Chapter 3

Content:

It's the first morning, 5:30, at the cottage and Jess is already awake. She doesn't feel tired anymore, although she felt asleep lately. The nature, the twittering birds and the dabbling river, call her out. So she decides to put on her swimsuit and follow the noises.
Now, in the sunlight she's able to gaze the surrounding of her much better. Around the cottage built at the base of an hill there is a lot of woodland and beyond this woodland she can see a wonderful valley cleaved by the river.
She walks down the cold river and after a short time she recognizes that the river becomes deeper and deeper. After circa 100 yards she begins to swim. First she swims carefully breast-stroke further down to explore the unknown river. Then she stops and looks back. The current (Strömung) took her very fast away from her starting point. It is a completely new experience for the actually experienced swimmer Jess. However, after exploring lots of other facts (e.g. the banks and the different depth) Jess starts to swim in a crawling way against the current back to the cottage. She doesn't want to worry their parents. However, she feels herself observed by someone. Is that only imagination?

My thoughts while reading:

While reading the third chapter I was really influenced by the description of the wonderful nature around Jess. I could absolutely feel this natural silence, this invitation to find some time to relax. All in all I think this novel lets one fall into two extremely different feelings. There is the worry about the grandfather of Jess, but there is also this feeling of relaxation by nature, of course especially of water. Water, that's the passion of Jess and you can get this feeling while reading in an empathic way.
Chapter 3 really calmed me down because this chapter really underlines the effect by nature and water that gives Jess a chargeback for her worries with her loved grandpa. The stress, the fear and the worries with grandpa are cut off here.
So, to put it in a nutshell, Chapter 3 is a calming down chapter where only Jess plays a certain role. The other facts are cutted mostly off.