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    Tunnels can be strange for some people, but seeing a tunnel at the bottom of the ocean is very strange for Jerry. Jerry is on a vacation with his mother and goes out every morning to the rocks diving and swimming with the older kids throughout the day. Doris lessing describes Jerry as a kid who challenges himself against a strange looking tunnel in her story “Through The Tunnel” through the use of symbolism in the setting, the trip through the tunnel and the wild bay.

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    Throught the tunnel, a story that has multiple symbolic statements, the most important one , the tunnel. This story tells us about a boy who We could say blood was spilt that day at thee bay. “-his nose bled so badly that he turned dizzy and had to lie limply over the big rock like a bit of seaweed,” (382). Blood in this story and in every other story symbolizes effort, risk, warning, caution. Jerry went through a lot of practice and training to get to the stage where he can hold his breath for

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    “Through the Tunnel” In the story, “Through the Tunnel,” internal conflict is depicted as a clear and comprehensible literary device. On numerous occasions throughout the story, Jerry is faced with multiple challenges in which he endured mentally and physically. He contemplated on whether he should have remained with his mother, he wondered if he could fit in with the older boys, and he longed to swim through the tunnel. Through the precarious attempts of Jerry, "Through the Tunnel" demonstrates

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    which have an estimated price elasticity of demand of -3 to -4, will flock to the lower price and will unlikely ever return to the higher priced provider. Paired with other factors valued by the truckers, it is likely that a low price offer from the tunnel would quickly make it the first choice in channel crossing among truckers themselves as well as trucking companies. Eurotunnel will be able to support the increase in customers as well as the market-penetration pricing strategy. Eurotunnel currently

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    Through The Tunnel

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    “Through the Tunnel”, written in the early 50’s by Doris Lessing, is a short story filled with literary devices that create a coming of age story. On the surface, the story is about a boy named Jerry, an eleven-year-old boy, who is being raised by his widowed mother. They are on vacation on a beach at their usual annual spot. Jerry is faced with a challenge he desperately wants to overcome, by any means necessary. Doris Lessing uses symbolism and bildungsroman to portray the theme of coming of age

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    Through The Tunnel

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    This is what Jerry does. In “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, Jerry takes a dangerous risk by going through this tunnel underwater near the bay. He sees some boys going through it and decides he wants to try it as well. Once he goes through this tunnel, he comes out different. Jerry is a believable character because he takes a risk to feel acceptance, independence, and maturity. One of the things Jerry felt after he went through the underwater tunnel, is acceptance. At the beginning of the story

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    Through The Tunnel

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    Through the Tunnel by Dorris Lessing is a short story about a boy named Jerry, who vacations with his widow mother to a beach and on his own, faces an obstacle of passing through a tunnel as an act of proving himself worthy. Jerry overcomes this challenge by spending his vacation preparing himself through sheer determination, “On the day before they left, he would do it. He would do it if it killed him, he said defiantly to himself”(Lessing 206). Lessing’s choice of setting in the book, the tunnel, the

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    In Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel”, Lessing uses imagery in order to show the audience that the transition from childhood to adulthood is a quest in itself. Lessing reveals that Jerry’s quest isn’t just to swim at the bay, but is to become a man by suggesting that swimming through the tunnel represents manhood and to become like the boys at the bay who Jerry idolizes as being men. It is evident that Lessing incorporates explicit overtones into her writing because in the text “It’s All About

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    “Experience which destroys innocence, Also leads one back to it.” From James Arthur baldwin “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst and “The Tunnel” By Doris Lessing both present two characters that attempted to benefit themselves and as a result they experience a transformation from Innocence to awareness. The narrator in “The Scarlet Ibis” has a brother that goes by the name of Doodle. Doodle was not expected to live long and his dad even buys him a coffin because he was born very sickly but miraculously

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    TLS=10m); (2) CFD LES at location 7 (TI=30%, TLS=15m); (3) CFD LES at location 3 (TI=25%, TLS=10m). The results of mean and peak pressure distribution over the roof surface for each cases are compared with full-scale field measurements and wind tunnel data within the next sub-sections accordingly. Comparison of Mean and Peak Pressure Coefficients Figure 13 represents the counters of mean surface pressure coefficients for full-scale CFD

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