructor to teach me driving. It was one hour daily

for one month. I was given a signal to drive independently. I drove on busy
roads, crowded roads, jammed roads and finally, on roads with deep curves
in the hills. It made me to feel free of the haunting driving fear. The residual
fear also was over a long time. I won it, and felt free to drive.
Q. Taking references from the story ’Deep Water’, write a paragraph on

‘Practice Makes a Man Perfect’.
Ans. Life teaches us many things. We are not well trained or learned person
since our birth. Life provides us opportunities to learn. We break the
shackles of myths and prejudices to learn more and more. Due to one
incident or other, many phobias start ruling one’s heart. This is really a
pathetic condition. Terrors and fears are a part of life but their phase must
be temporary. One needs to practice over and over again till he gets
mastery over the issue. This is all about hope, struggle and determination
and nothing else. As it is rightly said, ‘Faith can move mountains.’ So
practicing hard for a thing brings fruitful results.
Q. Look at the following quotes:
Life is to live Faith steers the ship of life Life is a precious gift
Life is to live Life is to live
Life is a teacher itself Life is a mixture of Roses & Thorns

Life is to live Life is to live
Reading all these and the lesson ‘Deep Water’ you decide to write a
paragraph for your school magazine on ‘How to overcome trouble’.
Ans. How to Overcome Trouble
Life is a mixture of the ‘Pleasant’ and the ‘Unpleasant’, of joy and

sorrow. As the Psalmist declares – “Weeping may endure for a night, but
joy cometh in the morning.” Joy and sorrow follow each other as day
follows night. But when suffering comes, the period appears to be long. A
year of joy appears as a day and a day of suffering appears longer than a
year.
Suffering is not a part of life. It is a teacher. We would miss some of the

best lessons in life, if suffering did not come to us. Many of us don not
recognize this truth and do all we can to avoid a painful experience. When
trouble approaches, we try to run away from it, but trouble can never be
avoided. The unpleasant experience recedes - only for a while to return to
us again. By avoiding trouble, we invite grater trouble at a later stage.
There are some who knowing that trouble cannot be avoided, resign
themselves to the experiences which fall to their lot. They do not resist;
they become resigned. Often such persons are heard to say: ‘What cannot
be cured must be endured.’
Q. “All we have to fear is fear itself”, the narrator in the lesson ‘deep
water ‘Quotes Roosevelt while narrating his experience of going deep in
water and all the rest of it. Narrate another story about conquest of fear
and how courage helped one to survive under the stress.
ANS: ‘An Act of Courage’
It is the real story of Asma khan, who was awarded for saving about 40
children from drowning ‘.
It was a horror scene in suburban Mumbai, rain lashed on the ground. A

hundred children wailed in terror in a cramped, dark hall. Water gushed in
from all sides and inched up. The inmates of ‘bal girha’ of the children’s aid
society sang and their prayer. Asma was the odd one out.
She started calculating how soon the children will start drowning. She
instantly picked up two of the smaller kids and jumped into water-nearly
five feet of dirty, black liquid! She didn’t know how to swim. So, slowly she
moved across the slippery ground, keeping her head up to keep water from
getting into her mouth and nose. She made over a dozen such trips, carry
nearly 40 kids on her shoulders to safety. Wasn’t she scared? Someone
asked her. “Nothing scares me “, she says. The girl doesn’t know who or
where her parents were. But Asma certainly knows about parenting than
most. At this tender age, she has already conquered fear!
Q. ‘All we have to fear is fear itself’. The story ‘Deep Water’ is about
Douglas’ fear water and how he finally overcomes it.
After reading the text, you strongly feel that there is nothing to be afraid
of. One can adapt virtues like courage, strong determination, hard toil,
strong will power and the desire to learn, to reach the highest peak in life.
Write a speech in about 1000 words to be delivered in the morning
assembly of your school on the topic ‘Fear Does not let One Conquer’.

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VALUE BASED QUESTIONS

Write a paragraph of about 100 words recounting such an experience. Try

Ans. Doing Well- A Great Struggle

At last, I engaged an instructor to teach me driving. It was one hour daily

Q. Taking references from the story ’Deep Water’, write a paragraph on

Q. Look at the following quotes:

Life is a teacher itself Life is a mixture of Roses & Thorns

Ans. How to Overcome Trouble

Life is a mixture of the ‘Pleasant’ and the ‘Unpleasant’, of joy and

Suffering is not a part of life. It is a teacher. We would miss some of the

ANS: ‘An Act of Courage’

It was a horror scene in suburban Mumbai, rain lashed on the ground. A

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