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The short story Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing is full of symbolism about the transition out of childhood. Doris accomplishes this by writing about a young boy named Jerry and his journey swimming through the tunnel. During this difficult transition the main character gains the tools he will need during adulthood. Lessing uses symbolism abundantly in Through the Tunnel to emphasize on the theme of the transition from childhood to adulthood. In the exposition, Jerry and his mother are on vacation

she wrote the short story, “Through the Tunnel,” which is one of her famous stories. At “the crowded beach” (Lessing 1), Jerry, the young English boy, and his widowed mother take a holiday. They have enjoyed their holidays on the beach for many years, but this year, he is interested in “a wild and rocky bay” (Lessing 1) near the beach and goes there for the first time. He encounters some boys who seem to be older than him there. They go through a long tunnel underwater with breath lasting long. However

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.

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

“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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“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

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

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

“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