Jerry's Through The Tunnel

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Have you ever proven something, what was the purpose of it? To prove something means that you are capable of doing something. People do so for various purposes, such as to pass a test or to get in a job. Most people feel the need to prove their strength, endurance, or maturity, at one time or the other, in order to satisfy themselves or to create admiration from other people to themselves. A story character, Jerry, wanted to prove his maturity to himself in an attempt to fulfill his personal goal. In the story Through the Tunnel, Jerry, an eleven years old boy, desired to play with the older boys since he was alone at the beach. At first everything went fine and Jerry dove graciously with them. Later on Jerry got rejected because of his

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Jerry's Struggle In Through The Tunnel

In Through The Tunnel Doris Lessing develops the growth risk and struggle.Through the use of Jerry, mom, and the beach. Jerry´s mom would rather see jerry be safe at the beach because is much safer for Jerry to be at then the bay. Jerrys mom is overprotective because she does not want Jerry to get hurt she wants to let him go but she does not want to see him get hurt and Jerry wants to listen to his mom because he does not want to let his mom down and with no communication Jerry has to rely…

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Maturity In Doris Lessing's Through The Tunnel

An unknown author once said, “Maturity comes when you stop making excuses and start making changes.” This is exactly what happens in the short story Through the Tunnel. In the story, Jerry, an eleven year old boy, must face hardships to become an adolescent. He would like to swim through a tunnel at the bottom of the sea, so he stops making excuses and gets right to work, focusing on the “holding-one’s-breath” portion of the training. Although at first glance this may seem like a very straightforward…

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Protagonist: Courage and Eleven-year-old Jerry Changes Essay

people are so determined that they risk their lives in order to achieve their goals. Jerry, the protagonist in the short story is called Through the Tunnel by Daris Lessing. He faces a strong personal challenge during his beach vacation. The eleven-year-old Jerry changes his personality during his adventure. The challenges of diving through the tunnel change Jerry's character. He turns from cowardly to brave, overprotected to independent, and childish to mature, the adventure changes his personality…

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Through The Tunnel Character Analysis

In Doris Lessing's "Through the Tunnel," an eleven-year-old boy named Jerry goes on vacation go a beach with his mother. When Jerry and his mother get there they go to the beach so Jerry can go swimming. When Jerry is in the water swimming he see some boys on a rock. Jerry see the boys diving off the rock so he yells at then and tries to get there attention. Then one day Jerry try's diving off the rock and when he dives he see A tunnel in the water so he dives and dives until he can hold his breath…

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Coming Of Age

Fortunately, he perseveres onwards and finally passes through the exit of the tunnel. Afterward, he saw the boys playing in the water about a half mile away and the narrator describes his feelings as “He did not want them”. He wanted nothing but to get back home and lie down” (Lessing 40). Jerry is not the same boy he was before he went through the tunnel. Before, he wanted to prove that he could do it to impress the boys who also did it, but in the end…

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Essay on Lesson 11

Winston Churchill gave during his address to the First Army. In the story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing, Jerry, an English boy, attempts to swim through an underwater tunnel despite his fear of failure. The series of event’s Jerry experiences deeply affects him externally and internally, that propelled him to a decision that greatly refines him. Lessing uses symbolism to dramatically affect the plot of the story. Accordingly, Lessing uses the “tunnel” Jerry attempts to swim through as a symbol of his transition from childhood to adulthood…

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A Long Way Gone Analysis

Is it true? Could two unalike stories have the same themes? The story “Through The Tunnel” has a relation to “A Long Way Gone” other than it's a story, they both contain the same themes. The two stories contain the same themes, just with a different opinion on those themes. “A Long Way Gone” is a memoir of survival, “Through The Tunnel” is a story about a boy on a beach. The themes in relation are Acceptance, Goals, Hope. In “A Long Way Gone” the main character Ishmael, is to face up too many challenges…

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Through The Tunnel Symbolism

In the story "Through the Tunnel," by Doris Lessing, an eleven year old boy named Jerry, goes on vacation to a safe and wild beach. He is very immature, before deciding to swim through the tunnel. An example of symbolism is that after Jerry swam through the tunnel, he became more mature. Jerry's childish behavior came before taking the challenge of swimming through the tunnel. An immature scene would be when Jerry wanted some swimming goggles. He had to have them right then and there, due to the…

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Summary Of Through The Tunnel By Dorris Lessing

In the story through the tunnel by Dorris Lessing a boy named Jerry went to the beach with his mother . At this beach their is a safe beach and a wild beach . Located on the wild beach is a tunnel witch the older boys swim threw. Jerry's action of swimming threw this tunnel made him more mature then he previously was. Before he became mature after he swam threw the tunnel. He was a normal childish 11 year old boy. For example: "began splashing & kicking in the water like a dog" only little kids…

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Protagonist Initiation In Doris Lessing's Through The Tunnel

Protagonist Initiation In the story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing the protagonist, Jerry is initiated into a group. Jerry wants to be like the older kids that were diving into the bay and swimming through the hole at the bottom of the water. At first he begins diving into the water and tried to get the boys attention. He got their attention but they frowned. So Jerry noticed the boys were swimming through a gap, or hole. Jerry tried to do the same to get their attention again but he failed…

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