Positive Influences In 'Through The Tunnel'

Positive Influences in Stories Positive influences help people understand problems and motive them into solve them. Writers know of these positive influences and use them as a literary elements in their stories. Writers such as Doris Lessing, David Raymond, and William Nolen use positive influences when creating their characters and generating a moral for the story. “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing tells the story about a young boy named Jeremy who tries to prove to himself and the foreign boys that he could swim through the tunnel, he works on training his body to breathe underwater and after a long day goes into the comfort of his mother. Another story that displays positive influences is “On Being Seventeen, Bright, and Unable to Read” by David Raymond. It tells the story of a boy living with dyslexia. He had been teased and made fun off all through his life and he came to the conclusion that he was dumb. People understood what he was going though and he changed as time grew. He learned how to use his disability as a strength over a disability. “The First
Appendectomy” by William A. Nolen tells the story of a doctor. When preparing for his first appendectomy was prideful and prepared for this Surgery. As the story led on in the preparation room he had began to feel nervous and anxious about his first appendectomy. The external pressures positively influence the character in stories such as “Through the Tunnel”, “On Being Seventeen, Bright, and Unable to Read”, and “The First Appendectomy.” In “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing there are many positive influences shown in this story, one of these influences is when he saw the boys jumping off the cliff into the water. He wanted to belong with these boys, ”To be with them, of them, was a craving that filled his whole body. He swam a little closer; they turned and watched him with narrowed, alert dark eyes. Then one smiled and waved. It was enough. In a minute, he had swum in and was on the rocks beside them, smiling with a desperate, nervous supplication. They shouted cheerful greetings at him; and then, as he preserved his nervous, uncomprehending smile, they understood that he was a foreigner strayed from his own beach, and they proceeded to forget him. But he was happy. He was with them” (Lessing 377). This display the feeling that Jeremy wanted to be included and show he proved to his foreign friends he could do things and they welcomed him for his skill. He strived to show these strangers what he could to and gained a positive includes that made him strive to be better. In “On Being Seventeen, Bright, and Unable to Read” by David Raymond shows positive influence. An examples is when David in class and his teacher is trying to motivate him to read and understand words that he could not comprehend, “Sometimes my teachers would try to be encouraging. When I couldn't read the words on the board, they'd say, ‘Come on, David, you know that word” (Raymond 573). This shows that the teachers wanted to motivate david even though they knew that it did not make much of a difference and just made him upset. He felt that it was hard to know what the teachers had felt about him. He was mad that they just made him feel stupid but, they still motivated him into reading and to decrease his disability and overcome it. In “The First Appendectomy” by William A.
Nolen many positive influences are shown. The strongest positive influence is when the doctors are in the E.R. and the training doctor is doing the surgery. The support doctor is helping the William with the surgery by motivating him and giving him the strength to complete the surgery,. “Now cut off the appendix.’ at least in this, the definitive act of operation, I would be decisive, took the knife and with one quick slash cut through the appendix-to close to the ligature. ‘Oh oh, watch it,’ said george. ‘That tie is going to slip.’ It did. The appendiceal stump lay there, open. I felt faint. ‘Don’t panic,’ said george. “we’ve still got the purse string…’two more knots,’ said george. ‘Just to be safe” (Nolen 353). George Walter kept the doctor safe and wanted him to succeed in the surgery. He motivated him and give him helpful hints about the
surgery. The external pressures positively influence the characters in stories such as “Through the Tunnel”, “On Being Seventeen, Bright, and Unable to Read”, and “The First Appendectomy.” In these stories all character faces a problem that was overwhelming and hard to overcome.In “Through the Tunnel”,Jeremy wanted to be included and show he proved to his foreign friends he could do things and they welcomed him for his skill. He wanted to show these strangers what he could to do and gained a positive motivation that made him strive to be better. In “On Being Seventeen, Bright, and Unable to Read” the teachers wanted to motivate david even though she knew that it did not make much of a difference and just made him upset, She still felt that it gave a david a positive influence. In “The First Appendectomy” George Walter kept the doctor safe and wanted him to succeed in the surgery. He motivated him and give him helpful hints about the surgery. He gave him a feeling of support throughout the surgery and positively influenced the physician He felt that it was hard to know what the teachers had felt about him. These characters got motivational pressure to succeed for the external world. All people strive through life and want to prevail and they get help from other people though motivational pressure.