The fictional text “Sunday at the Water Park” takes place at a pool where Mariah, the protagonist, works. The story begins when one of Mariah’s classmate, Berry, whom she doesn’t really know is starting to interview her for his job (the editor of the school newspaper). Then, Mariah notices that one kid stopped moving and is drowning. Her reflexes cause her to jump into action without her consciously deciding how to act, because of the lifesaving courses she had taken. In just thirty seconds she got the little boy, whose name was Peter, out of the pool and safe. Berry enthusiastically tells Mariah that he caught the whole thing on tape and prompts her to give him an interview. When the news of her heroic performance reaches her family and neighbors, they are all proud of her and applaud her courage. But the thing that actually made her really happy was just the fact that she had helped and saved someone.
Mariah, Berry, and Peter are the main characters in the story. Mariah is the lifeguard and the one who the story is mostly about, Berry is the interviewer and editor of the school newspaper., and Peter is the little boy who Mariah saved. The story took place in the water park that Mariah worked at on a Sunday. The pool was a wave pool, so it made waves. Mariah didn’t really want to give Berry an interview but nothing much really happened there so she accepted his offer. The interview was about to start when Mariah noticed that someone was getting drowned. She went into a stage of what was almost autopilot and applied all of the techniques she had learned in lifeguard training to save Peter. After she made sure he was safe, Berry asked for the interview as he had gotten it all on tape. Her friends and family saw the tape, but she was more proud of the fact that she saved the little boy.
