Character Analysis: A Mother In Mannville

Through the precarious attempts of Jerry, "Through the Tunnel" demonstrates numerous internal conflicts that prompted him to take such questionable risks. At the beginning of the story, Jerry’s mother says, “Why, darling, would you rather not come with me” (Lessing 242)? As for Jerry, “Contrition sent

Through his “relationship with his mother,” it is possible that he works hard to one day be adopted and have a mother of his own. The author never writes the way Jerry feels inside toward having a mother, so his feelings are ambiguous. On the other hand it might be implied that everything he does is so he can have a better life and family. Because he doesn’t have a mother to bond with, he begins to develop a bond with the

Jerry’s relationship with women is another indispensable to understanding the state of alienation that Jerry suffers from. Jerry’s lack of contact with ladies can also be seen from the fact that he does not have long relationships with women. He tells Peter that he has very little contact with ladies: “I never see the pretty little ladies more than once” and he also admits “do I love the little ladies; really, I love them. For about an hour” (25). It is clear that his relationship with women is limited by prostitutes only, and it is only for a very short time and “once.” Therefore, he does not maintain long relationships, either because he does not want to get bound to them, or due to inability to sustain such relationships. The only relationship that lasted

“Through the Tunnel”: Character Believability Have you ever risked your life to accomplish something? In the story “Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing” Jerry makes a life risking decision. I think that Jerry is a believable character because he has the pride and courage that you would need if you were in that position. Overall the story was about a boy named Jerry and his mom took him on a vacation. She asked him if he wanted to go somewhere else than the beach.

Jerry, despite his relative decency, is victimized by the power structure of the school as well as his peers (Bagnall). “Choosing to disturb the universe means that Jerry himself is thrown into chaos” (Junko). His refusal to conform makes him the prime target of both the Vigils and the school officials, despite admiration from his peers. Cormier makes it clear that moral individuals can not survive unaided in a corrupt, oppressive system (Harris et al.). Jerry, while standing up for what he believes is right, is constantly torn down and abused by Archie’s goons. No one, not even his best friend Goober, came to his rescue to combat his oppressors. Arguably, “the reason Jerry was not saved was because he stood alone” (Harris et al.). Jerry stood alone in refusing to take the chocolates, his abuse by the Vigils, and his eventual physical and mental destruction by Janza. In fact, his destruction makes him into a martyr. His surrender in the end makes him an even more realistic hero and shows that it takes more people to fight powerful figures (Peck). Cormier challenges the perception of the modern “Superman” figure and replaces him with an “Average Joe”: a jack of all trades but master at none. Despite his defeat, Jerry’s legacy will live beyond him, whether publicly celebrated or privately discussed by Trinity students (Siegler). Jerry’s battle could have been won if his peers acted against the power structures as

When he got close a police man stopped him and sat him down. He would not allow Jerry to go into his home. The police man told Jerry that a terrible thing had happened. Just then Jerry seen the babysitter they hired for the night standing there frozen with fear and white as a ghost, Jerry walked up to the babysitter and she began to cry. She told Jerry that when she got there the door was cracked and the alarm was going off. She stated she called 911 and went inside the home to find, Jerry’s wife and 3 children were murdered. She stated she tried to help them but they were already dead.

Jerry’s relationship with his mother is complicated. She does her best to raise him how she wants, but then finds herself worrying over what amusements he might secretly be longing for (Lines 10-12). His mother was the one to open up the door to Jerry’s tunnel encounter. She asked him if he was tired of the usual beach, and gave him permission to go somewhere else (Lines 16-18).

His mother was not given a name, there was no background story given to her, and it merely states that she "died last spring. Cancer." (Cormier 14) No mercy is shown for Jerry’s loss, as if this loss is not in any way significant at all. His own father also expresses no feeling of loss or depression, especially with the loss of someone who would be expected to be the love of his life. "You finish school, found an occupation, got married, became a father, watched your wife die, and then live through days and nights that seem to have no sunrises, no dawns, and no dusks, nothing but a gray drabness." (Cormier 64)

Jerry Goldsmith is a well-known name when it comes to the musical world. As an American composer and conductor he has composed many pieces of music and films. His music is one of a kind it always gets your attention. I chose Jerry Goldsmith because I enjoyed some of the films he created music for. He was one of the best in his time.

Jerry helps himself because of his various traits like being a leader, introverted, good person. Jerry has a personality of a leader. When everyone else choose to sell the chocolates because they were scared of Brother Leon and the Vigils, he was the only one to say no. But after the assignment from the vigils he still decided to say no and that’s where things went left.

When the narrator first hired Jerry, he was only meant to chop wood for the fire. He did so very efficiently and smoothly. “We went to the back of the cabin. An astonishing amount of solid wood had been cut" (Page 65, Paragraph 17). When she assigned him the task of chopping wood, she expected the standard amount of wood, maybe a small pile. However, Jerry chopped an enormous pile of wood, and spent about an hour and a half doing so, a task in which some people would be bored

In the beginning of the story Jerry goes up to a woman that gives him a job cutting logs to earn money for him,As Jerry is working he Accidentally breaks the axe,later in the story Jerry finishes his work and he goes back to the orphanage where he lives,Jerry does not have a mom and that's why he is an orphan,Later in the story Jerry

He becomes possessive and calls for the police but there are none around. Jerry forces Peter to have a fight with him for his honor, defending the bench. Peter defends himself. When they face each other, Jerry takes out a knife from his pocket and then let if fall at Peter’s feet to make the fight ‘more evenly matched’, as Peter puts it out in his out stretched had, Jerry pushes himself on the knife and thus puts an end to his life. He dies, but while dying, he requests Peter to flee. He returns the book to Peter and wipes the finger prints from the blood stained knife. Jerry comes to an almost religious

Without cruelty, kindness would be meaningless, and without loss, gain would be negligible. Jerry sees that the balance of the two allow him to live in acceptance of himself and others. By facing these rules of society instead of ignoring them, he can become a complete human. Instead of inhabiting with other animals and humans, he can now coexist with them. He can get along with them, and form a relationship. He sees that people on this earth are merely segregated animals coexisting in separate bubbles, and the only way one can get along is to accept cruelty and loss as well as the respecting the other bubbles.

I found out he didn't have a mother. Why did he lie? What were his reasons? I was shocked he lied. My heart broke, I thought he had a mother. No skates no mother everything went fast I didn't understand. He lied, why. Why did he do what he did, what were his reasons for lying. Everything went so fast I was in shock, I couldn't believe why he lied.