Queena Many believe that setting a clear goal is the key to success. But the fact is‚ goals can help you; they don’t even belong to you. Your characteristics and qualities are the genuine forces that can really make you successful. In the story‚ “Through the Tunnel”‚ it is Jerry’s own persistence and dignity that help him reach his goal. His persistence made him keep going while his own dignity helped him to make up his mind. If it weren’t for his persistence and dignity‚ he would not have reached his
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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
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theme of maturation by creating a mixtape of the development and evolution of music from 900 AD to 2014 b I also chose to explore the metaphors Doris Lessing used in his short story Through the Tunnel by using symbols in a film (such as a day to night to day time lapse to represent Jerry going through the tunnel) to represent the metaphors that were used in the story. c I also chose to investigate the use of imagery. In my film I used mountains represents a conflict that must be overcome like
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“Through the tunnel” The calm beach is a place for kids to jerry but‚ the wild bay grows him up and the tunnel show him death above all. The older boys/teen boys have shown jerry a need to grow himself up. Jerry see each of the boys run and jump into the water. The he tries to jump like they so did. With more and more jumps the older boys go into a cave of beauty and lots of danger. Jerrys thinks‚” wow they have been under the water for so long”! 110‚ 111‚ 112‚ 113‚ 114‚ and 115. “Are they dying
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Through the Tunnel The writer makes Jerry out to be abit of a loner with no or a little amount of friends‚ desperate for the attention and approval of other and not really enjoying the company of his mother. The writer shows this by Jerry having a negative attitude to his mum‚ by making Jerry cry when the bigger teenage kids ignore him when he is trying so hard to get them to pay attention and accept him. Jerry makes faces towards his mother because he doesn’t really want to hang around with
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Literary Analysis of Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel” Throughout life‚ certain events may lead up to a point of maturity or jump start one’s gradual coming of age. In Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel‚” the idea that certain circumstances cause the development of maturity is exemplified through a young‚ English child named Jerry. Lessing uses symbolism and Jerry’s conflict to augment the story’s theme --coming of age. Throughout the story‚ Lessing uses symbolism to corroborate the theme of coming
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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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Maturity Looking at the word maturity from society’s perspective‚ what it means is to become an adult‚ to be a man or a woman instead of a boy or a girl‚ or to simply be old enough to attend the screening of an R-rated movie. But the actual meaning of being mature goes beyond turning 18 years old. Becoming Mature means gaining the ability to manage your self‚ knowing how to handle certain situations and thinking of the consequences of your actions. My mother always told me‚ maturity is defined
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something different. If one were to look it up in the nearest dictionary‚ they would find that it is defined as “full development”. Full development of what‚ one may ask? This leads to different types of maturity branching out; physical‚ emotional and social‚ each with its own definition. Physical maturity is perhaps the most obvious type. At a certain stage in every person’s life‚ they will suddenly experience sudden changes that lead to them blossoming into an adult body. For girls‚ to their dismay
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“Through the Tunnel” A risk that almost takes a life In the story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing‚ there is a boy whose name is Jerry. He is a big mamma’s boy. In the story he goes away from his mama‚ and into the bay with his friends. Jerry and his friends in the bay find an underwater tunnel‚ and they all swam through except Jerry‚ but Jerry takes a dangerous risk. Then Jerry shows that he has matured because at the beginning of the story he really only talks and stays by his mom and now
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