English Period 11 10/20/13 Task 1 In the selection‚ “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing‚ a young English boy called Jerry struggles with his dependence on others. At the beginning of the story‚ Jerry is dependent on his mother. For example‚ when he goes to explore the promontory rocks‚ he keeps looking back for his mother. “When he was so far out that he could look back not only on the little bay but past the promontory that was between it and the big beach‚ he floated on the buoyant surface
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desperately might never come. Little by little the years worked their slow poison. And then finally one heat-laden afternoon‚ without even realizing what she had done‚ Mary Turner lit the fuse that led to a shattering explosion of violence and tragedy. Doris Lessing’s novel is a remarkable piece of work. At times as violent and harsh as the brown earth and arching blue sky of the veldt‚ The Grass Is Singing is mercilessly penetrating and casts a spell all its won. At times‚ too‚ it is angry at the festering
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Max Lerner once said “The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.” Doris Lessing illustrates this point in her short story‚ “Through the Tunnel.” In the short story‚ Jerry‚ a young‚ English boy‚ finds himself by overcoming the obstacles of adolescence. As the story opens‚ readers learn that Jerry‚ who is on vacation with his mother‚ is eleven years old--a time during which many boys begin to distance themselves from their
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celebration. It is those moments that may alter or influence the dreams we once had. “A Sunrise on the Veld” by Doris Lessing‚ portrays the human experience of a young man that changes his perspective of life and its purpose. He comes to realize that there are some things in life we cannot control and as unpredictable life is‚ everything happens for a reason. We can analyze the story of Doris Lessing and his theme that life is uncontrollable through three elements‚ setting in early morning African veld‚
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Book Report: The Golden Notebook Meg 1011325 The author Doris May Lessing is a British writer. Her novels include The Golden Notebook‚ The Golden Notebook‚ and five other novels collectively known as Canopus in Academy. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience‚ who with skepticism‚ fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny". She was also the eleventh woman and the
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not only by her parental impulses but the loss of her husband. On the first day of the trip‚ the child already has an urge to dive into the salty waters of the ocean. All day "as he played on the salty beach... he was thinking of [the wild bay]" (Lessing 76) yet he restrained himself. The only reason why he was restraining himself from diving into the deep ocean was his conscience in going against his mother. While his mother was not a physically a barrier she was still nonetheless an obstacle for
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Group Minds is a very interesting and informative piece. Author Doris Lessing does a very good job trying to inform people about what is wrong with groups changing your opinion‚ and the idea that we do not use the information we have to improve ourselves. She offers a lot of good information‚ including an experiment that adds to her opinion about social groups. The author does a really good job getting her point across throughout the paper. "When were in a group‚ we tend to think as that group
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significant topic among academic scholars. Writer Doris Lessing points out the negative effects that group mind can have on our society. Jonah Lehrer also indicates that group mind and power can be damaging to our community. Furthermore‚ David Brooks argues that group mind can be detrimental to the way people view just authority figures. These scholars have described group mind and its effects on society and authority in different ways. For example‚ Lessing‚ the author of “Group Minds‚” says it is dangerous
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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
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the limits and explain some things in a whole new different way. The author Doris Lessing uses this type of figurative language in her story “Through the Tunnel”. This is particularly evident in the settings such as the beach‚ the bay and the tunnel‚ which represent different stages in life. The beach is the first setting presented in the story. This represents Jerry´s or anyone´s childhood. This is illustrated when Doris states‚ “Once he saw that his mother had gained her beach‚ he began the steep
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