Church's "I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part" mainly includes imagery--the Barbie pool, the mountains, the lake, and his interactions with his son. His imagery in the beginning is playful (the swimming pool and how he's too big for it), but it starts to become more powerful towards the end and evokes sympathy (his son and his fear of swimming).
Like in most creative nonfiction, Church has a lot of introspective monologues through out the piece. Towards the end, he discovers something about himself that he didn't know before; he realizes why he was frightened the day he tried to look for a drunk, drowning man at the bottom of a lake. This epiphany moment about his fear and his cowardice makes him seem more realistic; Church doesn't make himself out to be a hero for attempting to save this ultimately doomed man. He knows he didn't try his best to save him, because he had his dead brother in the back of his mind.
when he dove in to try to save that drowning man, he felt closer and closer to his deceased brother. Even though he couldn't do anything to prevent his brother's death, he still felt guilty. All of us always think that we could have done more to save someone who is no longer living, but with some situations, that sense of guilt never really disappears and reveals itself every so often in other things that we do.
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