Rebellious Describe the relationship between Jerry and his mother and how it affects his swimming.
Cared for each other Describe the relationship between Jerry and his mother and how it affects his swimming.
Jerry eventually left to be an adult Describe the relationship between Jerry and his mother and how it affects his swimming.
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Jerry’s relationship with his mother complicates his desire to swim through the tunnel in more than one way. The first way is that Jerry is rebellious to his mother at points in the story. Another reason is that Jerry …show more content…
Typically a mother and son do care for each other but, when one of them wants to do something that the other does not want them to do like when Jerry wants to keep training for his swim but his mom wants him to take a break from swimming, the situation is complicated because they care for each others feelings. We know that they care for each other when he is sad that he left his mom to walk alone on the beach and he has to stop himself from running after her (page 358). Jerry’s relationship with his mother is also complicated when Jerry decides to leave his mother for the dangerous rocky bay. He “leaves his mother” by deciding to go to adventure the unfamiliar rocks. When Jerry and his mother usually used to go to the beach they would hang around the safe sandy beach area, but now that Jerry has discovered the new rocky bay he now goes to this bay alone instead of the beach with his mom. Jerry and his mother's relationship is very complicated, for many reasons. Even though Jerry and his mother have a complicated relationship they are still mother and son, so naturally they will be able to work things out with each other. I think their relationship is very relate able to many other