Mature In John Steinbeck's 'Through The Tunnel'

The harsh reality is one which hit everyone in America in the 1930. People found work hard to find and crime was on the uprise. This meant, unfortunately, that innocent people were the easy prey and, as we see in the Of Mice and Men, there were plenty of characters that were easy prey. Of Mice and Men characters have and do thing that make them vulnerable in way which do cause trouble. In this essay, that harsh reality and easy prey will be shown through to see which characters are the most vulnerable.

Jerry set up a goal to go through itbefore summer vacation ends. He admitted he was afraid of the tunnel, which it a steptowards being mature.

The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D Salinger is a coming of age story. It is a story narrated by the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, who is a sixteen year old boy, but has a mind of a ten year old innocent kid. In the beginning he thinks of innocence as important, but later he realizes that growing up cannot be stopped. He wanders around the New York City by himself and gains experience of life that teaches him to become mature. This book is clearly written to show the theme of coming of age because it shows many symbols of coming of age, it shows the changes of young adults in modern life, and it creates an image of Holden growing up.

    Holden Caulfield sees childhood as the ideal state of being. He thinks adulthood is filled with corrupt people. The only way anyone can win in the adult world is if the cards are stacked in his favor. The characters in The Catcher in the Rye play a diverse set of roles in the war between childhood and adulthood.

Jerry is a young boy who has not yet fully matured yet. His mother finally lets him go off on his own when he see the french boys. They are much stronger and older than him but he still hangs out with them and they don’t seem to mind at first. The french boys all swim under the big pile of rocks in long periods of time without air. Jerry is amazed and wants to find out how they did it. The boys laugh and judge him as he sits on the rock, alone without the ability to swim with the boys. This is when Jerry sees the tunnel for himself and sets the goal to swim through it before the end of vacation

Leading the reader to the realisation that maturity is one theme the author wants to express, is the presentation of maturity in various shapes and forms. The way Scout describes Jem as “[someone who] had acquired a set of values” (Lee 153) implies the evolution which Jem was subjected to. As it is deductible by Jem’s reaction to the news of Mrs Dubose’s death, how “[he] buried his face in Atticus’s shirt” (Lee 148) and cried, the event impacted Jem enormously, which consequently is the reason of his sudden growth. Additionally, it is possible to see Jem maturing by him breaking “the remaining code of [Scout, Dill and Jem’s] childhood” (Lee 187) and telling Atticus about Dill running from his house. Also how he separates himself from Dill and

Maybe it's more important to be appreciated than to be wealthy. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945) is one of the most unique of all of the Nobel Prize winning novels. Cannery Row is set in a very poor area of California known as Monterey. It is a small port town south of San Francisco. The time era is post Depression and World War II. The novel is about how lower class people with warm hearts have the ability to create their own heaven on earth. The novel starts out with a group of people known as Mack and the boys. None of these men have jobs, and they all live in a small shack at the end of town. Mack and the boys want to do something nice for their loving friend Doc. Doc is a

When Jerry swam to the bottom he found a hole to the other side, he was easily scared when a piece of seaweed touched his lips, it seems Jerry is eager to see the other side but at the same time he's not. He had practiced holding his breath for long strands of time, the local boys were doing it so Jerry thought he would do, but consequences came with it for he got terrible bloody noses that made him dizzy. He had swam back to the hole and in the process of doing so he had ran out of oxygen and lost conscience and floated back up to where he had started in the first place, his mom had said “Well, I shouldn’t overdo it. I don’t think you ought to swim anymore

John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel Of Mice and Men, has characters who face the same problems American teenagers do today. Like George and Lenny, teenagers, today, have friendships in the book; people have that close relationships with other people who help them make it through in real life. Teens also feel the emptiness and loneliness that they experience in the book as well. Teenagers are always looking for something, just like the characters in the book were looking for a farm of their own.

The clearing into which Lennie and George meander summons Eden in its quietness and excellence. Steinbeck carefully opens the novella with this pure scene, for it makes a foundation for the admired kinship between the men and presents the romanticized dream of ranch life that they share. The opening pages build up a feeling of virtue and flawlessness that the world which will end up being coldblooded and savage, can't manage. Steinbeck additionally decidedly sets up the connection amongst George and Lennie inside the initial couple of pages of exchange. Their discourse is that of uneducated workers, yet is sincerely rich and frequently melodious.

“The greatest writers and the best readers know that literature is not always mere sugar candy;it can sometimes be a strong medicine:sour perhaps-at least to the untrained taste - but necessary for continued health” (1). A statement written by Professor Thomas Scarseth shows how without value in books, a reading life would never reach its intended purpose. By learning to apply knowledge that books provide through characters, we can improve ourselves as individuals. This particular book, Of Mice and Men, has values such as linguistics, sociological value, and historical value. Linguistics are shown through Steinbeck’s use of poetic devices such as imagery and repetition. Sociological value is given through the perspective of Crooks, who shows the struggle of achieving the great American Dream of having a place to call your own. Finally, historical value is provided through racism and how it affected Crooks, or any other black man at the time.

“Yet, walking down the path with her, he blurted out, ‘I’d like to go and have a look at those rocks down there,’’ (Lessing 1). During the short story, “Through the Tunnel,” Lessing shows that Jerry has an interest in breaking away from his mother early on in the story. He shows a passion for wanting to go to the wild bay, instead of staying with his mother at the safe beach for their vacation. Jerry’s transformation from boy to a young man is revealed in the settings of the safe beach, wild bay, and the journey through the tunnel.

Charles le Chien; a bleu gentleman poodle who prefers a negotiation over any conflict. Born in Paris, France, Charley was trained and eventually brought into Steinbeck’s life. These companions later travel around America while trying to answer the question “What are Americans like today?” With only his necessities and Charley, Steinbeck began his long, overwhelming journey across America. In Travels with Charley, Steinbeck is greatly influenced by Charley and his actions.

Then Jerry looks up and sees that the source of light is not the end of the tunnel, but only a crack in the rock. Hopeful terms are used to describe the break in the stone. “Sunlight,” typically associated with warmth, life, and comfort, falls through it, illuminating the “clean” rock of the tunnel, and as Jerry gazes he sees a single mussel shell, the only sign on life in the tunnel. Ahead of him is “darkness,” but that is his only way out, although he thinks he has reached “the end of what he could

In the story Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing, an 11 year old boy named Jerry went on a vacation with his widowed mother. They have a hard time giving each other range and separation causing Jerry to feel guilty at first when he goes to the bay. But Jerry decided to go to the bay and saw older boys undress and dive off a tall cliff into the water. They stayed under for a long time and Jerry got worried he later found out that there is a long tunnel under the water and they were swimming through it. It became Jerry’s goal to get through that tunnel, so everyday he would go to the bay and practice holding his breath.