allows you to forget about other matters. You can just swim freely, whatever way you want. This idea is shown in three books.
In the book Swimmers, by María José Ferrada, Olympic swimmers picture themselves as fish, and fish as Olympic swimmers. It creates the sense that water is a playground, full of play.
The next book, The Summer of Diving, by Sara Stridsberg depicts a young girl whose father has severe depression. The girl doesn’t know this until she goes to the hospital where her father is kept. Zoe, the girl, doesn’t understand what is going on, and suddenly, a person in a swimming suit asks her if she wants to swim.
She accepts and soon, she is enjoying her time, swimming in the water and practicing strokes on land. Sometimes Sabina, her fellow swim partner, suddenly disappears, diving into another world. This shows that Sabina is free while swimming, even able to dive into other worlds.
In the last book, Swim Team: Small Waves, Big Changes, by Johnnie Christmas talks about Bree, a young black girl who has to join the school swim team, but fears the water. She has a neighbor, Etta who was a former swim champion. After Etta saves Bree from drowning Bree learns how to swim, and she learns that swimming is mostly white.
In her school swim team, her team, the underdogs, have to fight so that their pool doesn’t get shut down. Christmas can relate to this, as when she was young, she loved her swim team and had also been saved from drowning. According to her, “I would have adored this book back then. I’m thrilled it’s here now.” This means that since Bree uses swimming to become free, she wants to fight for that luxury.
The main similarity between these three books is they depict how swimming causes people to be calm and free. From escaping the truth, to forgetting about racial differences, swimming affects each person in a different way. Anyone can find a place in the water.
In the book Swimmers, by María José Ferrada, Olympic swimmers picture themselves as fish, and fish as Olympic swimmers. It creates the sense that water is a playground, full of play.
The next book, The Summer of Diving, by Sara Stridsberg depicts a young girl whose father has severe depression. The girl doesn’t know this until she goes to the hospital where her father is kept. Zoe, the girl, doesn’t understand what is going on, and suddenly, a person in a swimming suit asks her if she wants to swim.
She accepts and soon, she is enjoying her time, swimming in the water and practicing strokes on land. Sometimes Sabina, her fellow swim partner, suddenly disappears, diving into another world. This shows that Sabina is free while swimming, even able to dive into other worlds.
In the last book, Swim Team: Small Waves, Big Changes, by Johnnie Christmas talks about Bree, a young black girl who has to join the school swim team, but fears the water. She has a neighbor, Etta who was a former swim champion. After Etta saves Bree from drowning Bree learns how to swim, and she learns that swimming is mostly white.
In her school swim team, her team, the underdogs, have to fight so that their pool doesn’t get shut down. Christmas can relate to this, as when she was young, she loved her swim team and had also been saved from drowning. According to her, “I would have adored this book back then. I’m thrilled it’s here now.” This means that since Bree uses swimming to become free, she wants to fight for that luxury.
The main similarity between these three books is they depict how swimming causes people to be calm and free. From escaping the truth, to forgetting about racial differences, swimming affects each person in a different way. Anyone can find a place in the water.
