Right Of Passage In Doris Lessing's Through The Tunnel

His mom and him went to the beach for vacation and Jerry went to this rocky wild looking beach to be away from his mom to act independent where his mom is at the regular sand beach. When he got there he was kind of scared so he went back by his mom at the regular beach. But one day he went to the rocky area to find a few foreign boys and he wanted to make friends with them by impressing them. The foreign boys liked him because he was good at diving so they thought he would be fun to hang out since he was a good swimmer like them. But there was this tunnel which was one of the main conflicts. He did not know to swim the tunnel because he had to hold his breathe for about two minutes. He swam through some of it and thought if he should go back but he said I am too far into it to turn back, but he made it alive. Jerry learned that taking a risk like that was a bad idea especially since his mom wasn’t by

In the short story "Through the Tunnel", Doris Lessing describes the adventure of Jerry, a young English boy trying to swim through an underwater tunnel.  Throughout the story, the author uses the third person omniscient point of view to describe the boy's surroundings and to show us both what he and the other characters are thinking and what is happening around them.  By using this point of view, the author is able to describe the setting of the story, give a detailed description of the characters, and make the theme visible.

“The Swimmer,” a short fiction by John Cheever, presents a theme to the reader about the unavoidable changes of life. The story focuses on the round character by the name of Neddy Merrill who is in extreme denial about the reality of his life. He has lost his youth, wealth, and family yet only at the end of the story does he develop the most by experiencing a glimpse of realization on all that he has indeed lost. In the short story “The Swimmer,” John Cheever uses point of view, setting and symbolism to show the value of true relationships and the moments of life that are taken for granted.

In life, one must overcome their fears in order to achieve or successfully attain a certain goal in their mind. The short story “Through the Tunnel”, by Doris Lessing tells us about how Jerry builds confidence and maturity throughout the story, by overcoming his fear of going through the dark and scary tunnel underneath the water. The author portrays the idea of overcoming one’s fear to achieve a goal through Jerry, who was once a childish and isolated character, had begun his risky adventure of going through the tunnel to prove his worth to a group of boys and along the way discovers what he truly wants. Over time he becomes more mature and in the end, gain self-acceptance.

The epic journey of “The Old Man and the Sea” describes struggle, discipline and manhood. The main characters relationships exemplify how faith and skill overcome man’s adversity during life on the sea. Santiago’s growing relationship with the boy idealizes his statute as a father figure and develops his integrity and values towards the boy. Hemmingway shows us how an old fisherman’s will to overcome the sea’s obstacles proves his manhood to himself and the young boy. His skills and knowledge of the sea provide a positive influence for the young boy to become a great fisherman someday.

The settings are important in a story because they tell where and when the story takes place. A reader should always focus on the setting, so he will not get lost in the story. In Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel,” the story focuses on a boy named Jerry trying to accomplish something very difficult while his mother wants him to stay safe. He sees some boys swimming through a challenging tunnel and he tries to go through the tunnel to impress them in order to become friends with them. The setting in “Through the Tunnel” has an impact on the characters, the plot, and the symbols.

Her use of the diving story really allowed her to express her experience with her mother without the reader feeling unable to relate, the fact that these events happened directly to her gave her whole argument more power due to the fact that she is able to say she did that first hand and she felt guilt prior to the events, and her appeal to emotion allowed her to give the reader a glimpse of the regret she felt thinking back on the whole experience. It is very challenging to think back on painful events and critique what one did wrong, Hopes essay urges the reader to try overcome their challenges so they won’t be able to share the same feeling as regret as she

Jerry seems to be a typical freshman, in a period of experimentation—trying out for the team, dreaming about girls, reading “girlie magazines,” but he also appears to be a dazed and confused one. He is “stunned by his mother’s recent death and by the way his father sleepwalks through life.”

Through this insightful book, we see Mark Drolsbaugh?s struggles to survive underwater, and we eventually emerge from the sea and breathe fresh air with him as he finds the wisdom, courage, and skills necessary to treasure both land and sea.

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Daniel James Brown manages to awe and inspire readers in his book The Boys in the Boat, which describes the hardships a row crew from Washington underwent to make it to the 1936 Olympics. The story of the nine rowers on the Washington crew teaches lessons about inner confidence, trust, dedication, and the hope that can be found during even the most difficult times. I learned while reading that being the underdog doesn’t mean you’re destined to fail. Readers see that despite the hardships and many disadvantages the Washington crew faced, their dedication allowed them to beat the odds and inspire an entire nation.

A part of maturing is finally doing things independently without the supervision from parents. In her short story, “Through the Tunnel”, Doris Lessing conveys the concept of maturing through becoming self-sufficient. Lessing uses characterization and symbolism to show that being self-reliant is a part of growing up.

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

Ernest Hemingway uses the characters in The Old Man and the Sea to demonstrate how perseverance is necessary for survival. After battling with the fish for several days, Santiago wishes the circumstances could be different: “‘Be patient, hand,’ he said. ‘I do this for you.’

In the short coming of age story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, the author utilizes peer pressure to show the fear of growing up. In the beginning of the story, the bay represents freedom to Jerry. “He went out fast over the gleaming sand, over a middle region where rocks lay like discolored monsters under the surface, and then he was in the real sea—a warm sea where irregular cold currents from the deep water shocked his limbs.”(Lessing) Being out alone in the middle of a dangerous bay makes Jerry feel more mature than when they arrived to the vacation. The reader feels happy for Jerry. Later in the story, he finds out that the supposedly alone bay has other visitors, foreign boys who clearly have been there before. We know that they've been there before because